Flame bar
The flame bar is a decorative element in the form of a decorative strip with flame-like decor of the late European Renaissance .
history
These strips have their origin in Germany. Johann Schwanhardt, cabinet maker and gunsmith from Rothenburg ob der Tauber is generally considered to be the inventor of flamed planing (around 1600). His son-in-law, Jacob Hepner, introduced the invention in Nuremberg and thus made an important contribution to the production of the corrugated and flaming moldings that were fashionable in the baroque era .
It found little use in classicism and thereafter and only became relevant again in historicism . In German-speaking countries, the technology used to manufacture such strips was usually called “flames” - one also spoke of “flamed planing”. In France, the term "waves" was more common. In the more recent literature, a distinction is often made between the flame-like decoration (flame strip) and the wavy band (wavy strip). Other historical terms are flame rod, rump bar, rib bar, scraper bar.
Nature and use
Flame strips differ from simple profile bars in that, in addition to the transverse profile, there is also a profile in the length, either as a back and forth similar to a flame line or much more often as an up and down in wave form.
The strips were used in furniture construction, for paneling, as edging strips for panels and especially in the production of picture and mirror frames. Cabinet cabinets from Augsburg, relief inlays from Eger, Flemish and Dutch cabinet frames are examples.
Tools
Various tools have been built for production since the baroque era . This is how the flame bar plane, the flame drawing stick, and the wave bar drawing bench came about. These tools are being recreated today.
- Flame bar plane
Günther Heine provided a description of how the precisely measured and regular movement for producing a flame strip was implemented using a suitable guide in Tools of the carpenter and turner .
- Flame drawing stick
The flame drawing stick is a further development of the simple profile strip drawing stick, which has been known since the middle of the 16th century. This device essentially consists of four parts,
- the stick, a wooden frame to which the drawing iron and the collector are attached, comparable to the simple flame stick,
- the flame rod (stencil strip),
- the draw block with slide and
- the guide drawer.
Some originals have become known through literature.
- Waveguide drawing bench
It differs from the flame drawing stick primarily in that the workpiece is clamped on a slide and moved by a special guide. The difference to industrial mass-produced goods is primarily recognizable by the surface quality, which is determined both by the construction of the wave drawing bench and by the manual experience in drawing technology, the production of the drawn profiles and knowledge of wood. The scraping process works in the tenths of a millimeter in order to achieve surfaces according to the historical models.
literature
- Johann Georg Krünitz u. a .: Economic encyclopedia or general system of state, town, house and agriculture in alphabetical order . Pauli, Berlin 1773/1858 (242 vol.).
- Uwe Lehmann: The flamed planing. Flame bars made by hand with a draw stick. In: Bauhandwerk , vol. 29 (2007), issue 4, pages 52–53, ISSN 0173-5365 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New paperback from Nuremberg, Volume 2, Verlag Riegel & Wiener, 1822, page 224
- ^ Uwe Lehmann: Reconstruction of historical devices for flame and wave strips. In: Restorer in the craft. 2006 edition, pp. 23–24.
- ↑ Günther Heine: The carpenter's and turner's tool. Schäfer, Hannover 1990, ISBN 3-87870-596-4 , p. 146. A replica was presented by Uwe Lehmann at the 2006 Monument Fair in Leipzig.