Blakelee S Industrial Cyclopedia

Excerpt from Blakelee's Industrial Cyclopedia: A Simple Practical Guide for the Mechanic, Farmer, Housewife and Children of Every Thrifty Household in Town or Country, Showing How to Make and Mend, How to Best Perform Thousands of Useful Processes, and How to Do All Kinds of Work Indoor and Out Cheap Summer House Roofs Of Dwellings. Construction of Chimneys Fixing up Doors Plaster and Plastering Management Of Windows Papering Walls Picket Fences for Door-yards, etc Building Board Fences Construction of Gates Construction of Cellars Walks about the Premises How to Build an Ice House How to Make a Dog Kennel Poultry Houses, Yards and Coops The Apiary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined traces the widespread popularity of the craft from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.