Metal Techniques for Craftsmen: A Basic Manual for Craftsmen on the Methods of Forming and Decoration

Untracht, Oppi

ISBN 10: 0385030274 / ISBN 13: 9780385030274

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1975

About this Item

4to, 509 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 011136

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Metal Techniques for Craftsmen: A Basic Manual for Craftsmen on the Methods of Forming and Decoration
• Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, NY
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385030274
• ISBN 13: 9780385030274
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely illustrated
• Edition: Later prt.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Decorative Arts

About this title

Synopsis

An illustrated guide offers step-bystep instructions in forming, fabricating, and finishing metal objects

About the Author

Oppi Untracht's interest in crafts began in the 1930s and developed with Fine Arts degrees from New York University and Columbia. Metalwork, enamelling and jewellery are his special interests, and he has both taught and exhibited internationally in these mediums. He has written numerous articles for Graphis, Craft Horizons, American Craft and Colliers Encyclopedia, and is the author of Jewelery Concepts and Technology, also published by Robert Hale.