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Examples of Chinese Joinery -1 - Frame and Panel
I grew up with, and inherited, a bunch of Chinese furniture, primairy in
rosewood, some with carved cedar panels. Until I got into woodworking, these pieces were just furniture - nice furniture for sure - but not anything I'd really examined - or studied. Eventually, I got beyond Norm and plywood. That's when I started studying a few of the pieces I really like. I began to see that despite their apparent delicate look, when you examine the inside you see that you're seeing an illusion of delicacey - the parts you don't normally see being a lot beefier than one would think - and what appears to be several delicate pieces - applied molding in "western furniture" is actually an integral part of a structural member, visually broken up into more delicate looking parts. What was most surprising was that almost all of the joinery can't be seen - it's all internal - out of sigth, out of mind - nothing to distract from the illusion. Naturally I had to find out what they did that I COULDN"'T see. A bit of web searching, visits with a woodworker who does a lot of chinese and japanese joinery, a book or two - and I was hooked. There are a thousand and one - or more -ways to stick to pieces of wood together - and keep them there. Though "western" furniture makers have come up with some pretty tricky joinery, they pale in comparison to those done by 10th generation furniture makers with emperors as patrons and climate changes that can be so extreme - requiring special joinery to accomodate them. So here's the first of three examples of Chinese Joinery - the familiar Frame and Panel - done in a slightly unfamilair way. charlie b |
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