By Hand & Eye Books - Shelter Institute
By Hand & Eye Books - Shelter Institute
By Hand & Eye Books - Shelter Institute

By Hand & Eye

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Walker and Tolpin's guide to the proportional design language behind good work.

Best For

  • Designing your own pieces
  • Understanding why old work looks right
  • Woodworkers moving past plans
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In stock at 873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579 · Usually ready in 24 hours

In stock at 873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579

By Hand & Eye

Available for pickup

873 US-1, Woolwich, ME 04579

Usually ready in 24 hours

873 U.S. 1
Woolwich ME 04579
United States

+12074427938

Why do old buildings and furniture simply look right? George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin answer that in By Hand & Eye: the pre-industrial world designed by proportion, not measurement, using ratios worked out by hand and eye rather than dimensions from a plan.

The book teaches that design language, historical and practical, so you can generate your own well-proportioned work instead of copying someone else's. Published by Lost Art Press, it changes how you see everything you build afterward.

  • Authors: George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin
  • Length: 200 pages, full color
  • Format: case-bound and sewn, cotton cloth over hardback boards with black matte stamp, #80 matte coated paper
  • Content: pre-industrial proportions (1:2, 3:5, 4:5), dividers as the design tool, exercises for the inner eye, nine projects
  • Published by: Lost Art Press, produced and printed in the USA

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