The following firms and individuals can furnish the various weaving materials indicated. They may undoubtedly be procured locally in the larger cities.

BOOKS ON THE MANUAL ARTS

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION IN WOOD. By Noyes. A book full of charm and distinction. It illustrates a series of well-designed and attractive projects, and gives suggestions for other similar projects, all suitable for home use, together with information regarding tools and processes for making. A pleasing volume abundantly and beautifully illustrated. $1.50.

HANDWORK IN WOOD. By Noyes. A comprehensive and scholarly treatise, covering logging, saw-milling, seasoning, and measuring, hand tools, wood fastenings, equipment and care of the shop, the common joints, types of wood structures, principles of joinery, and wood finishing. 304 illustrations—excellent pen drawings and many photographs. The best reference book for teachers of woodworking. $2.00.

WOOD AND FOREST. By Noyes. A reference book for teachers of woodworking. Treats of woods, distribution of American forests, life of the forest, enemies of the forest, destruction, conservation and uses of the forest, with a key to the common woods by Filibert Roth. Describes 67 principal species of wood, with maps of the habitat, leaf drawings, life-size photographs and microphotographs of sections. Profusely illustrated. $3.00.

CARPENTRY. By Griffith. A well-illustrated textbook for use in vocational schools, trade schools, technical schools and by apprentices to the trade, presenting the principles of house framing in a clear and fundamental way. It treats of the “every-day” practical problem of the carpenter and house-builder from the “laying of foundations” to the completion of the “interior finish.” $1.00.

WOODWORK FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS. By Griffith. A textbook for high schools, colleges and technical schools. It contains chapters on woods, tools and processes, joinery, turning, carving, inlaying, wood finishing, pattern making, and the use of woodworking machines. It is a well-balanced and authoritative text, presupposing a knowledge of elementary tool processes. Specially adapted to secondary schools. $1.75.

CORRELATED COURSES IN WOODWORKING AND MECHANICAL DRAWING. By Griffith. Contains reliable information concerning organization of courses, subject-matter, and methods of teaching. It covers classification and arrangement of tool operations, stock bills, cost of material, records, shop conduct, the lesson, maintenance, equipment and lesson outlines for grammar and high schools. The most complete and thoro treatment of the subject of teaching woodworking ever published. $1.50.

ESSENTIALS OF WOODWORKING. By Griffith. A textbook written especially for grammar and high school students. The standard textbook on elementary woodworking. A clear and comprehensive treatment of woodworking tools, materials and processes, to supplement, but not to take the place of the instruction given by the teacher. The book may be used with any course of models. 75 cents.

WOODWORK FOR BEGINNERS. By Griffith. A textbook for students in the seventh and eighth grades. In a remarkably simple manner it presents only the fundamental facts regarding tools and tool processes which should be thoroly mastered by the grammar grade boy. It is technically correct, well illustrated and is adapted for use with any course of models. 50 cents.

PROJECTS FOR BEGINNING WOODWORK AND MECHANICAL DRAWING. By Griffith. A collection of 50 working drawings and working directions of projects which have proved of exceptional service where woodworking and mechanical drawing are taught in a thoro, systematic manner in the seventh and eighth grades. 75 cents.

FURNITURE MAKING—ADVANCED PROJECTS IN WOODWORK. By Griffith. A collection of problems in furniture making selected and designed with reference to high school use. On the plate with each working drawing is a good perspective sketch of the completed object. In draftsmanship and refinement of design, these problems are of superior quality. An excellent collection. 75 cents.

FURNITURE DESIGN FOR SCHOOLS AND SHOPS. By Crawshaw. A manual in furniture design containing a collection of plates showing perspective drawings of typical designs, representing particular types of furniture. Each perspective is accompanied by suggestions for rearrangements and the modeling of parts. The text discusses and illustrates principles of design as applied to furniture. Should be in the hands of every teacher of cabinet making and design. $1.00.

PROBLEMS IN FARM WOODWORK. By Blackburn. A book of working drawings of 100 practical problems relating to agriculture and farm life. Each problem is accompanied by text treating of “Purpose,” “Material,” “Bill of Stock,” “Tools,” “Directions,” and “Assembly.” Of special value to the pupil and teacher of agriculture and manual arts in rural schools, and to the boy on the farm. $1.00.

PROBLEMS IN FURNITURE MAKING. By Crawshaw. Contains 43 full-page working drawings of articles of furniture. In addition to the working drawings, there is a perspective sketch of each article completed. There are 36 pages of text giving notes on the construction of each project, chapters on the “Design” and “Construction” of furniture, and one on “Finishes.” The last chapter describes 15 methods of wood finishing, all adapted for use on furniture. $1.00.

PROBLEMS IN WOODWORKING. By Murray. A collection of 40 plates of working drawings of problems in bench work that have been successfully worked out by boys in grades seven to nine, inclusive. 75 cents.

PROBLEMS IN WOOD-TURNING. By Crawshaw. Contains 25 full-page plates of working drawings covering spindle, faceplate, and chuck turning. It gives the mathematical basis for the cuts used in turning. A valuable textbook for students’ use. 80 cents.

WORKSHOP NOTE-BOOK—WOODWORKING. By Greene. A note-book which furnishes a few general and extremely important directions about tools and processes, and provides space for additional notes and working drawings. It is essentially a collection of helps, ideas, hints, suggestions, questions, facts, illustrations, etc. It is full of suggestions; shows a keen insight into subject-matter and teaching methods, and is an effective teaching tool. 15 cents.

SHOP PROBLEMS. By Siepert. Portfolios of plates—working drawings of projects printed on tracing paper and adapted to be blue-printed for students’ use. The plates are taken from the Shop Notes and Problems department of the Manual Training Magazine. The problems include a wide variety of good design and adapted for shop use. Series I, II, III and IV have been published. Price per series, 35 cents.

GRAMMAR GRADE PROBLEMS IN MECHANICAL DRAWING. By Bennett. A remarkably simple and carefully graded textbook on the fundamentals of mechanical drawing for the use of students in the seventh and eighth grades. It combines an abundance of text and simple problems, accompanied by notes and directions. Its use insures the early formation of correct habits of technique and makes possible the development of a standard in grammar grade mechanical drawing parallel with woodworking. Abundantly and well illustrated. 38 cents.

PROBLEMS IN MECHANICAL DRAWING. By Bennett. A students’ textbook consisting of 80 plates of problems classified into groups according to principle, and arranged according to difficulty of solution. Each problem is given unsolved and, therefore, in proper form to hand to the pupil for solution. The best collection of problems for first-year high-school students available. 75 cents.

MANUAL TRAINING TOYS FOR THE BOYS’ WORKSHOP. By Moore. A popular boys’ book. It contains 35 pages of full-page plates of working drawings illustrating 42 projects. All the projects are overflowing with “boy” interest, and are well adapted to the upper grades of the elementary school. The text treats of tools and tool processes, and gives instructions for making each project. $1.00.

KITECRAFT AND KITE TOURNAMENTS. By Miller. Authoritative and comprehensive. The book deals with the construction and flying of all kinds of kites, and the making and using of kite accessories. Also aeroplanes, gliders, propellers, motors, etc. Abundantly illustrated and attractively bound. $1.00.

BIRD HOUSES BOYS CAN BUILD. By Siepert. A book of rare interest to boys. It is written in the boy spirit and combines the charm of nature with the allurements of continuation work in wood. It illustrates hundreds of bird houses and shows working drawings of various designs; also feeders, shelters, sparrow traps, and other bird accessories. The common house nesting birds are pictured and described with information regarding houses, foods, etc., suitable for each. A pleasing and practical book for wide-awake boys. Price, 50 cents.

LEATHER WORK. By Mickel. A manual on art leather work for students, teachers and craft workers. It gives detailed descriptions of the various processes of working, treating of flat modeling, embossing or repoussÉ, carved leather and cut work. It is well illustrated with photographs of finished work and working drawings of twenty useful and beautiful articles suitable for school and home work. 75 cents.

BOOKS ON THE MANUAL ARTS. A bibliography listing and describing 400 books mailed free.

Published by The Manual Arts Press Peoria, Ill.