Excerpt from Ornamental Concrete Without Molds: A Practical Treatise Explanatory of a System of Molding Ornamental Concrete Units With Templates, Containing Additional Information on the Proper Preparation of Concrete for Ornamental Work, Proportionate Size of the Various UnitsThe template. System gives you at all times absolutely full control of the surface of your work, so defects are impossible, the time necessary to employ this system is no more than to tamp the concrete properly into a mold, with the added advantage that you do not have to risk the breakage or spend the time to remove the work from the mold.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.