Traditional Ironwork Designs

Traditional Ironwork Designs
Author: Josef Feller
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486134431

From an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of royalty-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironworks from the city of Düsseldorf, with finely rendered examples of the craft ranging from elaborate castle gates to ornate weather vanes. Balustrades, screens, balcony railings, and other decorative ironworks abound in this handsome compilation. Derived from a rare, turn-of-the-century portfolio, these splendid designs offer uncommon glimpses of a rich array of motifs that are sure to inspire and delight designers, architecture enthusiasts, antique lovers, and devotees of vintage ironwork.

Classic Wrought Ironwork Patterns and Designs

Classic Wrought Ironwork Patterns and Designs
Author: Tunstall Small
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486152502

Forty plates of meticulously rendered hinges, grilles, railings, latches, door knockers, and more — selected from English chapels, tombs, castles, and other structures — span more than 600 years of metalworking history.

1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs

1100 Decorative French Ironwork Designs
Author: Denonvilliers Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486155781

Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features. A rich source of inspiration and royalty-free graphics, as well, for commercial artists and designers.

Treasury of Ironwork Designs

Treasury of Ironwork Designs
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486319792

Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

Ornamental Ironwork

Ornamental Ironwork
Author: Michael Southworth
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This book on the history and technology of architectural ironwork aims to impart an understanding of the myriad of forms and uses to which ironwork has been put. In addition, the book describes techniques for restoring and preserving ornamental ironwork. Also shown are many of the traditional patterns and design motifs which can be used as tracings for contemporary design.

Decorative Ironwork

Decorative Ironwork
Author: Margarete Baur-Heinhold
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764301537

Artists have made gates and fences in wrought iron over the centuries in ornamental designs shown here in hundreds of photos. The restoration of wrought iron is discussed and ironwork examples are organized according to their uses, such as gratings that protect doors and windows, entries and gates from Europe in the Middle Ages, artistic creations of the 17th and 18th centuries, and works of our own day.

Decorative Wrought Ironwork Projects for Beginners

Decorative Wrought Ironwork Projects for Beginners
Author: Thomas F. Googerty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486443469

Originally published: Decorative wrought iron work, working drawings and working notes on the making of simple, useful articles from wrought iron, brass and copper. Peoria, Ill.: Manual Arts Press, 1937.

Decorative Ironwork

Decorative Ironwork
Author: The Countryside Agency
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607657295

In succession with Blacksmith’s Craft and Wrought Ironwork, Decorative Ironwork is a facsimile edition of the original 1963 instruction manual for intermediate to advanced blacksmiths. Apply all previous techniques learned to forge and form the designs of 7 decorative iron grilles through detailed, step-by-step instruction and photography. Once completed and mastered, this book will arm you with vital skills that are applicable to the entire field of decorative ironwork.

Decorative French Ironwork Designs

Decorative French Ironwork Designs
Author: Louis Blanc
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2013-03-13
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486135780

Over 1,500 attractive black-and-white illustrations — drawn from balconies, gates, grilles, stair railings, and elsewhere — incorporate floral and foliate designs, human and animal figures, musical motifs, heraldic crests, mythological figures, geometrics, more.

Wrought Ironwork

Wrought Ironwork
Author: Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607657325

In succession with Blacksmith’s Craft and a facsimile edition of the original 1953 instruction manual, Wrought Ironwork is a practical and essential guide with a focus on technique for the modern smith. With 33 step-by-step lessons and coordinating photography for making a variety of scrolls – from ribbon-end scrolls to beveled scrolls – water leaves, and wavy bars, and eventually onto the creation and assembly of an ornamental gate, practice the fundamentally vital methods to this timeless trade.