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Making a ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Two
Composite mouldings Because I don’t have any drawings and very few dimensions to lead me on this interpretation of a two-tier corner cabinet, I wanted to visualise the proportions of the cornice before embarking on the upper tier. The untrained … Continue reading
Making a ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part One
The ‘mulberry‘ bug has burrowed deep under my skin, so to satiate my craving I have decided to create a piece of ‘mulberry’ furniture. I have amassed a substantial collection of eighteenth-century glass and New Hall porcelain which currently occupies … Continue reading
Posted in Case Furniture
Tagged bruscum, corner cabinet, cut steel nails, European ash, hand-cut veneer, molluscum, mouldings, mulberry
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No Need to Rush your Work…
… or, a potted history of abrading wood The subject of Dutch rushes as a means of smoothing wood and finishes in Mulberry – Soiled, not Stained prompted me to expand on the matter of smoothing wood. These days we … Continue reading
Posted in abrasives
Tagged abrasives, chagrin, Dutch rushes, galuchat, garnet paper, glass paper, horsetail, mulberry, ray skin, sandpaper, shagreen, shark skin
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Mulberry – Soiled, not Stained.
A George I mulberry bureau in the manner of Coxed and Woster. (Christie’s) Is this beautiful early Georgian piece of furniture really made of mulberry? In Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, the subject of my post, an eighteenth-century … Continue reading
Posted in Staining, colouring and polishing
Tagged aqua fortis, ash, bruscum, Coxed & Woster, dye, lampblack, maple, mulberry, nitric acid, oak, pigment, stain, Stalker & Parker, veneer
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
or… The Restoration of a Mulberry Chest of Drawers A dealer brought in a rare circa 1730 George I cross-banded mulberry chest of drawers, attributed to the celebrated partnership of Coxed and Woster¹. This type of furniture may seem garish … Continue reading
Posted in Furniture Restoration
Tagged bracket feet, bruscum, chest of drawers, Coxed and Woster, fiddleback maple, mulberry
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