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I'm sure that like many here I'm very interested, but just don't
have anything to add.
Remember, there are many lurkers here that read and learn
but don't post.
How about a repost of your drawings?

I see interest in my drawing is pretty limited here and on the binaries
group. I still think I am casting pearls before you guy....


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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

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I'm sure that like many here I'm very interested, but just don't
have anything to add.
Remember, there are many lurkers here that read and learn
but don't post.
How about a repost of your drawings?

I see interest in my drawing is pretty limited here and on the binaries
group. I still think I am casting pearls before you guy....



Thanks Joe. I will repost them in alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking in the
next day or two both as jpeg and pdf.

Tim w


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How about the various magazines on the news stand.
In the library ?

Books in the library ?

Martin

On 7/6/2011 1:53 PM, Joe wrote:
I'm sure that like many here I'm very interested, but just don't
have anything to add.
Remember, there are many lurkers here that read and learn
but don't post.
How about a repost of your drawings?

I see interest in my drawing is pretty limited here and on the binaries
group. I still think I am casting pearls before you guy....


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"Tim wrote in message
...
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

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How about the various magazines on the news stand.
In the library ?

Books in the library ?

Martin



Hey Martin, how are you? How is the baking? Pizza and ciabatta for me today.

The query was about where to deposit/publish plans for free use rather than
where to find them.

Tim W


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