Monday, September 03, 2007

The illustration at left is from Otto Salomon's book Teacher's Hand-book of Slöjd, 1904. Educational Sloyd proposed woodworking as a useful component of general education, not something only for the lower classes as vocational training, so models demonstrating techniques were often dressed in gentlemanly apparel, even showing the chain of a pocket watch.

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