The Carriage Trimmer's Manual

• 400 pages
• 6" x 9" x 1"
• Illustrated with black and white pictures and drawings
• Soft cover

Contents:

CHAPTER 1: Carriage Trimmers' Materials

• CARRIAGE CLOTHS
  • Clean stock vs. Shoddy-Weighting-Domestics, English and German Cloths-Unrealiability of colors- Indigo and Wood dyes, Wool and Pieces Dyed- Lustrous and Dull Surfaces- Piece Lengths, Widths, Weights and Prices.
• PATENT AND ENAMELED LEATHER
  • Hides Used- Tannage- Maethods of Splitting- Machine Buffing - Grading, Measuring, Cutting, Etc.
• HARNESS LEATHER
  • Weights Most Available- Cutting - Finishing- Oak Tanned vs. Hemlock- Long, Weight and Trimmed Stock- Backs- Morocco
• COACH LACES
  • Their Long-Continued Use- Past and Present Styles-Amount Used- Classification- Colors and Shades- Worsted and Silk Laces- Rep and Cut- Width- Length of Pieces- Tufts, Tassels, Gimp Nails, Cords, Etc. How Laces are Woven- Machine vs Hand-made.
• THREADS AND SILKS
  • Linen Thread- Numbers and Sizes- Silk- Skein Thread
• CURLED HAIR, MOSS, ETC
  • Qualities of Hair- Market Price- Process of Manufacture- Picking- Black Moss-How Cured- "Excelsior"- "Rowen."
• TRIMMERS' PASTE
  • Wheat and Rye Flour Pastes- How to Cook-Prepared Paste for Summer Use

CHATPER 2: TABLES OF TRIMMING MATERIALS

• Cheap materials not a Requisite for Medium Grades of Work- Wastage in Cutting Stock- Trimming Cheap Work- Profits- Little Things to be Looked After Leave Low-Priced Work to large Manufacturers-The Work that is the Most Salable- Value of the Trimming Tables
• TABLES
  • Road Wagon, No. 1: Top  Wagon, No.2; Whitechapel Buggy, No. 3:  Britton Buggy, No. 4; Goddard Buggy No. 5: Jenny Lind, No. 6; Coal-Box Buggy, No. 7; Doctor's Phaeton, No. 8; No-Top Surrey, No.9; Top Surrey, No. 10; Standing-Top Wagon, No. 11; Pney Phaeton, No. 12; ladies' Phaeton, No. 13; Ladies' Phaeton, with Rumble, No. 14; Half-Top Four-passenger Phaeton, No. 15; Extension-Top Four- Passenger Phaeton, No. 16; Extension-Top Six-Passenger Phaeton, No. 17; Close-Quarter Four- Passenger Rockaway, No. 18; Curtain Rockaway,  Four Passenger, No. 19; Square-Box Four Passener Roackaway, No.20; Glass-Quarter Six Passenter Rockaway, No 22; Cabriolet, No. 23; Victoria, No. 24; Round Cabriolet, No. 25; vis-a-Vis, No. 26; Extension-Top Brett, No. 27; Coupe, No. 28; Brougham, No. 29; Landau, Leather top, No. 32; Landau, Glass Front, No. 33; Glass-Quarter coach, No. 34; Dog Cart, No. 35; T-Cart, No. 36; Mail Phaeton, No. 37; Dog Cart, No. 38; boston Chaise, No. 39; Two-wheel stanhope, No. 40; Village Cart, No. 41; Extension- Top Wagonette, No. 42; Jump Seat, No. 43; Depot Wagon, No.44; No-Top Beach Wagon, No. 45; Portland slegh, No. 46; Russo-Canadian Sleigh, No. 47; new York Cutter, No. 48; Albany Cutter, No. 49; Albany Pony Sleigh, No 50; Albany Six-Seat Sleigh, No. 52; Wagonette, No-Top, No. 53.

CHAPTER 3: TECHNICS OF TRIMMING

• General Principles and conditions- Cutting and Tufting Cushions and Squbs- Characteristics of Good Work

CHAPTER 4: SETTING TOPS

• Primary Rule- Leveling the body- Making Working Draft - Locating Props - Cutting Frame - Cutting Bows- Top Frame- Measuring Joints- Bow Supports

CHAPTER 5: COVERING DASHES

• Selecting and Cutting Stock - Grain and Split Dash - Peculiarities of Different Portions of a Side-Drawing on the Leather-Stitching, Trimming and Finishing Edges

CHAPTER 6: SEAT FALLS AND BACKS

• Hard and Soft- Welting-Stitiching and Binding- Pipe and Pleated, Quilted and Corded Falls- Cutting and Making Backs- Material Used.

CHAPTER 7: STUFFING CUSHIONS- COVERING GLASS FRAMES AND BOWS 

• Material Used for Stuffing- The Stuffing Stick - cotton Overlay- Cloth for Frames- Pasting on- Paste Stick- Bow Covers- Stitching- Welts and Binding.

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