Fancy Turning

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
~Pythagoras

For Art Thursday, works shared by The Public Domain Review from Specimens of Fancy Turning, 1869 by Edward J. Woolsey. These were created using geometric, oval, and eccentric chucks (attachments for holding a tool in a machine, such as a drill or lathe) and an elliptical cutting frame. (They are like Spirographs. I have a very old one. I just checked to see if they are still being made, and they are.)