 | John Starkie Gardner - 1914 - 310 páginas
...Side by side with the foliated hinges were others of plainer scrollwork, and scrolls and fleur-de-lis were often mingled in the designs with the foliage,...management requires skill and dexterity. The distinction betwen the blacksmith's art and any other is that, whatever he intends to do he must do quickly. He... | |
 | Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne - 1915 - 336 páginas
...by heat; and as it softens, bars will droop and curl into scrolls under a relatively slight impulse, this property rendering it so facile a metal in the...pieces adhering firmly together if hammered or pressed; rich and intricate effects were mainly produced in this manner-: ' The welding point is the highest... | |
 | William Francklyn Paris - 1917 - 374 páginas
...relatively slight effort, this property making of it an obedient metal in the hands of the smiths. When hot it can be welded, separate pieces adhering firmly together if hammered or pressed. The rich intricate effects apparent in the work of Bisconet were produced by this means. The thirteenth-century... | |
 | William Francklyn Paris - 1917 - 368 páginas
...relatively slight effort, this property making of it an obedient metal in the hands of the smiths. When hot it can be welded, separate pieces adhering firmly together if hammered or pressed. The rich intricate effects apparent in the work of Bisconet were produced by this means. The thirteenth-century... | |
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... The close of the thirteenth century marks, roughly speaking, the end of a period which we may properly define as that of genuine blacksmithing. The texture of iron, it is well known, becomes loosened by heat, and, as it softens, bars will droop and... 