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The Scale Cabinetmaker Reading List is the list of sources quoted or cited in the 20 years of TSC. In addition to being the publisher and primary author of The Scale Cabinetmaker, Jim Dorsett had an undergraduate degree in English (Wichita City College, now University of Wichita) and was a former Presbyterian minister (trained at McCormick and preached in Montana, his home state, and Missouri) and a Sociology professor at Virginia Tech (PhD from Missouri), where he taught the Social Theory and the History of Social Thought. His background in philosophy, social history, and literature is reflected in the pages of TSC. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. (Riverside Press). pg. 802. Available online from Google books. New York: Dover. Watkins Glen, NY: Library of Victorian Culture, 1978. New York: Dover Publications. c.1970. New Encyclopedia of Furniture. New York: Crown Publishing. Advancement of Learning. Available online from Project Gutenberg. Silva Sylvarum. Available online from Google Books. (Book referenced by Jane Bernier, in TSC 2:1) Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Electronic version: University of Virginia American Studies Program, 1997.https://www.efg-badoeynhausen.de/images/casio-edifice-eqw-500-manual.pdf The American Builder’s Companion. New York: Dover. (1969 Reprint) Victorian Architecture: Two Pattern Books. Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation. New York: Dover (1979). Centuries and Styles of the American Chair. New York: E.P. Dutton. The Victorian Cabinetmaker’s Assistant. Reprinted by Dover Press. 1970. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. Probably one of the best and most readable books on the social history of America in print. Early American Decorations: A Comprehensive Treatise. Springfield, MA: Pond-Ekberg Co. New York: MacMillan. Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation. (1978). Note: the serial book was made into a film in 1932 by MGM. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co. Electronic version from Google Books. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. 1896 Edition. University of Adelaide. American Home (December 1929). English Furniture From Gothic to Sheraton. New York: Bonanza Books. The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture. London: Chapman and Hall. The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director. London: Thomas Chippendale. Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Legacy From the Past:A Portfolio of Eighty-Eight Original Williamsburg Buildings. Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. American Furniture. Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles. New York: Viking Press. Many of Comstock’s papers (1959-1965) are located at the Winterthur Library in the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques. Hawthorn Books. Stage Makeup. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. American Life, 1978. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. A Christmas Carol. Available Online from the University of Virginia. New York: Dover. American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods. NY: Bonanza Books. Not So Long Ago: A Chronicle of Medicine and Doctors in Colonial Philadelphia. New York: Oxford University Press. Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details. New York: Dover (Reprint), 1969. Danbury, CT. Captain Billy’s WhizBang. Fawcett Publications. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912. (Poem referenced by Kathy Sevebeck in TSC 2:1) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Erieville, NY: Fotocut. Rainbow on the Road. Boston. Houghton Mifflin. (Cited by Shirley Hillhouse in TSC 2:3) New York: Arco Publishing. New York: Dover. George Segal: Sculptures. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center. Boise State University. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Wind in the Willows. Note: the full text of Wind in the Willows is available online at The Literature Network. Also available from Penguin Classics (2005). A wonderful book if you have never read it. H Bridgeman and E. Drury, eds. New York: Macmillan. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1929. New York: M. Barrows. Furniture Decoration Made Easy. Boston: Charles T. Branford Co. Measured Drawings of Eighteenth Century American Furniture. Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire Traveller Press. Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware. Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire Traveller Press. Needlepoint. New York: Scribners. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide. New York: Dover Press Hand or Simple Turning: Principles and Practice. New York: Dover Press (1976). Measured Drawings of Old English Oak Furniture. Reprint. New York: Dover, 1984. The Universal System of Household Furniture. New York: Dover Press. New York: Dover Press. The American Chair, 1630-1890. New York. Hastings House. Woodcarving Techniques and Projects. Sunset Books, Lane Publishing. New Haven: Yale University Press. New York: Dover Publications. 1967. Exhibition Catalog, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum. A Needlepoint Gallery of Patterns from the Past. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. The Painting of Carl Larsson.Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg. Stained Glass in America. Jenkintown, PA: Foundation Books. Modeling the Figure in Clay. New York: Watson-Guptill. Modeling the Head in Clay. New York: Watson-Guptill. Joseph in Egypt. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. NY: Hawthorne Books. Construction of American Furniture Treasures. Dover. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum. Toys in America. Washington: Public Affairs Press. New York: Scribners. Dover Publications. New York: Dover Publications. New York: Bonanza Books. A Visit from Saint Nicholas. Available online from Project Gutenberg. New York: Drake Publishing. Flapper Furniture and Interiors of the 1920’s. Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Co. The Earthly Paradise. London: F.S. Ellis. Illustration of Santa Claus on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, January 3, 1863. In 1871, Harper’s Weekly published an article about Thomas Nast, who worked as an editorial cartoonist for the publication from 1859 to 1860 and from 1872 to 1886. Cadillac, MI: Wildwood Publishers. Self-published Undated, inscribed 1829. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century 1620-1720, including colonial utensils and hardware. Boston: Marshall Jones Company. Reprinted by Dover. New York: MacMillan Publishing. Field Guide to Early American Furniture. Bonanza Books. Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture. New York: Dover. American Furniture of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Viking. By Helen Comstock. Hawthorn Books. According to Dover, Palliser, a New York Architecture firm, ” issued a catalog of 250 original designs, and some 1,500 detailed drawings, for cottages, villas, farmhouses, seashore residences, summer and winter resorts, block houses, barns, stables, and carriage houses. New York: Plume Publishing. Mission Furniture, How to Make It, Part I. Chicago: Popular Mechanics. It is especially useful for those modelers who are interested in creating early 20th Century roomboxes. Antique Furniture: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, and Dealers. New York: Hawthorne Books. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co. New York: Bonanza Nd. Masterpieces of Furniture. New York: Dover Press. Hardcopy reprint available from De Young Press, 1997. The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors Through the Camera’s Eye, 1860-1917. New York: Praeger. As You Like It. Cabinet Directory. Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book and Repository. New York: Dover, 1972. New York: Galahad Books. Needlework Patterns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Early American Decorating Techniques. Dover Press. Cabinet-Makers and Upholsterer’s Guide. London: Jones and Co. New York: Dutton. Argus Books, Ltd. American Quilts and Coverlets. E.P Dutton. Spanish Interiors and Furniture. New York: Dover Press. Mrs. Miniver. New York: Harcourt Brace. The original “form follows function” quotation, attributed to Sullivan, is: This is the law. The Henry Francis DuPont Wintertur Museum. New York: Norton. Draft: Tips and Trics on Drawing and Designing House Plans. Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press. Charlotte, NC: East Woos Press. The World Does Move. New York: Random House. Dylan Thomas was one of Jim Dorsett’s favorite poets in part because of the kinship of place. Despite an English last name, my Jim was predominantly Welsh and claimed that his love of language and cadence came from Welsh blood. For information on Dylan Thomas, take a look at the BBC tribute website. The Day the Bubble Burst:A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Better Homes and Gardens. October, 1970. For additional Information on the Wegner Chair, see danish-furniture.com The 18th Century Houses of Williamsburg. New York: Colonial Williamsburg. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith Publishers. Carving Horses in Wood. New York: Sterling Publishing. We hope that the new version is at least as entertaining and informative as print version proved to be 38 years ago. Masterpieces of English Furniture Masterpieces of Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings Masterpieces of Marquetry: Volume I: From the Beginnings to Louis XIV, Volume II: From the Regence to the Present Day, Volume III: Outstanding Marqueters. Form, technique, and function. 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Groups Discussions Quotes Ask the Author To see what your friends thought of this book,This book is not yet featured on Listopia.The excerpts are more entertaining than illustrative, but I very much appreciate the expositions on the themes that the author chose to discuss. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Upload Language (EN) Scribd Perks Invite friends FAQ and support Sign in Skip carousel Carousel Previous Carousel Next What is Scribd. Books Audiobooks Magazines Podcasts Sheet Music Documents Snapshots Exact measurements given for each piece to aid in identification, reconstruction, restoration. Also—highly readable commentary on sect’s cultural background. Exact measurements given for each piece to aid in identification, reconstruction, restoration. Also—highly readable commentary on sect’s cultural background.All rights reserved. This Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by the Yale University Press in 1937. The original publication of this work was assisted by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Standard Book Number: 486-20679-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 50-7797 Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation 20679302 www.doverpublications.com eISBN-13 978-0-486-20679-0 CONTENTS PREFACE SHAKER CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION I. SHAKER CRAFTSMANSHIP; ITS CULTURAL BACKGROUND II.Stretcher-base table, rocking chairs and mirror. 8. Sisters’ gathering or common room. Drop-leaf tables, chairs and stove. 9. Maine Shaker craftsmanship. Tables and chair. 10. Kitchen table and bench. 11. Shaker bake-room furnishings. 12. Early Shaker stands. 13. Round stand, with side chairs. 14. Workstand, with brethren’s rocker and pipe-rack. 15. Sewing stands and chairs. 16. Round stand, with early rocking chairs and clock. 17. Four-legged sewing stand or table. That throughout this undertaking the methods of disciplined scholarship have been employed must be obvious to any reader of this book who is sensitive to the impact of convincing evidence carefully marshaled and clearly presented. At the same time, it is well to insist that, had the authors confined themselves to a purely objective investigation, their long labor would have achieved but barren results. The preliminary process of unearthing bare factual data entailed winning not merely the confidence but the affectionate cooperation of many middle-aged and elderly folk in still surviving Shaker communities. Adequate interpretation of the accumulated findings demanded more than knowledge, more than sympathetic insight. It involved the exercise of that extremely subtle gift of duality whereby it is possible to become spiritually merged in the extrinsic while yet preserving an unclouded intellectual point of view. In this procedure Mr. and Mrs. Andrews were notably successful. They gave their hearts to the Shakers and won a response in kind, but they never for a moment forgot their obligation to shun all sentimentality in their effort both to demonstrate the actuality of Shaker accomplishment and to reveal its underlying motives in behalf of the worldlings of today. Their book is of singular timeliness. It comes to hand when many dwellers in the United States are concerned about prospects of change in the social structure of the nation. Under such circumstances, information is needed regarding the causes and results of whatever social experiments have hitherto been undertaken by protagonists of the perfect state. The most extensive, enduring and fruitful of such experiments was that conducted by the voluntary associations, or so-called families, of the Shakers. Although the history of that remarkable enterprise is here only incidentally treated, its actuating spirit is comprehensively analyzed by way of discovering the immaterial causes of material effects. Another phenomenon of our current life is the emphasis placed on what is called functionalism in all the apparatus of household equipment, whether utilitarian or assumed to serve decorative ends. The dictates of functionalism insist that the design of any article shall be determined first by a study of the purpose to be fulfilled, and secondly by a consideration of the mechanical processes by which the designer’s conception is to be fabricated into a reality. Functionalism eschews ornament as a superfluity and as a disingenuous attempt to conceal structure, in which, after all, resides the essence of what is often spoken of as the new beauty. The Shakers approached a similar ultimate from a different starting point. In their thinking, ornamentation for its own sake was a sinful indulgence. Hence all their craftsmanly products must be reduced to the lowest possible terms of form devoid of all adornment. Every article, furthermore, must be devised to meet, completely yet economically, a predetermined requirement. It must, in short, be practical —the word functional had not yet come into being. Sound construction and perfection of workmanship the Shakers viewed as indispensable evidence of man’s willingness to labor faithfully and honestly according to God’s holy ordinance. Thus without calling it by high-sounding names, they achieved a functionalism that functioned in fact without benefit of elaborate theory. Their intention was to eliminate beauty. But in spite of themselves they achieved it in forms so pure, so nakedly simple, so free from all self-consciousness, as to shame the artificial artlessness and meretricious chastity that characterize so many shrewdly reticent modern creations. So it is that Shaker furniture, no less than Shaker polity, calls for consideration from a later generation. And yet it is by no means exclusively as a cultural critique that this volume should receive consideration. We are living in a sadly worried world. Probably not since the first fogs of the Middle Ages began to cloud an ancient civilization have so many human beings been a prey to such insistent yearnings to escape from turmoil into serenity. To very few of us is bodily retreat permitted—the quitting of the ills we have for others concealed behind the beckoning promise of lands unpioneered. Instead, we must be content with the solace of anodynes—diversion of mind afforded by enthralling amusement or by imaginary voyages into what retrospect portrays as a sweeter and less harried past. To me, at least, as from the summit of advancing age I view the boundless domains of yesteryear, the realm of Shakerdom yields the most alluring vision of all. Time has dimmed or quite obscured what may once have been its meaner realities. That which remains is the seeming of a life serenely fortified against an intrusive world, of a sufficiency of all needed things and therewithal a very real security—the fruit of happily busy hands dedicated to a propinquant God. Must not these be the attributes of that Elysium which at the moment all mankind is so frantically striving to attain. Though ultimately the spirit that first invoked and long sustained the Shaker movement lost its vitality, its fragrance still abides in the now half-deserted Shaker dwellings and in the surviving articles of Shaker handiwork. To enter a Shaker room today is to be profoundly conscious of this mystical emanation, at once so soothing and so strangely agitating. That something of its essence may be conveyed, even by a pictorial transcript, the illustrations in this book will amply testify. They and their textual interpretation offer a doorway of brief liberation to whosoever will but lift the latch and ponder what he finds beyond the portal. The experience should bring refreshment of soul and perhaps induce a deeper tranquillity of mind. HOMER EATON KEYES SHAKER CHRONOLOGY 1706 The French Prophets open their testimony in England, near London. 1736 Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, born in Manchester, England. 1747 Society known as Shakers or Shaking Quakers formed by James and Jane Wardley in Bolton and Manchester. Origin of movement in the English Quaker church and the French Prophets. 1758 Ann Lee joins the Wardley society. 1772 Ann Lee, in prison, receives remarkable visions. She is acknowledged as the leader and spiritual Mother of The Church of God. 1774 Ann Lee and a company of eight sail for America. A direct result of the tour was encouragement to the Believers at Harvard, Shirley and Hancock (in Massachusetts), Enfield (Connecticut) and New Lebanon (New York) to establish communities in those towns. 1784 Ann Lee dies September 8, 1784, at Niskeyuna. Elder James Whittaker succeeds her as head of the church. 1785 Father James directs that a meeting-house be built at New Lebanon. Building raised October 15, 1785. 1786 On January 29, the Believers hold their first meeting in the church in New Lebanon. 1787 Father James Whittaker dies. Succeeded by Elder Joseph Meacham, a native of Enfield, Connecticut. In September, a gathering of the society begins under Father Joseph and Mother Lucy Wright, the latter a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 1788 Covenant verbally contracted at New Lebanon. The year in which most of the members of the Church were gathered. 1790 Communities organized at Hancock, Massachusetts, and Enfield, Connecticut. (The foundation for Hancock meeting-house was laid August 30, 1786.) 1791 Meeting-house built at Niskeyuna. This community had been in process of organization since 1776. 1792 Communities organized at Canterbury, New Hampshire and Tyringham, Massachusetts. Date usually given as marking the establishment of the central church at New Lebanon in complete gospel order with a united interest. 1793 Communities organized at Enfield, New Hampshire, Shirley and Harvard, Massachusetts, and Alfred, Maine. 1794 Community organized at New Gloucester, Maine. 1795 Shaker covenant is committed to writing at New Lebanon. 1796 Father Joseph Meacham, the organizer of Shakerism on the basis of united interest, dies. Mother Lucy Wright becomes spiritual head of the church. 1805 January. John Meacham, Benjamin S. Youngs and Issachar Bates start from New Lebanon to spread the gospel of Shakerism in Ohio and Kentucky. The ultimate result of this mission was the establishment, between 1805 and 1830, of four colonies in Ohio, at Union Village (Turtle Creek), Watervliet (Beulah or Beaver Creek), Whitewater and North Union; two in Kentucky, at Pleasant Hill and South Union; and one, called West Union, at Busro, Indiana. My Mother’s wisdom is so rare In every branch of science That in her wisdom I can trust And place a firm reliance. My Mother is a carpenter She hews the crooked stick And she will have it strait and squair Altho it cuts the quick. My Mother is a Joiner wise She builds her spacious dome And all that trace her sacred ways Will find a happy home. OLD SHAKER SONG SHAKER FURNITURE INTRODUCTION DURING its long existence in America, the Shaker sect, officially known as the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, has often defined and defended its philosophy of semimonastic Christian communism. Numbers of visitors throughout this period have had the opportunity to observe the strange manner of worship, and something at least of the customs and daily routine of the followers of the mystic, Mother Ann Lee.