Art Metalwork
  Arthur Payne, 1914

Art Metalwork With Inexpensive Equipment is a textbook and metalworking guide written by Arthur F. Payne for the Manual Arts Press.  This book was used  to teach metalworking to jewelry makers and artists working in hammered copper, pewter, silver, and other metals.

This book covers the making of jewelry, hammered work such as vases, bowls, and lamps, and finishing your metal.  Whether you are an aspiring jewelry maker in any style, want to be the next Dirk Van Erp or Karl Kipp (of Roycroft fame), or are an antique dealer wanting to know how products are made, this would be a great reference.  This book would also be of use to people who are doing restoration or repair work on jewelry or vintage copper work.  This is quite possibly the best art metalwork design guide from the period.  It references period designersof the period and incorporates details from them including William Morris and others.

The styles used in this book are primarily Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau but the processes and tools would work well for any style.  This is a great how-to book for designers and a great reference for antique dealers.

This book was painstakingly scanned at high resolution for a clean reproduction.  The CD contains free Adobe Acrobat readers for Windows and Macintosh and there are no printing restrictions for personal use.  This would be a perfect reference for course work in colleges or high schools, home schooling, or hobbyists.  We would be happy to set up a special eBay auction for a bulk rate for schools requiring a quantity of these.

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Book Contents:
Chapter I - The Influence of the Arts and Crafts
Movement upon Manual Training

Chapter II - The Correlation of Metalwork
and Design

Chapter III - Copper:
I)Historical
II)Production
III)Ores
IV)Methods of Obtaining from the Ores
V)Commercial Forms

Chapter IV - Alloys of Copper

Chapter V - Metal Gages

Chapter VI - Coloring and Finishing Art Metalwork

Chapter VII - Sources of Materials
and Equipment

Chapter VIII - Etching, Soft Soldering

Chapter IX - Etching, Straight Bending, Lapping

Chapter X - Saw-Piercing

Chapter XI - Annealing, Riveting, Seaming

Chapter XII - Construction, Raising, Planishing

Chapter XIII - Beating Down, Fluting, Modeling

Chapter XIV - Outline Chasing, Raising

Chapter XV - Raising, Fluting, Paneling,
Neecking In

Chapter XVI - Raising by Coursing, Hard Soldering

Chapter XVII - Raising by Wrinkling, Seaming

Chapter XVIII - Cramp Seaming, Repousse, Recess Chasing

Chapter XIX - Enameling

Chapter XX - Spoon-Making