Starting with the basics, this manual offers a course on repairing and restoring all types of furniture, from raising a dent to turning a chair leg. It includes an easy-to-use guide to identifying and dating your furniture as well as a directory of the tools, materials and equipment necessary to restore furniture yourself. Skills covered include turning, carving, upholstery, marbling, gilding, marquetry and parquetry. Each of the four chapters ends with one or two projects that encompass many of the techniques described in that chapter and each stage of restoration is shown in step-by-step format, from assessment of the damage to final polishing.
- ISBN10 0754806626
- ISBN13 9780754806622
- Publish Date 28 January 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Anness Publishing
- Imprint Lorenz Books
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English