If you're interested in this, you would be remiss if you didn't check out David Lindow's work. He does contemporary ornamental turning and builds the specialize

If you're interested in this, you would be remiss if you didn't check out David Lindow's work. He does contemporary ornamental turning and builds the specialized lathes to do it: https://lindowmachineworks.com/our-team/david-lindow/ https://lindowmachineworks.com/our-team/david-lindow/ A celebrated period work on the subject is Holtzapffel's work Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. It is available on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/HoltzapffelVol5_1884 https://archive.org/details/HoltzapffelVol5_1884