Ironwork, Parte1H.M. Stationery Office, 1914 |
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Página 112 - And therout came a rage and swiche a vise, That it made all the gates for to rise. The northern light in at the dore shone ; For window, on the wall, ne was ther none, Thurgh which men mighten any light discerne. The dore was all of athamant eterne ; Yclenched, overthwart and endelong, With yren tough. And, for to make it strong, Every piler the temple to sustene Was tonne-gret, of yren bright and shene.
Página 13 - This they take out, and giving it a few strokes with their sledges, they carry it to a great weighty hammer, raised likewise by the motion of a Water-wheel; where applying it dexterously to the blows, they presently beat it into a thick short square. This they put into the Finery again...
Página 92 - The vine, as used in smithing, is indeed a Protean plant, and were it not that the fruit and tendrils are so often introduced, it would at times pass beyond our powers of recognition. Side by side with the foliated hinges were others of plainer scrollwork, and scrolls and fleurs-de-lis were often mingled in the designs with the foliage, which in time developed new characters. The close of the thirteenth century marks, roughly speaking, the end of a period which we may properly define as that of genuine...
Página 13 - ... the shape of a bar in the middle, with two square knobs in the ends. Last of all, they give it other heatings in the chafery, and more workings under the hammer, till they have brought their iron into bars of several shapes and sizes; in which fashion they expose them to sale.
Página 92 - Lichfield, and York, could have been made in one prolonged tour; the small hinges at Chester could have been sent by road ; and the work at Westminster involved, as we know, a special journey, for which the smith was paid his expenses. All the work has certain characteristics in common : thus it is all formed of easy scrolls, flowing one from the other, and which rarely...
Página 92 - Museum, and the one by which we are enabled to approximately date the rest, and to attribute them with certainty to an English smith, is the Eleanor grille or herse in Westminster Abbey. The records show that this was made by Thomas of Leghtone, in 1294, at a cost of ^13, a sum equalling ^180 of our money.
Página 34 - Alexandrian period ; whilst the peculiar keys and knives found in the fortner he considered not to be older than the fifth century BC Excavations in Cyprus also confirm the existence of a copper or bronze age, when iron was unknown. We glean from Homer that its use was exceptional, the most remarkable of the objects mentioned being the mace of Areithous and the arrow of Pandarus, both, significantly enough, presents from the gods ; the axletree of Juno's chariot, regarded as a unique object ; the...
Página 128 - The canopy is carried by four clustered columns, supporting four cusped arches converging to a centre. \Yhat might be termed the roof of the canopy is a tangle of interlacing branches and leaves, intended probably for the vine, and a conventional flower which both droops to form- pendants and soars upward into pinnacles. The whole is crowned by the figure of Salvius Brabo, in Roman costume, holding aloft a spear and the hand of the giant Antigonus, and the springing of the arches is masked by four...
Página 92 - ... own hand. Hence old ironwork possesses interest and attractions which few modern examples can equal, for scarcely any old piece fails to please. The explanation is simply that the olden-time smith cut a piece from his shingled bar which he judged by the eye would beat out into a rod of the desired length or curl into a scroll of the desired form. More or less sufficed for him, and by his method of work he produced an irregularity and play in even the most monotonous designs, which is artistically...
Página 92 - In the work we have described, small objects such as hinges, however complicated in design, were nearly always welded into a single piece, while in grilles the several pieces were fixed by driving holes through the heated iron and riveting them together, or more commonly by binding the pieces round with hot wisps of iron called collars. In appreciating...