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Frame and panel. Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes. The basic idea is to capture a 'floating' panel within a sturdy frame, as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood ...
1. "Galloway". Dumfries and Galloway. 4 September 2019. (2019-09-04) Andy (structural engineer) and Jeanette (textiles manufacturing) build a 2-bedroom single-storey house at the top of a seaside cliff for themselves and their two dogs on the site of an old military listening station near Portpatrick. The build is a half-buried waterproof box ...
Panelling (or paneling in the United States) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components. [1] These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials. Panelling was developed in antiquity to make rooms in stone buildings more comfortable both by insulating the room from the stone and ...
This is a list of episodes for the PBS television series The Woodwright's Shop starring Roy Underhill. [1][2] The typical season is 13 episodes and starts towards the end of September or early October. [3][4] The series was first broadcast only on North Carolina's PBS channel. [5][6] After two years, the series was broadcast nationally.
An English oak chest with complex linenfold panels. Linenfold (or linen fold) is a simple style of relief carving used to decorate wood panelling with a design "imitating window tracery", [1] "imitating folded linen" [2] or "stiffly imitating folded material". [3] Originally from Flanders, the style became widespread across Northern Europe in ...
Cope and stick. Cope and stick construction is a frame and panel joinery technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes. [1][2] In cope and stick construction, the "stick" is the molded edge with a cut along the inside of the frame where it is to be joined to the panel.
Eastlake movement. The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in terms of broad antique furniture designations. In architecture the Eastlake style ...
Fretwork. Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used are wood and metal. [1] Fretwork is used to adorn furniture and musical instruments.