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Antique 'Specimens of Fancy Turning': Geometric designs from Edward J. Woolsey's 1869 albumen silver prints

vendredi 28 mars 2025, 14:20 , par BoingBoing
Antique 'Specimens of Fancy Turning': Geometric designs from Edward J. Woolsey's 1869 albumen silver prints
These 'Specimens of Fancy Turning' from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy drawings. These geometric designs were created on the hand or foot lathe'. The book is by Edward J. Woolsey (1803–1872).
From The Public Domain review: 
'Fancy 'turning' is an old artform, thought to originate in fifteenth-century Bavaria, with sustained discussions of the practice first appearing in Charles Plumier's L'Art de Tourneur (1701). — Read the rest
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