Regarding the open vine scroll of a Purdey you mentioned, I saw another Purdey which is almost the same as yours. Sure I will buy it no matter how expensive it is, and sign it for me please! I hope one day you will have your own great book available in the market.
No other commercial available book (except Meeks ‘The art of Engraving’ book) can compare with yours.
all togehter is really the greatest engraving book in this world. I prefer to see the original style, orignal engraving from original country.īarry, your turorials, your photos, your efforts.
This may lead the readers to follow his style, not quite good in teaching and learning.especially for those readers who don't have too much experience in art, design and drawing! I treat that book as the author's drawing album, excellent works! I like it! But not for my learning of different styles of scrolls. It is far much better than spending expensive money (when compared with other tutorial drawing books) to buy a book which showing most the drawing of the author, that book shows mostly one style (the author's style) to draw different style of scrolls. ***Just my opinion, I may wrong, be open-mind and don't be offended!*** Multicolor Inlay by Barry Lee Hands 2008: The tool used to execute it is a Bulino tool.īulino work tiger by creative arts with chiseled and relieved laurel, or olive derived leafwork:Įtched and punched sculpted work by Barry lee Hands: The style is Fracassi, as developed by Firmo Fracassi. Well worn Birmingham English scroll with open scroll elements, running scroll lockplate border and open vine with rose bud action border: I would like to hear anyones opinions of the proper term and date for this style:Īnd this is more of the same, on a Westley Richards?Īcanthus with clamshell terminus and Celtic rope border: I would call this an open vine scroll, it is an Acanthus variation. Germanic small scroll by Griebel, mid 1900’s:ĭetail of Germanic scroll by Joseph Fugger, early 1960’s:Įnglish scroll on a Kavanagh, some may call this large scroll in the context of English style.īoss rose and scroll, or bouquet and scroll with running scroll border by Barry Lee Hands for a David Trevallion restoration: It bears a strong resemblance to modern Germanic and Arabesque ornament.Īmerican vine scroll, Gustave Young school: Roman vine ornament from the early Christian era, probably chiseled by immigrant Greek craftsman. Ken's work on the upper lockplate exhibits a celtic influence in the perforated ribbon incorporated in the scroll stem.Ī negative of a smoke pull of Acanthus by Barry Lee Hands 2001:Īrabesque Damascene, actually made in Damascus, from the Madrassa of the Ali Hussien Mosque in Cairo, circa 1350:Īrabesque by Barry Lee Hands, contemporary: There are as many names for differing varieties of scroll as there are engravers and engraving collectors, but I will do what I can to share some of the knowledge I have gleaned from others through thirty odd years of studying ornament and its history to put names that I would use on the styles in the following photos.If you have other names or descriptions for these, please share them.Īcanthus with multi color gold inlay by Ken Hunt circa 1954, RH lockplate:Īcanthus with multi color gold inlay by Lynton S.M. Some of it you have seen before on other threads. A friend asked me to do a post on basic engraving styles and sample pics.