Woodturning Design

Woodturning Design is the essential aid whether you want to design turned art or favor traditional styles. Using incisive text and 540 color illustrations, it thoroughly explains the design process, presents a huge amount of woodturning-design knowledge, and puts a woodturning museum and gallery at your fingertips. Book jacket.

Mike Darlow ran a major woodturning business for sixteen years. He's had more than a hundred woodturning articles published, and this is his fifth woodturning book. Mike continues to exhibit and teach internationally, and turn commercially

The Design Process	p. 1
An Introduction to Design	p. 2
Endnotes	p. 4
Perception	p. 5
How Our Minds Perceive	p. 5
Conclusion	p. 10
Endnotes	p. 10
A History of Aesthetics	p. 11
The Ancient and Medieval Period	p. 11
The Renaissance	p. 14
The Modern Period	p. 17
Summary	p. 38
Endnotes	p. 39
Design Concepts and Issues	p. 41
Modern Aesthetic Meanings	p. 41
Concepts Which Influence Our Perceptions	p. 59
Concepts Concerned with the Production of Turnings	p. 71
Moral Concepts	p. 78
Endnotes	p. 87
Stage 1 Design	p. 89
Inception	p. 89
Feasibility	p. 94
Intentions	p. 95
Restraints	p. 110
Incubation and Illumination	p. 116
The Preliminary Design	p. 116
The Initial Design Proposal	p. 116
Endnotes
Ornament and Moldings	p. 117
Ornament	p. 118
Moldings	p. 122
Endnotes	p. 148
The Detailed Design of form	p. 149
Design Tools	p. 149
Wholistic Detailed Design	p. 155
Design-by-Parts	p. 163
Designing for Appropriateness	p. 172
Endnotes	p. 174
Decoration	p. 175
Color	p. 175
Pattern	p. 180
Texture	p. 186
Gloss Level	p. 188
Endnotes	p. 188
Designing Spindles	p. 189
Intentions	p. 189
Show-and-Tell	p. 191
Box Design	p. 197
Intentions	p. 197
Influences on Form	p. 200
Guidelines	p. 203
Lids	p. 203
Lid/Base Proportions	p. 206
Show-and-Tell	p. 207
Endnotes	p. 208
Vessel Design	p. 209
Stage 1 Design	p. 209
Detailed Design	p. 209
Columns	p. 215
Columns in Ancient Egypt	p. 215
Columns in the Ancient Near East	p. 223
Ancient Greek Columns	p. 224
Roman Columns	p. 229
Romanesque and Gothic Columns	p. 232
The Formalization of the Orders	p. 233
Columns After the Renaissance	p. 235
Asian Columns	p. 239
Designing Classical Columns	p. 240
The Manufacture of Columns	p. 256
Balusters	p. 258
Endnotes	p. 260
Where Next?	p. 261
Where Next for Woodturning?	p. 261
Where Next for This Series	p. 264
Index	p. 265
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