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PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.
wood cut across the grain, which secures to the article the maximum amount of weakness.
Figs. 44, -15, ±6, and -17 are examples of utterly had furniture.
Fig. 44.
Fig. 45.
Fig. 46.
Another falsity abandoned.
in
furniture
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veneering
17.
— practice which should be wholly a
Simple honesty is preferable to false show in all cases; truthfulness in
utterance is always to be desired.
It was customary at one time to veneer almost