- Sabots, or wooden shoes, for carving, [133]
- Salamander, a, [138]
- Salt boxes, [144]
- Saw table, the, [6], [85]
- Saws, and their use, [9], [83]
- Sconces, [151]
- Scotland, early ornamentation in, [118]
- Scratch, the, [8]
- Screens, trellis, [151]
- Screws, carvers’, [5], [7]
- Scroll gouge, the, [5]
- Seaton, General, quoted, [11], [88], [96], [114]
- Settee, or settle, the, [132]
- Shaded patterns and modelling, [39]
- Sharpening tools, [11], [12]
- Shelf-boards, [144]
- Shelves and brackets, [144]
- Shields, in ornament, [150]
- Shiners, or bosses, [102]
- Shrines or Reliquaries (boxes), [136]
- Sideboards, [148]
- Side-cut, the. See Sweep-cut.
- Skew-chisels, [4]
- Slip-holder, [12]
- Slips, for sharpening tools, [12]
- Snibs, or dogs, [8]
- Soda as a dye for wood, [111]
- Sofa-backs, false, [139]
- Söhnee Frères, their varnish, [113]
- Spaces, filling, [139], [150], [151]
- Spade chisel, the, [10]
- Spade gouge, the, [10]
- Splintering of wood, [36], [44], [51], [105]
- See also Wood.
- Spoons, carved, [137]
- Spot-cutting, [118]
- Spray, use of the, in preserving decayed objects, [107]
- Squeezes, and “taking a squeeze,” [107], [115]
- Staining wood, [110]
- Staircase balusters, carving, [142]
- Stamping, or indenting, [2], [15].
- See also Diaper.
- Statuary. See Round, carving in the.
- Staves, or alpenstocks, carved, [136]
- Stephens’ stains for wood, [111]
- Stools, [155].
- See also Foot-stool.
- Strap, the, [13]
- Sunk carving. See Intaglio.
- Sweden, ornament in, [154];
- spot cutting there, [118]
- Sweep-cut, the, [37], [49], [53], [55]
- Swiss dye for wood, [112]
- Swiss work, [59], [96]
- Tables, [150]
- Tankards, carving, [98], [134]
- Tannhäuser bracket, [145]
- Tea as a dye, [111]
- Tiles, [129]
- Tool, the, art of turning it about, [35], [37], [46]
- Tools, [1], [3], [82], [150];
- sharpening, [11], [12]
- Tracer, the, [15], [16]
- Trays, carving, [143];
- for cigar ashes, [127]
- Trellis-screens, [151]
- Triptych, [150]
- Tympanum, [151]
- V or parting tool, the, [11], [13], [28], [35], [37].
- See also Parting tool.
- Varnish and carving, [91], [113].
- See also Polishing, etc.
- Veiners, [5]
- Venetian finger painting, [113]
- Venice, wood-carving at, [66]
- Verge or barge-board, [151]
- Vestibule, ornamenting a, [142]
- Violin and guitar cases, [145]
- Wainscots, etc., carving for, [74]
- Walnut wood, treatment of, [110]
- Waste-paper boxes, carving, [98], [146]
- Wasting, or chipping, [42]
- Wax, for moulds, [107], [115], [116];
- as a polish for wood, [111]
- Window gardens, [129]
- Wood, for carving, [14], [36], [88], 106 (see also Grain, Oak, Splintering, Walnut, etc.);
- colouring and staining, [110];
- decayed, treatment of, [106];
- imitation of, [106], [108];
- oiling, [66]
- Workman, the, and the artist in wood-carving, [82]
- Wreaths, in ornament, [151], [152]
- Zigzag ornament, the Swiss, [96]
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