Tim W wrote:


"Tim W" wrote in message
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Google William Morris 1834-96 and the results you will get are all
wallpaper and fabrics, still being made and still for sale. He was a
great decorator but he was also much more than that, an artist, poet,
novelist, entrepreneur, all round designer, craftsman, printer-publisher,
politician and visionary. His vision was of a new society in which
manufacturing was returned to the craft workshop, where people found joy
in making things of beauty, utility and quality. Cities and factories
would be demolished as people returned to their rural communities where
they would rediscover brotherhood, mutual endeavour and self reliance. It
was a vision based on a romantic view of the medieval economy -
craftsmanship, guilds, self governing small towns and common ownership.
His furniture, like the paintings of his friend Burne-Jones is an
imagined and idealised medievalism. Furniture to be craftsman made, not
mass produced, solid, honest and decorated with paint or with a few
rustic motifs.

I have been drawing some plans to make a William Morris table taken from
photographs of a surviving piece. I haven't seen the piece so I can't be
totally certain that I have the overall dimensions correct but I am
pretty
sure I have it close. I am posting them in pdf in
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking. I would welcome any feedback. In
particular I tried to draw up the plans so they could be used by
beginners to produce a small piece of furniture. I would like to know if
you think I
have been successful. The design is particularly well suited for a
couple of weekends hand tool work cutting some simple joints in solid
pine.



I see interest in my drawing is pretty limited here and on the binaries
group. I still think I am casting pearls before you guys so where would
be a good repository for these drawings for the good of mankind? Is there
a free library of plans somewhere? They don't have to be grateful, just
take them and keep them.

Tim W
So where are these free plans? I may have missed the original thread.


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