A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive

by James W. Burgess

Now blind sew another piece of cloth to the top lace, as in the other case, to form another wrinkled roll on top of the funnel or cylinder, but the outer edge of this roll is to be finished by nailing to the outside of the piece of plank just mentioned. All this sewing is of course to be done on the bench, one side of the funnel to be left open for this purpose. Next, nail in the bottom side quarter made up in squares, and then nail the side of the funnel, which is fitted against the arm-board, to the board and over the quarter, thus finishing the lower part. Then nail the fourth on top side to the top edge of arm-board; next, stuff from the front the funnel, pretty solid, and finish the top roll, which up to now has been left open, into the outside of the arm-board, thus completing the arm-piece, which shows two wrinkled rolls divided by two rows of seaming lace.

Fig. 52.

The door fall, [Fig. 52], is made on three fly buckram pasted together, but one fly is cut off about an inch from the top to allow the fall to hinge. The fall is made about 12 inches deep, the lower edge being circular. The broad lace is bent to the required shape, and the corners sewed and put on to the buckram, which is cut to the shape intended for the fall. Mark where the inside edge of the lace comes all round the buckram, then mark 1¼ inches from the mark; paste a piece of carpet into the buckram to come within ½ inch from this mark, which will make the edge of the carpet 1⅜ inches from the edge of the lace; cover this carpet with a piece of cloth, pasting on the buckram; take a piece of seaming lace, long enough to reach round the fall, and sew a piece of cloth to it, for the purpose of forming a wrinkled roll round three sides of the fall, inside the broad lace and outside the sewed carpet, between both, with 1 inch fulness to each 3 inches of length; sew this seaming lace and roll to the buckram at the mark, 1¼ inches from the broad lace, gather the other edge with a running string, and sew down and stuff lightly, finishing in such a manner that the broad lace shall cover this sewed edge; next, paste on the broad lace and cover the wrong side with silk or muslin. When dry, stitch both edges.

Fig. 53. Fig. 54.

[Figs. 53 and 54] show two styles of trimming for a door. [Fig. 53] is made as follows:—Paste out three flies of buckram, and lay off for block or biscuit pattern, leaving space enough all round for a broad lace border, and at the top leave double the space. The top space is formed into a plain cloth roll of the same goods as the job is trimmed with.

In this case the trimming is brown cloth; the broad lace is silk and worsted of a shade much lighter than the cloth. The diamond-shaped and connecting figures are worsted and are raised.

The card-pocket is made of tin and covered with Turkey morocco the colour of the trimming.

In [Fig. 54] it will be noticed that the style is somewhat different from the other; the surface of the door is trimmed plain, the fall alone being stuffed. The fall is stuffed in diamond form and enclosed with a lace border. This pocket runs up under the fall to the top, and is there nailed.