Wood Panelling
Panelling in wood-work is not only legitimate, but structurally necessary, as it is not practical to cover large areas except by some method of building up.
Therefore, not only panelling, but doors and structural wood-work generally are constructed of stiles
No. 139. Panel Mouldings in Wood.
A. Late Linen-fold Panel, with scribed mouldings on stiles and rails.
B. C. Panels of Settleback and Chest, with framing with simple moulded edges.
D. Early Jacobean Panelling, with stopped mouldings on stiles and rails.
E. Later Jacobean Panelling.
F. Later Jacobean Section of applied mouldings of the Bolection type.
and rails, forming framings; the spaces enclosed being occupied by the panels.
The edges of the stiles and rails are moulded. In the late Gothic and Tudor periods the mouldings were often simply scribed; but later the profiles became more distinct in contour.
These early mouldings were narrow and simple in form, arrived at mainly by softening or rounding the square edges of the frame.