A Manual of Wood Carving

by Charles Godfrey Leland; John J. Holtzapffel

• Gable ornaments, [151]
• Garden-work, [143]
• Gardens, window, [129]
• Gates, carving, [143]
• Gelatine as a preservative, [107]
• Gelatine glue, [109]
• German furniture, [124]
• Gibbons, Grinling, his work, [75]
• Gibson, Mr. J. S., his “Wood-Carver” quoted, [8]
• Gilding, [141], [155].
• See also under Finishing.
• Glass, and glass-paper, for finishing, [64], [66]
• Glue, making and use of, [105], [108];
• acidulated and liquid, [106], [108], [109]
• Gothic wood-carving, [40]
• Gouge lines, [20];
• work, [22]
• Gouges, [3], [4], [10]
• Grain, cutting with the, [44]
• Greek, ancient, work, [47]
• Grindstones, etc., [12]
• Grooving, [2], [22]
• Grotesque, the, v. the commonplace, [140]
• Ground punches, [16], [17]
• Grounds, cutting, [34]

• Hammer beam, [154]
• Handles of tools, [11];
• for drawers, [145];
• Swedish, [154]
• Hand screws, [5], [7]
• Hanging boxes, [63], [132]
• Heads and legs, in ornament, [151]
• Holdfasts, or clamps, [5], [44], [94]
• Hollow gouge, the, [5]
• Holtzapffel, Mr. John J., on the Use of the Saw in wood-carving, [83]
• Hood moulding, [154]
• Hooker, Sir Joseph, [107]
• Horn, how to colour, [94];
• how to soften, [95]
• Horns, carving, [93], [128]
• House, outside ornament of the, [139]
• Hulme, works of, [101]

• Imitation of old work, etc., [64]
• Implements. See Tools, etc.
• Impost, [154]
• Incised work, [86]
• Incitega, [150]
• Indenting, or stamping, [2], [15]
• Ink as a dye, [114]
• Intaglio, or sunk carving, [86];
• Rilevato cutting, [28]
• Irish (Runic) patterns, [26];
• tankard, old, [99]
• Italian, early, work, [62], [86], [143]
• Ivory and horn, dyes, etc., for, [95]
• Ivorying, [113]

• Key boxes, [133]
• Knobs and bosses, [101]
• Knuckle-bends, [10]
• Kraft, Adam, his work, [55]

• Layard, Sir A. H., his antiquities from Nineveh, [107]
• Leather work and carving, [90], [91]
• Leaves, cutting, [39], [51], [53], [64]
• Lecterns, [147], [148]
• Left hand, carving with the, [39], [46]
• Leland, Mr. C. G., his “Drawing and Designing,” [72], [122];
• design in high relief by, [81]
• Lunettes and spaces, filling, [139]

• Macaroni tool, the, [10], [42]
• Mander’s stains for wood, [111]
• Metal work, repoussé, [15], [17]
• Mirrors, hand, [153]
• Mitchell, C. F., his “Lessons in Carpentry,” [126]
• Modelling, [39], [49], [55], [61], [79];
• or rounding, [39]
• Modillons, [153]
• Monopodium, or centre-table, [150]
• Mottoes, [140]
• Moulding, hood, [154]
• Mouldings and borders, [147], [150]
• Moulds, carving for, [90], [92];
• making, [115]
• Mummies (boxes), [136]
• Mural decoration, [140]

• Nails, headed, as ornaments, [146]
• Nineveh antiquities, the, [107]
• Norway, ornament in, [154];
• spot cutting there, [118]
• Notches in leaves, cutting, [51]

• Oak, treatment of, [111], [112];
• leaves, [43], [54]
• Objects for wood-carvers, [121]
• Oiling in finishing, [66], [110]
• Oilstones, etc., [12]
• Orbs, carving, [150]
• Ornament, pre-historic, [118]
• Ornamentation, art of, [121].
• See also Decoration.
• Ornaments, applied, [146]
• Outlines, [154]
• Outlining, [34]

• Pacific islands, spot cutting there, [118]
• Paint, etc., in finishing, [68], [91], [113]
• Painting, finger, of the old Venetians, [113]
• Panels for carving, [123], [129], [132]
• Paper squeezes, [115]
• Papier-maché work, etc., and carving, [90], [92], [116]
• Parting tool, the, [10], [13].
• See also V tool.
• Patterns for carvers, [74], [122]
• Pattern-wheel, or tracer, the, [15]
• Pegs and hooks, [141]
• Pen and pencil boxes, [134]
• Perfume chests, [154]
• Pew-ends, [148]
• Pick, the, [3]
• Pilasters, [147]
• Pilgrim bottles, [134], [135]
• Plaster casts, [116]
• Platters, carved, [137], [140]
• Polished ornaments, [102]
• Polishing wood-carvings, [66], [111].
• See also Finishing.
• Poppy-heads, [150], [151]
• Porte-papier, [148]
• Portfolio-covers, [129]
• Powder-flasks, [134]
• Practice, [40], [48]

• Racks, carved, [141]
• Rasps for finishing, [66]
• Real, the, not to be sought too strictly, [54]
• Relics, ancient, preservation of, [107]
• Relief, high, design by C. G. Leland, [81];
• higher, [53];
• low, [89];
• progress towards, [39]
• Reliquaries (boxes), [136]
• Repairing wood-carvings, [105]
• Repoussé work, [15], [17]
• Ribbon carving, [34], [48], [57].
• See also Flat carving.
• Ring boxes, [148], [152]
• Roman Sarcophagus (box), [136]
• Roman work, early, [47]
• Rooms, decoration of, [130], [139].
• See also Vestibule, etc.
• Round, carving in the, or statuary, [79]
• Rounding. See Modelling.
• Router, the, [9]
• Rowe, Eleanor, quoted, [42], [112]
• Rule, “high art,” and wood-carving, [65], [76]
• Runic ornaments, [26], [137]