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Roberts'
Illustrated Millwork Catalog
A Sourcebook of Turn-of-the-Century Architectural
Woodwork.
Images on this page are from a E. L.
Roberts & CO. catalog that was issued in 1903. This
catalog is currently reprinted by Dover Books and is
available at Amazon.com
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This is a great source for inlay and marquetry
projects. You can adapt the designs from parquetry flooring,
stained and leaded windows, wood carvings and all types of
ornamental wood work. Another large source for art work is
plaster castings and molds, but these are not in this book. I
happen to know a stone flooring company that adapts uses these
old designs for their marble and granite work. You can scan these
old books and catalogs, bring them into a program like Corel
Draw, Freehand, or Illustrator, and convert them to vector art.
One other great thing with these old books is that they are
public domain, there is no copyright restrictions on books
published before 1923.
I scanned the pages up at 300 DPI, so it if you
click on the pages you will get a very large image, they look
good, but are huge. It's good for redrawing.
Birds eye view of our immense plant,
the largest in Chicago.
For 1903 this place was huge, they had railroad
spurs running on both sides of there building.
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These grilles were sort of
room separators in fancy ginger bready houses.
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You start looking at some of this
stuff in the catalog and you would thinks it's an art
book.
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I take it that this was not meant for a Cyber Cafe, I would like
to make this one up flat, out of all wood veneer.
The catalog has like 34 pages of these indoor grilles. The
outdoor gingerbread woodwork is not as fancy, but interesting
none the less. I would copy the whole catalog online if I had a
document feeder, but that will come in time.
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This is some of their etched / cut
glass. You can take designs for inlay from just about
anywhere. Fabric patterns, old magazines, even wall
paper. Of course, you could just draw them, I personally
am more involved in the technology behind making the
inlays and mosaics. I have not done that much drawing
yet, I did do some flowers strait from real life!, those
were pretty easy to do.
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Now this is a piece of leaded
glass. Nice pattern. If it was on the floor, and made out
of wood, it would be parquetry. Make the design out
fabric, and throw it on your bed, and it would be a quilt
block. What's funny is that you can't really tell what it
is, by looking at the drawing.
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As I said, I am hoping to get more of this
catalog up online. You can buy it from Amazon.com.
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