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studies
CONTENTS.
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PAGE
CHAP,
I.
II.
III.
A
Method
Wood
Study
of
i
Carving
Beaten
15
Metal
Work
Repousse
or
44 .
IV.
Clay
Modelling
Relief
in
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71 .
.
V.
Work
Metal
and
.
Enamelling
Enamelled
and
82
Jewellery .
VI.
Bookbinding
Leather
and
96
Work .
.
VII.
Inlaying
and
Gesso,
VIII,
Stained
Wood
Painting
or
in
Decoration.
Relief .
IX.
X..
Fret
117
135
.
.
156
Work
Needlework:
Planning
and
Designing
175
.
XI.
Animal
Forms
in
Decoration
.198 .
XII.
XIII.
.
Stencilling
212
Work
Poker
on
Wood
and
Leather .
XIV.
Decorative Furniture
Painting
for
Rooms
224
and
2^^
OF
LIST DESIGNS
WHOSE
REPRODUCED
ARE
Nuiribers
The
given
ARTISTS
are
those
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each
BOOK.
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IN
Illustration.
PAGE
Allport,
148
Miss C.
ASHBEE,
R.
Bassett,
Miss
Bennett,
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42,
166,
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Carpenter,
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Chiswick
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of
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64 168
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Gimingham,
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120
170
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177
150
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Louis
Fisher,
46
79
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175,
Mrs
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Davis,
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.
143 F.
Lynn .
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.
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.
.
92,
103
ARTISTS.
OF
LIST
Xll
PAGE
Cherry
Kearton, Kerby
67
Class
Lonsdale
Leighton
Class
Buzzard
4
56
Frank
LuTiGER,
80
Freres
Majorelle
Gilbert
Marks,
.41
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Martin,
B
Miss
Miller,
F., 7 40,
43,
123
to
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Gerald
Moore,
Miss
Moss,
144
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to
16,
44,
48, 70
135,
to
137
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20,
19, to
26,27,30,31,331037,39,
78, 81
to
91, 94
151
to
164, 169.
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141,
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174
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136 149
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AMATEURS.
FOR
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names
and
incidents. The in
desire
tendency
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and simplicity,
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all
designs for
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crafts
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methods
of art
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in
designs.
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to
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teachers
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to
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styles
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maxim
well-worn
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exhibited
trace
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prize works
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throughout
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Kensington,
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though
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work
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photographs
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guard against a dispositionto put or
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of
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as
large
stock
of illustrations
studied, and
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this and
large
a
book
a
selection
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becomes
receive
work
Let
studying
ground if our
fresh
conventional
suave
splendidly
primitive peoples.
as
and make
they
barbarity and
a
stimulatingto study is
one
have
over-cultivation
virility ; for
polish, the
hard
other
Chinese
The
do
though
not
use.
qualitiesin
we
this
who
little coarse,
Vigour, character, even
and
ferent dif-
us
superior person
contemplating
advance
a
of
attenuation
the
some
by precedent.
first be
at
rare
a
slight as
people, and
by
centuries
the
makes
art
surelyfind expression and
deteriorate,and
to
through
think
which
us
constantly breaking
be
soil may
new
other
existence
classics,but
must not
are
from
and
through
their nine We
of
move
on
gone
within
that
be, it should
out
what
is
genius
that
enough
said
the
canons,
professor'sconception of
learned
we
interesting
more
any
certain
to
is obvious
personalitymay
if
FOR
old
work.
I may
Having claim
to
spent
have
some
a
A
slightacquaintance my to
is
readers be
draw
seen,
imitatingit.
with
all
by
By
keep
Try
do
4.
"
sweet,
never
is
that
appeal
the
can
look
exhaust out
for
on
advice
my
:
to
but
you,
avoid and
own,
your
it is
where
; go
to
to
Bookbinding. Class, under
everything else
Miss
going
cease
head, Nature, for she, after all,is the You
good work
old
something
Tooled
Buzzard
STUDY.
that
study
means
and
Leighton
soul
your
much
specimens
No. the
OF
METHOD
source
but
her.
Bassett.
to
the
of all
fountain
inspiration.
Always
agreeable lines,pleasant shapes
;
be
keep
on
on
ART
lo
the
alert for
CRAFTS
strikingcombinations
at
any
moment,
suggested by
is
true
that
basis
ideas but
the
to
come
may
material
on
Training of make
idea
suggestion
or
and
You
getting your
mind
the
of fertility
experience is
to
which
initial
to
fit it for
some
be
made
than
to
must taste
know
what
can
inlay
learn
to
woods
coloured more
being
to
our
the
mind,
other, but
Those
former
for
a
be
a
when is the
instance
of
long time
gas ;
done the
panel;
his
own
engine
to
the
overcome
rightwell. for
kind
one
this is done
of tooled
that
handiwork
is in
worse
leather, produced
leather
effects
of work
the alterations
learn
soon
by tooling just as
and
all
inertia due
the
overcome
in
waste
a
we difficulty
great
drawn
work
activity.
yourself by
those
to
who
given by letting in brings us
of position,the desirability
designer of
should
its
also
astonish
away
effect
appreciate in
to
where
who
best
in my
made
circumspection,for nothing
say, the
see,
The
design
a
with
the
yet by degrees, by
way,
rose.
cold
adapt
by inlaying.
ideas, and
no
it will work
and difiiculty
wing,
treacherous
so
one,
your
merely plant
be
once
something like getting a
been
has
It is easy to
the
is
at
of
worker not
"
It is another the
start
the
other,
show
to
but receptiveness,
resource.
inactivity. It
move
its
as
bird's
a
nature
travellingthat
place blossoming
to
bone,
It
this,that by cultivatinga faculty
by having
start
may
to
one
more
any
arranging
and
should
comes
than
source
Therefore
note
remember increase
only
not
A
plant-form,and
endeavoured
I have
as
form.
any
memory; you
fish's
a
practiceof sketching from
a
form, but an
is that
to
come
may
unlikelymaterial.
most
planning
Craftsman.
a
the
ornament
from
moth,
a
; ideas
through
one
come
may
markings
of
for the
suggestion
a
AMATEURS.
FOR
instead
back
each of
once
worker
working
A
fettered
by
having
the
STUDY.
OF
METHOD
ideas
of
another
Swan
Hotel,
ii
imposed
upon
him.
Xo.
-Oak
Settle
Southwold
With in
a
regard to
former
in
School
fashion
paragraph,
the
no
in one
of
Industrial
design can
which
Southwuld. Art.
I
touched
help being
upon
influenced
by
ART
12
the
work
CRAFTS
admires
one
feelingabroad in
works
of of
that, because
working.
leave
What
the
out
by pupils,while
sightof.
Just
friends
our
making
preserved what
of
they
have
books
Set student
a
is well-worn those
who
at
receive
in
like that which is that it is
only
transcendent venerate
at
the
now
to
force
one's
after years
was
upon
of the of
outset
it
time
rebelled
ego
qualitiesin
examples which is
of
more
the
very one's the
one
work
sets
one
upon
which
they
because
just Think
of an
in
spent
My
one
whelming over-
see
expected
those
tyro's attention.
not
trying to
to
is
in the
the
experience
own
learns
career:
custom
advice,
feelingsdid
own
was
study
thus
Study
one.
with
one
no
is of
all that
canons
at.
be
excellent
work.
bur
which
must
equilibriumis
force
to
came
the we
we
master,
a
dogmas
old
of
man,
with
enunciate
youth
the
very
infallible
failingsof hold
pulling at
to
is lost
that, because
as
One's
but
for certain
much one's
world
wish
once
as
one's
that
so
the
are
who
recommendation
endorse,
up
ventionalities con-
whole
lay
think
one
purview.
one's
penchant
that
of
affect
us
a
no
and
and
we
side of
that
reproducing
always
are
have
artists and
influences
and principles,
would
excellencies, so
It is
perpetuated
the
faults
the
see
many
when
there
quicker
and
mind.
and
upon
way
weaknesses
affectations
the
spiritdenominating
under
most
you
that
a
followers
the
master
a
the
progress.
good report
him
qualitiesseized
their
pupil,but
is that
their master's
make
be
to
gets
only excellent
is the
the
we
of
there
dominating personality-
happens
true
trickeryof
get the knack
man's
as
than
surface
mere
it is
as
are
for
often
so
but
;
very
that
qualitiesthat
unfortunate
be
a
strong personalityimitate
a
as
him
around
particularway,
a
AMATEURS.
FOR
past Were
the to
classical than I to
it be
A
planning devote
out
much
the
time
No.
seeing nature
OF
trainingof
more
Welbeck
MRTHOD
6.
through
;
student
Wood
designed
the
eyes
13
in the
direct
work
to
Carved
"
Class
a
STUDY.
crafts I should
from
nature
than
Panel.
by Joseph Phillips. of other
folk, which
is what
ART
14
do
we
when
And
for
the
should
he
rather
than
from
what
is
in
examples
in
wonderful
how
definite
when
to
to
wrinkles,
set
as
an
worker
amateur
is
craft
is
with
While
feel.
be
to
when
good
visits
it
for
a
experiences
one
direct
to
is
It
seen.
one
motive
no
rather
where
feeling
the
to
within
feels
he
museum
are
museum
different
around
one's
gaze
particular.
art-crafts,
imparting
about
and
apprentice,
severely
you to,
like
give
will
we
pages
leading
resorts
so
a
a
his
being
should
he
visit
and
try
so
whatever
or
him
the
tool-using
a
from
which
that
of
some
influenced
do
seen.
pleasant
a
that
labour,
be
particular
;
the
to
me,
reader
tells
following
the
attention
to
else
helpful
in
anything In
and
that
walks
his
as
being
man
is
what
forget
can
life,
in
without,
progress
purpose
one
of
craft
a
he
certainly
someone
work
any
which
rejoice
should
who
portion,
in
of
rendering
follows
disappointments
and
animal
who
hobby
AMATEURS.
others'
amateur
a
miseries
FOR
accept
we
recreation,
than
CRAFTS
and
the
best
knowledge let
to
and
handicapped.
for
him
term
the
individual
some
pick the
want
it
way,
is
to
treat
the
up
helps of
the
which
seems
the
dodges, sional profesthe
i6
CRAFTS
ART
individualityinstead reproducers
No.
of
Sketch 7. is used as
FOR
of
the
AMATEURS.
being of
work
to
minds
other
copyists or
be
and
hands.
For
the Vine table-top in which is kept entirely flat,the effect being obtained chiefly by the grounding out," for beyond the veining of the leaves, and the slightcutting away of one form to give relief to another coming against it, the It would actual carving ends there. be possible to treat this design as a carving in low relief. By planning the design
design
"
the
for
content
carved
The
motif.
work
"
geometricallyit
surelyevery which to
are
one
born
matters
desires
to
in his brain
originate one's
own
which
side it is
not
from
be
original,to
"
his
designs
ego,
is for
as
express
seen.
the
it is termed. '
most
amateurs
ideas But the
CARVING.
IVOOD
directed
not
are
them
time
skill upon
it is
of
new
to
always
to
few
very
give them
life.
new
servilelyreproduced passing through ourselves, comes
panel of
of
to
engineerfriend
has
and
has
churches; and and
planning will work
look
out as
an
a
idea
whole,
this
plan
have
of
main
of
impress a
new
carving he
scription super-
bits
carving c
work
and
original.
tools,gets with
meets
is apt to
the look
It is essential in of how which
It is
one-ness.
a
are
skill in
some
scheme
of the
as
of
use
notion
central
lines
it
material,it
some
some
by
carving his hobby,
wood
unity of design.
gives it a
together and
of details until the and
to
being
suggested by
claim
to
of old
of such
in
wanting
of
departures made
the
exercises
one
arrangement
of
altered, and
was
7,
skill in the
in
scrappy
No.
made
designs by taking rubbings
selection
in
source
a
instead
and
any
personality
powerful us,
in
things
our
jnint with
men
his
unless
old
see
and
fact.
considerable
but
of
waste
the sun,
receiving the
minds'
One
carrying
departure
with
of
and
enable
obtained
fresh
adapted
important to sufficiently
means
high degree of
a
under
so
most
be
who
lavish
them
carving; yet
German
in
grievous
a
new
a
design,for instance,
old
involved
me
work,
our
to
are
possible to
it,in
hall mark
we
vine
The
Old
brain
out
purchased
make
can
our
be
nothing
to
stimulus
inspirationand
that
to
by colouring
and
way,
no
design.
it is
But
by
fingers,to
is
they
it ; yet it is
labour
seems
the
there
work.
:
the
unsuitable
or
poor that
given
branch a
a
know
We
it
merely employ
to
few
The
it because
attempt
about
set
quiteunworthy
and
out,
to
design?.
often
too
are
how
obtain
to
easy
few
comparatively
and "difficulty,
17
no
are
then
use
the
work
ties the
thinking
securelylaid, putting
them
i8
ART
all the
together later examples
No.
8.
"
very
frame, The
classed
the
as
as
lead
fragments
two
of
it
that
fmit
AMATEURS.
the
to
best
results.
seventeenth-century carving in
Church
border
FOR
cannot
on
characteristic
relief,so the
of
These
existing
from
CRAFTS
to
the
St. of the
can
Mildred, lime.
the in The
undercut.
panel, would design is admirably
"Grinling
are
met
with
make
in
8 and
9
Pulpit in the no-longerthe Poultry, London, are candng is in considerable The
each
festoons
pulpitof
be
from
Nos.
Take
frame,"
"
a
very
adapted
to
all work
which
good wood
which
was
picturecarving. has
been
Gibbons."
St. Mildred's
Church
(now
no
more), and
it
WOOD
CARVING.
19 .
will be
No.
seen
that there
is this
unity or
I
one-ness
of St. Mildred's, which Pulpit from the Church 9. stood in the Poultry, showing the general design. "
of the
work
on
a
larger scale
are
given
in No.
8.
justspoke of.
formeriy Portions
I
be
must
the
illustrations in such
feeble letterpress,
illustrate one's Moreover
take
one
of
trammelled
I
seek
to
to
of
bondage
the
Gothic, "
In
tradition
let
and
that
work
your
that, and
am
all
having looking
at
one
of
matter
way
for many
is the
three
latter
under
grouped
old
examples
ichool, and
I
:
there
the
of wood
have
all
checks
so
it should in
be
perfect
"
Learn
of
We
are
one.
claiming
his
every stantly con-
o?ie
way
rendering his impressions as
blinded
was
years
no
and
Rudyard Kipling,nine-and-sixty.I and
and
emphatically,
and
style.
copy
startingup and
nature no
the
above
the
else.
one
some
schools, but
critic
a
is
There
way.
of
ego
that
chaste
very
of
Virtue
I say
amateur
done
like
style
(H.
which
precedent
it is better
than
rococo,
in
the
yourself:
purist in
no
to
This
century
rest
the
so
rage cou-
the
thirteenth
exalted
to
the
to-day,
the
I
been
anything
Craftsman
a
to
just as
me
had
to
and
but
reader
precedent.
of
of
I.
I have
adherence
shadow
a
study
one,
be
even
style,"but
of
Training of
originalimpulse, and
I
instead
Limited, 1897),
Company,
all
is work
now
century
my
of
groove
Cinquecento, Frangois
Schools."
have
carvers
one.
way,
carving has
sadly hampering
want
we
nineteenth
the
is
for
only
adapt
can
a
better
can
leaving each
He
the
one
the
as
important
as
illustrated
them
Wood
of
out
past
originality.What of
will.
past that few
get
be,
showing
as
across.
come
the
by
find
them
he
being
efforts may
work
own
my
work
a
treating wood,
what
reject
material
adapt
give
not
way
and
one's
as
ideas,than
own
I do
merely
referringto
for
pardoned
designer,but as
AMATEURS.
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
20
to
head
at
are
least,according to
Gothic
am
the work of
in
sentiment,
which
for
venience con-
Renaissance.
carving I give this with
the
are
all of
intention, for
Yet the so
WOOD
much
amateur
work
wherein
Xo.
the
merely
is seen,
letter
of
servile copy
a
the
Gothic
spirithaving escaped,
of a portion ot the carved panels rough sketch in Trinity College, Oxford. The forming workmanship is as iine as anything I know, and the whole being pierced, has a and which is light elegant appearance design is delightful. The the ingenuity with which the curves play into very intricate, but lo.
"
each
Tiiis
is
other
festoons so
of
the
is
carving
the
that
CARVING.
are
often
a
Screen
evinces
good
met
with
angels' heads
it appeared work
which
much
skill
instances
of
in the
gives a
likelyto
and
the
seventeenth-century
decoration human
lead
is considered
of the
interest
to to
wreaths
The
resource.
more
be
to
time. the
The
"
and
conceits"
introduction
work.
useful ends
opposed
to
to
the
examine Gothic
AR2'
22
No.
II.
Nature
"
that
noticed nature
Notes
apples
should
be
to
nature"
"Truth
FOR
CRAFTS
used are
made
a
is
base
that
you
gain thereby.
in
making anything
feature
being
design upon, your of the certain features
AMATEURS.
of in
true
however
plant.
If
Designs 6 and round, and a carving based the grow'th of
but
to
much you
you
depart
may from
It will be 7. their angular ("n
the
the
apple. plant you
ornamentalise nature,
be
sure
ART
24
further
no
design,
of
The
No.
13.
two
"
Clock
AMATEURS,
could
remains
ore
genius
a
mine
that
sympathies
our
such
no
FOR
artistic salvation
any
all that
until
out
CRAFTS
as
to
us,
out
from
this great
fragments,
Bracket.
acanthus
it is
but
a
been
wilful
purview
our
seventeenth-century 8, from
No.
The
the
yield having
for
shut
in
of the flowers
introduction
worked
narrowing
the
work
of
carver.
pulpitin
the
in
leaf
the
no-
in the bracket
portion is a decorative conceit," though it is often possible to find time, while in such an apple tree flowering and fruitingat the same the usual and the it is as course : it is left plants blackberry orange well as his point of view. to the designer to select his example, as *'
longer-existingChurch conceit flowers an
is
adapted and
which
a
fruit,which
undulating one
to
scroll of
has
often
of
St.
Mildred's, show
pilaster. A are
attached
foliagetwists been
rod
central to
it
festoon
supports
the
by ribbons, while
around
worked,
the
and
it.
The
frame
will continue
to
f CARVING.
WOOD
be
carved, as it is the
as
carver,
so
thoroughlyadapted
designsseem of it are
Many modifications
swell
to
possible.
for Carved
Design
14,"
The
shelf the
supported by
is referred to,
tree
a position,
"
trees
panels.
The
The
are
spaces
forms
in
flowers.
wood, Wood
he as
is
carvingis
old work a
say
to
not
should
study that
of
is of
Nature there
run
nature,
one
imitate
n
no
alone
is
this
attire in wood.
in
is meretricious work to
content
though
these
guard against,viz., a
to
Gibbons' nature
occupying
suffice, but
tendency What
are
being architectural rendering place. The smaller
without the other.
danger
turn
individual
naturalistic.
Study of
might
to directly
of
more
I would
use
in No
as
flowers
parallel with and
be
to
also lend support to the shelf as dividing the length into
well
as
piece. Mantel-
naturalistic
too
be out
would
these
the tree.
supportedby in
Oak
is intended
projectingcapitalson
side, while
either
"
moulding.
of the
out
of the
the needs
to
he
is that when
attempt were
to
of
some
he refers
his
imitate
modelling
wax
but carrying out imitation,
a
26
ART
CRAFTS
design, which wood
by
be
to
tools, the
the
imagination, in
the use
to
learn
how
follow' is
craft you
which
of
true
practice,and
of
needs
the
of
effort
has
adapt
to
learn
to
how
design.
to
is
There
think ; it is
of
merely
will
We
outline
as
bracket
lamp
of which There
no
suit
have
in hand.
of
the
be
told
in
let
our
we
stalks
fancy
we
adequately
middle
of the
shown
in the
or
we
the
allude
of
growth
in
where
the
the
the
we
in
leaves
around
the
in
and
our
this
and
details at
so
our
render
we
taste
fruit that
well
simplifying.
passing to
my
own
can
stems
to
are
we
or
come,
render
can
command.
the
as
base
pencil study, but
a
depart
must
we
branches
twist the
we
flowers
we
shall
do
work
way
means
about
pull nature
terminal
in
untruth
an
piece of
upon
simplifythe
how
the
the
apple.
the
as truthfully
loose
with
of
exigency
books, sketch-
(No. 13),both
tell
and
few
carrying out
the
ever
see
a
ii
of my
of
twist
may
involved
No.
one
cause be-
this,and
in
bracket
should
growth
flower? way
clock
we
instance, that
simplifyingher,
than
why
or
from
suggestion of
a
carving as
our
obvious, for
more
with
their
and
in the way
them
the
themselves
into
give
I
desirous
one
any
The
branches, arrange and
to
much
fancy
our
design.
apple, taken
reason
design,however
to
the
treated
a
good
A
they think,
little closer
and
for
to
appear end.
to
a
nature,
(No. 12), or
are
is
of
help
a
making
with
start
studies
look
us
in
is involved
what
mysteriousness,as
Let
some
means
design
to
attempt
never
in the effort.
designing, as
adaptation of
an
certain
a
in
mystery
no
amateurs
many
a
much
AMATEURS.
an
of certain
means
to
itself
is in
acquired by
nature
FOR
from
I do
by
nature
in
stamens as
is
It
the
ingenuity not
wish
work, lest
some
is to
CARVING.
WOOD
should
reader way,
but
that
I
direct
it is pretty
going
nature
for
ration, inspi-
is the
of nature say is most
that he should
to
making
studies
of
the
in
forms medium.
with
of
in
books,
get
to
practiceI
work
too,
Sketch
never
plant except it, and
that,
times.
many
with sees
will
a
by drawing
see
should
one
you
know
other
(though
why they
skilled
of
such
poor) compared
the
for
tive sugges-
as
be
little
15."
plants,
pencilor
may
reason
be
not
extent
Poor
a
me
study nature
himself,
studies
to
of studies
books
upon
No.
Take
Stalls
the
shape
various
of
apple,how
an
it is !
What
angles its sides
round
"
"
square
it is !
rather
How
than
truthful
Cockayne
carving brought from !
century.
It
in
century, and execution.
Choir
Hatley
this
The
church
was
Italy early in this probably dates from
early part in
of the
one
Bedfordshire.
fine
tiful beaumake
of
in
Church,
the
How
the
nature
part
let
And
amateur.
should
but
no
the
on
photographs
or
lead
likelyto
add, too,
used
I should
one
originalwork
/ have
adaptation
free
a
way
plain
in
and
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believe to
of the
think
to
come
27
of
the
is very and
style,
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28
you
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CRAFTS
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FOR
AMATEURS.
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/(TnnniRin'r I 'twM-
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bird
helpfulj in
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low
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keep
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An
place
in
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TT^
carving.
highly ornamental
I
wings
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as
can
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Japanese is necessary
treatment
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"
from
adapted ,cai-ving, ornamental
apple,
and be
seen
tail lend in the
diagram.
getting
no
two
exactly
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!
If you
try
to
carve
your
CARVING.
WOOD
will
mechanical,
No.
17.
"
and
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their
Gibbons
result
of
be
may
Flat
nature,
be
!
is in
of
because
tame,
the
work
of
suggesting
Cheese
Box, and
examples
how
Where
help
Bread
Good
to
simple
Box,
from
how
other you
Soetersdal
patterns well
adapted
purpose.
pull
devices.
the
Jug?,
Thelemark.
to
may
times
and
men
reference
without
apples
29
twist
and If
did
we
not
look evolve
into
nature at a
the
screen
quaint (No.
cunning
and
10)
design logicallyfrom
we
some
find one
ART
30
plant, but
CRAFTS
he
scroll-work
the
acanthus-like
is evolved
wreaths,
two
of laurel
and
design
the
breath
is
is
design.
professingto
designing is It
is directed
our
point
books to
teach
certain
a
as
adapt
there
the
method
will
gain
carves,
a
is
do no
and
shapes.
term
I lean
vine "
to
in No.
; for
a
7,
though
than
background the
wreaths
for
the
as
bons, rib-
and
yet in the
; and
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as
attribute
form
suit the
and
as
an
an
make
a
teach
for music
conditioned
by
various
just endeavoured anyone
shape of
producing it,and cultivate
ear
as
design, but
taught, though
it,and
about
to
in
intuition,and
I have
than
might
you
"conceits"
mystery
in
lief attempt
versifier and
be
about
while analysis,
elude
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to
write
subject to
cannot
so.
employed confidence
a
fondness
of
mental
view, and
natural
some
a
number
much
profess to
show,
as
would
it,I
by feelingand
of
them.
conceits
scheme
difficult
might produce
You
might
we
are
highly ornamentalised,
are
a
motifs
"
like the
"
naturally
These
copy
such
if it has principles,
Its
student
to
more
no
the
flowers
by
up
conceit.
certainlya
There
a
confess
must
of
nature,
more
into
imported
I
to
the
was
top he introduces
conceits
"
artist,though
blossoms, held
artificial motifs,as
of fruit,no are
the
scrolls.
stem
introduced
grapes
bunches
poet.
the
of
main
the
and
of
of the
motifs.
scroll-work
at
one
from
introduction
tendrils
for
such
hesitate
is evolved
the
which
that
festoons
from
might
some
which
without
and
fancy
and
distinct
more
the
artificial arrangements,
purely
or
But
down
suspended
are
them,
lower
two
time.
of the
one
ribbonS; while treated
by
show
leaves
property
common
the
together
weaves
The
AMATEURS.
FOR
eye for
can
start
to
the
article and
by
degrees
he
agreeable lines,
ART
32
CRAFTS
Hand-cunning, recommend
tools, and a
how
to
practicalcarver, like the
work the
No.
to
here
and
then
for
taught,
work
on,
7, in which of
there
taking
out
in
of
simple out"
is
carving
under
vein
a
with
actual
coming
of
use
lessons
grounding
*'
work, the
form
the
few
a
would
I
in
beginning
the
the a
and
instruction
carving, to get
taking down
and
be
another
the
leaves
Gurnard and Japanesque'y for low water, treated of other of water, form';, is as Japanese treatment of study valuable and is most course ornamental, as a ingeniously all think, The to to see, )d-carvers. ( r by all wo Japanese appear call a decorative i.e.,they devel""p the we objects in what way, o f else the ornamental simplify it by showing or possibilities object, gre.it restraint in rendering it. Panel 19. relief. The "
(though
see
a
this to
attempt
of
must
give the
certain
where
every the
get the series
tool
be
not
I hate
smoothness
show. of
of well-directed
a
a
touch
which
work
roughness marks
of
appearance
tool
and In real
the
"
there
for
overdone,
severity,even
carving.
wood
Let
about
vine. No.
confined
and
one,
set
AMATEURS.
can
wishing
important part
most
being
a
however,
one
any
FOR
real
"
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mark
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smooth is
as
wax,
polished
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apple, but give
angular cuts,
no
I like to
leaves).
of the is
be
must
the
contour
equivalent
to
and away. don't
by the
CARVING.
WOOD
facets
of
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Avanted upon where
is
nature
well
as
in
No.
table
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on
then 14,
I
be
a
two
and
the
13.
The
shelf in
is intended two
brackets and
is still
work
supported by
shaped
for
either
would
be carved blocks
to
jecting pro-
at
these
distinct
ot
out
of two
of
wood,
Xo.
20.
Design
"
Bellows
The each
with "
a
of
stem
the
purpose.
the
"
"
tree
pilastersupports leaves, and
l)etween
the
shelf
them
a
could to
For
help
in
Front
the head
carved
lor
high
refer
relief.
No.
to
15.
in
these
behind
conceit, though
under
vour endea-
my
relief, though
relief.
course
drawn, it has been
and high relief,
design
end,
effigy.
waxen
mantelpiece No.
where
his
the
to 12
in
the
in low
a
grounding
"
Nos.
in very
in
;
work,
which
out," going
not
flat
for
in
are
palls
ject sub-
7, suitable
practiseone
which
that
genteel, decorous
as suggestedas successfully
with
top,
brackets
work
is
what
of treatment,
as
beginning
The
'all is suave,
in which
give varietyof
to
alive."
"
illustrations I have
In the
as
is to look
work
is that
one
vigorous cuttingis
Crisp,nervous,
gem.
a
33
brackets,
I^have natural also
which
indicated one.
project further
support D
the
shelf.
bird
a
The
carved
are
nesting
smaller
than The
the
trees
flowers
roots
are
31
ART
developed,
as
There
is
CRAFTS
will
nothing
be in
FOR
AMATEURS.
noticed, into the
of
arrangement should
be
this
effort of
there
is
of
to
panels,
and
little.
is
always
and
a
laurel 21.
.
Design
"
Bellows a
of
for
Front.
carved
The
high
rendeiing long-eared owl, in relief. A quaint,
rather
than
naturalistic birds
or
forms
is
a
pretty,
rendering other
type of
flowers
nature
the
of
upright
dividing trees,^
effective
in
like the
could
be
carving Portugal
taken
such
animal
particular^tree being rather
the
as
Iris
and
are
at
spaces treated
rally
the
as
well-known
Tulip,Narcissus,. used
fill in the
to
these
top,
somewhat to
being
character
trees"
than
made the
:
dividingthe no
these
be
with
the
of
the
space
inta
reference
direct may
natu-^
more
contrast
severer
in this class of work.
growth
that
shrub
panels, any
the
type, while
"
to
roots^
of
generally to be The Gothic preferred. a are good grotesques have to be Iore example one
the
such
bird,
convtntional the
inta
ornamental
any
in
and
the
free treatment
A
foliage, as panel
are
up
treated
suggestiveness at.
there
plant as
emphasising
hints
What
developing
parts of the
a
imagination^
be
spaces
by
dividing
to
of
invention,
features
due
that
scope
evolved
the
but
ornamental is
the
for
i.e.,something pure
design
beyond
amateur,
an
feature.
ornamental
an
taken
representation of
an
as
a
indi-
CARVING,
WOOD
vidual
intervals.
the
often
and
and
surface
all work
it is
obtaining
relief
In of all
the
over
referred
work.
much
can
be
the
woodpecker) and
carvers
to
leave
them
other
side
the
emphatic
birds, which,
design,nor select
should fresh
a
Personally, I carving: often
fact.
I
the
like
You
the
Gibbons
latter is and
his
angels'heads,
not to
to
the
repeat which
forms
such
it is
repeated,for
be
panel
give varietyto
introduction
of
the
human
very
The
repeat forms
to
done
"
animal
so
as
the easy
were
forms
in
figure,because insult
an
contemporaries
and
Some
space.
badly
so
terest of in-
it would
poverty
but
be
prefer them, indeed,
the
:
leaves.
may
the
"sprigs"
squirrelor birds, like
introduced
for each
one
less
trunk.
birds
of mental
flowers
much
(suggestedby
of the
the
ornament,
rule, are
roots
give a point
to
a
birds.
as
pure a
have
just
the
the
birds
substitute
and
indication
an
have
I
are
shelf,while The
motifs
positionin
architectural
minus
panel
might
of
class
panels again
the
this
desirability
the
same
upright line
the
the
forms
as
do
lightly
background.
introduced
out
nearly approach
too
an
up
prefer
nuthatch, for it is
to
occupy
have
I
break
to
may
such
side
naturalesque.
more
lie
ornamentally (even
treated
they
produce
panel, and
trees,"therefore,
The
as
amateurs
to
way
in mind
bear
to
that
your
of your
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they
as
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removed
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not
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by
ornament).
naturalistic
easy
important
to, should
become
deal
good
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a
ing occupy-
carving should
the
"
flowers
remark
wood, Your
shifting
"
the
should
I may
clumsiness.
gracefully upon
means
wood
of
much
too
with
case
design,and
leave
heaviness
the
Plenty
this
carrying out too
is not
plant,which
35,
fond
beautifully they
to
man,
of
carved
in
ducing intro-
them.
ART
Sb
Those 15,
the
the
main
wings
is
suggest
carver,
No.
AMATEURS.
FOR
stalls
features
the
treatment
a
Frame
of chair
after the
Early Eighteenth
My unless you
advice you
can
confident
to
amateurs
feel up
venture
in your
to on
The
might,
keep
an
animal essay
to
to
a
skilful
style of Grinling Gibbons. Century.
foliageand form,
a
treatment
arms.
is,don't attempt the
it ;
powers
and
drawing only
the
carving.
happy, particularly
Picture
22."
of
Hatley Church,
Cockayne
at
exquisitelywrought, though
are
indicates of
choir
the
on
No.
CRAFTS
child's
and
human
figure until
ornament
then
if you
head, and
then
feel be
WOOD
and
sure
a
know
finds
sculptor I in
modelHng "
Heads
in the
National
simplifiednature the
to
antithesis
3d
are
going than
more
what
the
leave
to
out
to
power
eyes
hair ? for this
can.
It is the
seize
; it
away
a
carving
a
the
feit counter-
piece of or
how
be imitated
cannot
story of knowing
old
tion, restraint,selec-
means
essentials,and
on
be
treatment,
the
throw
or
are
distinct
a
give
this needs
head, and
a
render
to
You
nature.
be should
to
attempts
children
painter has
would head
carved
your
useful
AngeJs'
"
his
the
helpful,as
more
One
very
Reynolds'
that
say
doll, which of
children
of
paintings,which
for
wax
like
shaped
you
any
a
imitation
or
wo
in his
living child.
a
Gallery,and, indeed,
still
carver,
of
from
studies
I should
be
37
photographs
heads.
generally,would
help
few
make
CARVING.
ignore
that
which
is
accidental. In
carving animal
knowing
how be
to
not
language show No.
of
wing, when
The
hair
curved is
a
a
should not
down.
put
a
becomes
be
at, may
head
not
of
a
work.
be
must
as
so
little shadow
hairs. not
we
surface
be were
all
over
a
as
the to
in A
ornamental
in
student found.
wherever
thought of
many
if
very
direct the
suggestions
feathers, and
the
wings, and
as
are
help
interestingfeature
an
Hair, again, must
by roughing
little
a
adaptations of Japanese
ornamental
child's
forms, and
of
forms
such
carve
into
them
be
good general principleto
all
arrangement
an
mass
and
It is
of
thought it might
some
looked
so
develop
to
seen
translate
to
analyseitsstructure,
we
form, and, if
I
great difficulties is in
Hair, feathers, scales
have
you
Japanese
will be
of the
one
textures.
wood.
the
carving.
render
copied,
how 16
to
forms,
a
series
of
wing, again,
A
fluffybewildering
indicated
drawing with
where the
lines.
we
object,
38
ART
Bul
wood
by
a
out,
"
counsel
one
If
we
to
train
of the
how
it has
best
he
The
become,
in
taste
artist learns
Century.
time, but
into
go
the
by imitation
give,though
what our
learn
Sixteenth
Frame.
knows
done
can
know
is what
the
as
to
practice
what can
festoon
b)' much
trifle tiresome.
to difficulties,
either
has
carver
Mirror
he
this is not
That
in
what
Just
to.
difficulty
a
considerable
fitness, which
of
is
surfaces
by
overcome
is characteristic
a repetition,
translate
be
the
so
AMATEURS.
said, rendering
amounts
Tuscan
23. border
FOR
sense
carving
leave
No.
only
can
directed
to
all is
when
which
CRAFTS
and
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avoid
artistic
language
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be
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how
some
or
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one
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definite
help to
else has
craft.
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worked,
do.
perception everything in
time
can
ART
40
One work
CRAFTS
well-known better
patterns,
from the
as
FOR
told
carver
charcoal
rough
does
cartoon
AMATEURS.
that
me
sketches
not
he
than
trammel
modelled
as
modelled
sketches
do
ling model-
patterns you
your could
beside?,,
;
are
you
half
them, time
carve
and
is
to
amateurs.
such
work
as
a
details
spaces
until been
vided di-
up
and
the
lines and
No.
once
it will
14,
shelf
portance first im-
the to
our
Gothic
(Mr.
W
rest, and
H.
also
serve
capitalsof
after that to
break
see
of
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seen
24.
for.
arranged
Referring
No.
your
have
constructive forms
tel-piece man-
think
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ject ob-
planning a large
In
to
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with
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from
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finds
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in
supports
side
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higher relief than to
the
top of the mantel
the
shelves,which into
panels
or
WOOD
Having
spaces.
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styles around
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of
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Those
taking
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done
be
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side of
and
work, and
certaintyof touch, which
upon
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good
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been
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panel
and
as
a
fewer we
come
to
6, in
it
for
with
2, could
be
to
such
a
a
as
natural
themselves
with
for
no
and
carving
successful
cal mechani-
the
to
is
wood
one
rigid
there
working be
can
no
precisionof execution,
quality of carving depends. Chapter
I.,
No.
or
preliminary
some
of
the
by
the
mirror
frame.
to
carve
on
the
beginner,
geometrical pattern like No.
has
work
work a
are
24
practice
Much
flowing design
design
panels, instead
suggested
easilywrought or
effect
appliance for holding
requires some
more
of
an
the
feeling.
purely symmetrical difficulties than
the
every
plainer than
two
equip
it is
thai
after
carve
curves
coffer. No.
of
No.
as
unless
what some-
less with
breadth
being paid
sharpness
no
much
so
Such
scrolls
attention
been
architectural.
should
being worked,
so
the
the
on
decorate
spaces
so
and
borders
to
have
are
criticise
to
competed
and
treated
are
have
mistake
might
gouges,
without one's
have
fillingof
carving
it is
ventured
Relief
niches
properly secured
be
can
the
up
good chisels
some
the
severe,
growth, seeing that
one
by leaving some 2
so
the spaces
to
as
equally.
No.
being quite
so
surfaces
the
then
the
details.
Chapter I.,
that
5 should
obviously a
work
others, while of
character,
5, in
No.
that
No.
the
arrange
see
urge
in
panels
obtained
be
only
can
the
for it is
panels,
might
one
in
severer
If
ornament.
to
we
and geometrically,
up
features,it is, comparatively
seat
designs
these
analyse
we
the
or
2,
main
business
easy
No.
41
all these
settled
speaking, an Take
CARVING,
24.
No.
presents When 25,
we
ART
42
are
CRAFTS
FOR
AMATEURS.
and gettinginto difficulties,
ambitiouSjTail,and small
by valued
so
be
done
Much
gettingused
to
be
can
their
wise
not
discouraged :
successes.
when
it is
far better
is
that
foolishly age gain cour-
to interesting
accomplished by
tools, and
be
to
acquiring
after
command
some
with
and
varietyand
in
not
amateurs
be
to
at
what
knowing
amples ex-
through
pages,
ought
the
of
wealth
scattered these
and
amateurs
them,
over
do
loss
a
shall
they
do.
No.
In a
of
treatment
with
front
intended
to
relief, so
as
No.
25.
Venetian
"
Sixteenth in
high
being
should
not
the
craftsman
considerable
be
would
greatly enhance
depends in
the
upon
light and
treated
would
away
with
shade. a
Tn
the
of
of The
mental orna-
would
in
be
the
same
of
the
plane
as
the
nose
in
give the
masses
allow
to
wings
has
practice
cut
half
tempted at-
simpler work.
being
in
be
highest part
Frame.
This
Century. rehef until
had
Mirror
is
carving
undercutting.
some
the
article
the
The
carved.
ing, blow-
suggests
of
purpose
bellows
a
head
a
this
as
give
I
20,
a
wood
around
depth
of
No.
shadow 21
quaint rendering
"
you
is another of
an
while
owl,
the
the
head which
shadow
Carving
effect. of
head,
in
high
have
to
bellows to
be
relief think front
carved
CARVING.
WOOD
in
reUef.
high
study
to
obvious
and
head,
a
more
difficult
is
it
in
modelling As
It
regards
is
by
Gibbons
which
is
probably and
pine,
free
tools.
gilding, wood.
would
clay wood,
his
for
light
and
have
Such
should
is
has
one
a
found
design be
is
and
work:
and
and
of
one
acquired
some
wrought
23, in
more
in
work
in
these
pine
to
it
No.
as
design,
be
be
can
which
Cedar
gilded,
good
carved
with
of
is
other
22,
would
woods.
command
or
used
were
frame
a
and
suitable.
very
sycamore
frames
as
No.
the
popular,
most
fanciful
even
excellent,
as
the
such
for
is
carving,
round,
fire-places
Lime
in
it
helpful.
course,
carved
knots,
when
preliminary
some
carve.
well,
cut
from
Here
graceful,
been
in
get
we
for
goes,
the
of
light
preparatory
skill
flat
the
brackets
to
good
a
approaches
be
oak,
as
mahogany
rapidity
carve.
wood
good
a
to
articles
such
from
work
our
be
manipulative
as
further
the
would
work
a
far
so
that
the
for
Such
43
adapted free
one's
for
cutting
CHAPTER
BEATEN
III.
METALWORK
OR
is
HERE
no
amateur
in
take
metal.
distinction
be.
line
printed from, line
produced
produced
by
a
"
the
itself
work
surface
is
design
of
couplet
appropriate
An
qualities
craftsman
of
beaten
prominence,
for
of
a
Lend
the
lend
is
design
should
reproduction.
method
the
design partly by beating
by
work
from
the
front.
brought
are
the
in
one
always Now,
and
makes
it
be
in,
that
words
in
"
which into be
the
One
can,
for
the
to
well that
the
tasteful
poet
nuity inge-
metal.
the
peculiar
well-considered conditioned
repousse
from
there
fairly
beaten
of
out
silver,
as
of
a
is the
paraphrase
skill and
the
to
preciousness
"
design metal
the
to
"
has
looks
might
We
metal
indifferent
anything
because
"
work
we
being
repousse.
designer
whether
which
pattern
a
delightful
So
r
it which
so
of
c
when
has,
value,
interest.
steel
out, in
unique
an
bitten
a
a
poor
about
hammering
hammering,
thy voice,"
of
of the
it
or
Longfellow's
music
gives
absorbing
the
beats
wrought
and
as
lacks,
means
up
by
of
he
when
the
of
brass, pewter
danger
a
which
produced
copper,
other
any
beating
"
preciousness
the
by
give
to
copper
quality
a
in
however
Just
on
the
work
seems
design,
a
itself it may
engraved
than
up
Metal to
craft
fascinating
more
can
beaten
REPOUSSE.
back
we
and
instance,
by
produce partly start
by
BEATEN
WORK
METAL
OR
outliningthe design by punching
the
of
The
it is
and
the
the
design can flow
metal swell
of
the
when and
out
We
must
up
exercise
the
upon
inch
an
relief, while
from
it up
(one might and
metal
selection
lose
flat
Lniuiu
be
merely
this
to
siderable con-
the
flowers
danger
of
into
the
might
leaves
less
or
amount
copper
the
retire
the
more
punched
beat
portions
some
up
up
having
Plaque, suggested by
always
you
front,and
background
sea), find itself
judiciously beating accent.
is
45
obtain
to
to
The
up.
basket-work
there
possible, but
through
beaten
be
beat
hammer
"
to
as
the
depends
26. Original Design for Tray or The Speciosum. foliage in low intended
and
so
half-an-inch
from
"
is
back,
possible to
relief
from
pitch,and
of reHef
amount
beating,for
No.
the
from
design
relief.
in
the metal
this,bed
done
REPOUSSE.
are
lined, out-
on.
of
breaking The
extent.
liken it
to
and itself,
the ebb
by
thus
give it variety and
we
in
settlingwhat
part
46 of
ART
scheme
our
completed some
and
CRAFTS
one
work
No.
27." while
very
in
by beating
up
where
be
outlined, or
The
petals of
while relief,
one
at
leaf
the flowers
the
stamens
are
be
should
behind
kept
nearest
still
can
the
be
higher
only punched
able consider-
relief.
In
in very low relief, in higher relief. be
only just
than
the centre
others,
out
give
we
a
leave
we
way
it need
another
lower
effect of
bring
we
foliage to
insects
comes
all events
into
The
26, for instance, the leaves and
the
upon
design
our
Original Design for Tray. and the frog, chameleon
up,
for high relief,
while relief,
low
features
two
or
in
up
AMATEURS.
largely depends
prominence
No.
beat
we
portions in to
FOR
those
might in
on
be the
beaten
only
in front. in fuller
front.
48
ART
CRAFTS
produced by hammering, a
"
Original Design plain metal or or the
relief,while
marks a
should
piece of nicely wrought
]s4^o_^o. min
"
produce
a
AMATEURS.
FOR
for
be
metal
Hanging and
stars
should
series of facets which
preciousness,"and
that
Candle-holder The
bat
If
find
we
in centre.
sunflower
valued.
in silver such
the
with
examine hammer
either
a
and be
alone a
we
rays in very low in higher relief.
gives the
surface
is far
metal more
METALWORK
BEATEN
beautiful frosted
No.
than in
31." metal
is to
highly polished plate. which
appearance,
Original Design
flowers
in centre. and
owl
The in
The
stars
be
and
metal
to
beat
Yet
this surface,
by beating silver,
with
leaves
49
in low
mirror
or
relief,while
plain the
relief.
valued, so used have
highly polishedplate of best
obtain
we
for Candle-holder
higher
only just beginning to the
REPOUSSE,
OR
we
become
commerce.
is copper, E
as
it is very
tough
and
CRAFTS
ART
so
elastic. is
is harder, and
Brass
pleasanter than
belt
and
given
"
Frame
up
effective. There
elsewhere.
brittle than
more
worked
Pewter
chatelaine
a
frequently
was
eighteenthcentury craftsmen,
pewter
for effectively
very
electro-
The design is beaten Repousse Copper. majoiity of examples given. (Fivemiletown,
No.
is
than
copper,
and
beat
up
well, and
reasonably they
wrought
some
Fisher
Silver
in
of the
plates
pewter
picked
in, but
work
brittle.
more
Tyrone.) It is softer
Hers.
therefore
Mr.
and
used
has
Ashbee
Mirror 32. in, the reverse Co.
Old
to
seventeenth
the
by Mr.
No.
is
in it which
used
brass
Steel is used, and
copper.
AMATEURS.
FOR
a
by
method
a
should
Gilbert
Mr.
46 is
very
Marks
eating away
as
a
they I
which
of beaten
easily.
beaten
tried.
be
good example
of
be
can
to
are
be
have
seen
were
very
pewter.
portion of
the
copper
METALWORK
BEATEN
with
nitric acid
beating The
them
punched
round,
this alone transfer
Brunswick this is
with
the
sides
black
and
flat
acid.
nitric
acid
quickly
portions not the acid
operation
of
doors,
it. If it were
upon
When
away.
tray, then
a
perform out No.
33.
objectionable.
You
"
Heraldic
Beast.
the
as
are
very well
covered
acid
the
will
its way
eat
this the
acid
be
the
acid
attackingany part
off
into
the
left,and
bottle,wash in
the
action
of the
for the
length of
acid
places is
time
will
you
well with
also
must
through
do with
not
wish
black.
In
quickened by warming the
acid
must
remain
If you
find it
acided, pour
water,
warm
that
pinhole that
any
enlarge.
soon
see
Brunswick
the
with
copper
your
may
"dry touch
eaten
you
the
as
be
to
with
paint over
then
works
better
black,
and
might
You
pattern.
Pure
and
have
metal
the
to
the
and
keep
had
fumes
to
back,
the
at
pet para-
to
in the
relief
through
you a
of wax,
it
be
face, sur-
then
make
mark
should
acid
the
by
relief.
further
them
acid.
the a
left in relief
acided, or
not
parts
give
to
as
the
51
to
the
If it be
you
further
design
only
in
must
to
as
quite hard, pour
cover
pour
so
black
have
you
design
gives
your
leaving
slightlyso
up
of the
edges
either
and
REPOUSSE,
OR
cold the on,
and
when
weather
the
metal.
As
nothing
very
ART
52
definite
can
be
if it had
than
FOR
CRAFTS
said.
When
been
used
AMATEURS.
the acid before.
is
it works
new
From
quicker half-
a-quarter
to
an-hour
would
produce
a
decided The
very-
result.
surface
acid
the
by
given
broken
is
a
but
one,
unpleasant.
not
26
and
might
be
Nos. 27
largely wrought by adding
away
backgrounds.
the
second
the
In
the whole
design of
ground back-
the
could
be
to
a
removed certain
depth by
the
acid,
then
the
and
surface with
covered
nish stopping-outvar-
such
"
sold No.
34.
Heraldic
"
Dragon,
suggested
Sixteenth-century Renaissance, in human the blending of animal or
by
ornameDt
is often
met
this The
ground
with
a
form
and
and
the
spider-
with.
sharp instrument
frog,chameleon,
for etchers
Rhind
which
web on
Mr.
by
the
"
with
is
as
and
insects could
marked
further
then
out
acided.
be beaten
up
METALWORK
BEATEN
and
wrought
as
could
would
should
do
edges, leaving
the
relief obtained but
the
by
the
be
must
the
thought
No.
In
in, and
eaten
design
the
beaten
particularlythe
"
flowers
the
at
the whole
corners
and
away
be
then
stopping-,
varnish, the
work
scratched
this and
eaten
the work
with
covered
"
of the background
could
out
the
background
be
then
either
26
basket-work could
by
out
for himself.
worker
up
and
these
considerations
other
or
in
foHage just
acid;
to
outline
an
round
it
say
merely
hammer
the
fohage,
the I
though
in repousse,
basketaw
ay
on
bitten in.
-^"^- 35Original Design for place Panel fur Side of Firea "
other
or
treated
with
a
purpose, decorative
of sea-weed, sea-horses, fish and shell.
rendering The
wavy can
in, bitten omitted.
lines be in with
in
ground back-
punched acid, or
OR
REPOUSSE.
53
ART
54
acid
The
has
the
design,so
the
edges be
cover
your
used
it is
of the
might
well
as
developed
by
Original
36. "
If
Sunflower.
modified
be
can
flower
punched fine bradawl
in the
lines
other
or
so
away be
the coarse
ground
for the
come
the
of
tool, and
the
should
enough
within
dish,
that
to
with
away
by the the circle,
outside
The
circumference.
the
a
suggested
come
the
could
similar
Dish
metal
on
You
amateur.
Repousse leaves, which
of
edges
littlebeyond
Etching
ground
wax
the
centre
holes
having
front.
scratched
portions from
some
a
by scratching this
hollow the
in from
soft
to
as
so
the
forms
ingenious
then
Design desired,
black
for this.
allow
a
into
its way
eat
paint your
an
with
metal
to
to
to
pattern
by etchers, and
No.
to
tendency
a
AMATEURS.
FOR
CRAFTS
to
away.
tell at
can
Afterwards
beat
The
back. not
applying acid, you
be a
too
tool
you you
fine, as
distance.
use
your
can
to
eat
up
scratch
lines
want
5^
ART
it is obvious
that
flat metal
it
treat
the
the
FOR
further
removed
the
skill and
greater
38.
"
or
candle-holders
Rose-Water
tyro'sattention
the
craft.
candle-holders centres
our
work
is from
the
required to
knowledge
Dish
could
I
give for
when in
in
and
Nos.
has
on
mastered 31
walls.
the
flat metal
engage
School
Crafts.
and
30
to
Chiswick
Repousse Copper.
he
hanging
either be
capital articles
are
cf Arts
the
AMATEURS.
successfully.
Sconces
No.
CRAFTS
or
the
rudiments
suggestions for In
mirrors.
both
cases
The
stars
of two
the and
METALWORK
BEATEN
in No.
rays be
beaten
are
30 up
39. the can
the
Sticks could
such
"
in the
Design
worker.
for
Poppy. wrought with edges. be
must
be
be
beaten or
No.
brazed
3
1
the
sockets
with
a
to
could
by
those
skilful
get them
presents
no
the
hold
to
cast
be
the
enough for you
in
candle-
airangement
pierced,but avoid
might
bat could
if desired
cutting
out
of it of
themselves
candle-holders
The
on.
The
decorative
edge is shown plain edge so as
a
57
sunflower
The
out
you
treated
relief.
low
the
centre
Dish,
Opium
work,
in very
be
little further,while
a
fuller relief,and
No.
to
REPOUSSE.
OR
to
undertake
by
specialdifficulty.The
a
brass leaves
58
ART
should should the
in
be be
no
distinctive
with The
No.
than
more
be
in
just the edge mirror
two
32,
practice,though and
character
class.
No.
the
I,
is well
be
of
design
the
reader
accompanying
these
notes
certainlyseems animal
of be
can
to
of
number
forms,
I
on
to
of these
them, while
others
very
strikingfeature
No.
34
look
to
my
reHef, such the
fitness
as
space,
which
I have
of
the
cover
in beaten
house
a
the
in the
plain room
was
and
33
34,
with
decorated inches
of
animal
forms
with
a
put
square,
part of the
chimney
quaint animals
wrought
lower had
Nos.
ment treat-
metal.
was
six
about
squares were
in
barbaric
heraldic
The
instanced
as
or
savage
in
for the
penchant
hammered
metal, and
this hammered
ornament
being
a
copper.
Renaissance, suggested by sixteenth-century
was
is
designs
the
from a
suit repousse.
effective
very
gather
touch
panels,
copper
Some
blending
will that
in
saw
together like tiles breast.
to
me
in
work
village
and
out,
decorative
a
rendered effectively
most
fireplace
A
than
of
little
a
get the finish
pleasantly occupies
A
grotesque.
to
i, and
chap,
successful
very
animals
of
repousse', and
and
of
naturalness.
mere
Quaint renderings
quaint
this
possesses
preferredto
a
rims, as
after to
expect
instead
in
which
and
balanced,
far to
of
work
i,
undertaken
be
cannot
effective
less
edges
appearance
Ireland, No.
might
amateur
the
thin
it
flat metal.
from
is beaten
32
is far
thinking No.
of
outside
and
at
make
to
as
stars
moon
into rounded
beaten
papery
of the
frames
the
be
so
the
in the
owl
The
sconce.
very
articles that
are
The
further,
up
the
a
flowers,while
the
just seen.
should
work
a
AMATEURS,
than
beaten
feature
give
FOR
relief
candle-holders
it would end
lower
could
top
these
CRAFTS
a
the
very
of
feature
noticeable
59
obtain
reader
can
can
adapt
he
which
old work
suggestionsfrom
many
The
work.
such
REPOUSSE.
OR
WORK
METAL
BEATEN
to
his
specialrequirernents. I confess in which
No.
is
nature
home
at
more
am
such
on
a
"
Design Ragged
be
to to
be
material
individual
This
within
more
be
can
historyand
for
covered.
found
botany, to
express
class
the
in
while
of
scope
rendering of introduced to give
are a
border
butterflies
of
of
amateur,
the
35,
suit the
to
would
considerable
No.
decorative
the
and
On
as
design
museums
himself.
design
arranged
only simplifiedand
Bowl, with a Repousse snail Tulip. The frog and have base to variety to the design. The treated. ornamentally 40. the
space me
I
books scope
other
appear
on
the
as
natural
is left for
hand,
to
the
the
work
! 6o
ART
known of
action.
worked and
Renaissance It is
in the
bounded
41."
Bowl
constant
I
past, and,
Victorian." to
utter
AMATEURS.
does
for
has
Mr.
prefer the upon
in such This
art
been
breathe
a
deserts
hot orchid
naturalesquedesign of Daffodils, Marks.
air
This
outside.
reference
contemptuouslyterm
by precedent inspiration
stagnation ; then
trammelled
so
the air of
bracing
we
thoroughly
very
past models, without as
liberty
volition almost
my
Gilbert
more
much
one
myself,I feel
Silver with
in beaten
leave
not
that
attemptingto
working
nature, ends
"
mine
a
by
house;
FOR
by precedent that
It is like
me.
No.
'^
as
CRAFTS
is the
time
to
go
seems
to
to
"early to
the
lead well-
spring of
familiar
very
adapted of
out
shell is
a
another
to
necessary
rehef
low
they
be
Coming
of
around
the
number
of
metal
sides. small
I
can
It
is
hardly
in
in very
against
comes
the
thought
ground backde
trop^
of
oneself
dish
the
punched
into
the
copper
am
needlesslyis that
such
the way
be
any
warranty
for
to
by
using
the
them
a
steel
a
in
used
believe
punches
frequently employed
were
often I
the
have
with
puristin
no
ot
wrought
could
are
backgrounds. I
be
to
dish
but
cutting
constitutes
the
designs
the
the
circumference
intended
are
sunflower.
inexpedient,
of
quite think, however,
past, if that
of
the
36,
beyond
is considered
centre
their use;
to
art, the
necessitate
within
various
in No.
treatment
the leaves
course,
which
especially in
trammel
They the
carried
part
The
dots
Punches
work,
to
if
in,or,
simple
If that
centre
petals of
puristsobject and
it
of decorative
of
round.
The
flower, the
punch.
a
easilybe brought
can
circle.
the
have
would,
pieces all
leaves
giving
kept
lines
wavy
acided
on,
friend
old
our
rim, which
away
The
as
be
parts where
little varietyI have
give a
the
punched
dishes, we
to
suggested by
outer
form.
well
panel. should
growing
left out.
be
can
in those
has hollow
it
make
to
the
to
with
conceit, as
seaweed
the
that
say
prominent can
To
interest
barely seen
"
more
a
of
for the
plant is obviously
a
craft,and
the
perfectlynatural
a
object
Such
afloat.
of
needs
the
to
weed
are
nature
seaweed
the
and
one,
the
keep
to
r
to
used
made
which
fish
a
back
forms
animal
(an
gurnard,
for
the
that
seen
sea-horse
the
ornamentalist), the
vessels
Coming
Nature, for refreshment.
ones,
ornamentalised
6
USSE.
.
35, it will be
No.
REPO
OR
WORK
TAL
ME
all art,
design
the
TEN
A
BE
some
this sense,
court
defeat. be
can
workers now.
used. misof The
62
ART
Other
dish, No. The
sconce.
the
CRAFIS
have
I
37,
FOR
dish
whole
be
into
made In
the
No.
38
42.
and
purpose
be
concave,
to
the
head
the
of
the
of
a
and owl
this should
why
not
candle-supports.
example
of
Silver, exhibited
in beaten
P^xhibition
the
the
work
of
design is pleasantlysimple,a
The
Goblet
for
reason
no
excellent
an
craftsmen.
Plate
"
is
giving
by leaving out
have
we
Chiswick
No.
dish
a
out,
There
prominence.
adapted is intended
designs just brought
chief
AMATEURS.
by Jules
at
the
Paris
Brateau. .
decorative
of
seem
of small
would
paper rim
treatment
and
dish
a
that
the
working
the
centre,
valued
well
worth,
of
ornament.
the
the
as
possession.
beating up of the
as
leaves,and
Jt
rim
is and
it
were
but
the
ornament
hardly centre
merely
drawn
of the
beating up makes itself, necessary must
on
to
precede
the say the
ART
64
CRAFTS
FOR
AMATEURS.
The
tulip(theragged variety)is
has
only
be
can
made
to
bind
the
f^ The
43.
strength
must
Have
be a
"
can
at
go
Original Design
carries
in
or
the
aloft
design only
preserved
torch
a
as
well
be so
few well-defined
for of
to
the
give
civil life.
as
avoid
forms
nature
Skill and
way of
and
a
leaf
and
be
another, and it
The a
genuity in-
can
is
owl.
foreshortening
certain
crowding
so
unity,which
Plaque, representing 'Night.' and is riding upon stars an
suggested, and as
from.
back
design together, and
whole
boy
design by
a
plant used,
departed
not
in
shown around
wrap
ENo.
of forms
modified,
been
the
and
simplicity confusion.
give prominence
to
parts
BEATEN
of
introduction I
some.
IS'o. 44. on
"
a
advocate
of the not
am
almost
that
to
their the
admission scheme
being helped by be made
a
into
is made
Mr.
the more
the introduction
be
Gilbert
65
themselves.
objected to
Marks
in
design ;
Neptune seated background.
still I have
interestingas
as
would
Infant
of animal
feature of in themselves F
lose
snail may
Original Design for Dish, with figureof of waves treatment fish,with ornamental
feelingthat
can
others
frog and
sure
REPOUSSE.
OR
WORK
design, leaving
the
The
by
METAL
well
forms, as
well
as
they
as
being
a
a
foil
66
CRAFTS
ART
the
to
better, it
confine
bowl.
good practiceto get
be works
these.
as
beaten
shows
the
which
is
often
and
one
and
Ostade.
in beaten
wrought
into to
Teniers,
effective
schemed
than for
in the
taken
made
into
a
a
torch
the
the
of
if you
craft
in
France,
stereotyped wit
of
its
as
are
the
on
pictureby
a
where in
the the
lead
to
me
for
figure is
the
on
more
you
from
are
a
A
back the
tion decora-
feeding swans,
woman
a
to
design.
the
imagination,where in
seems
likelyto
not
Neptune
removed
go
imposes
after
place
a
in
carved
or
Night (No. 43), where
pipe, or
a
when
ness different busi-
very
metal
young of
one
treated
treatment pictorial
result
take
Teniers
figure is introduced
dish, is
the
be
bronze, a
stars, appears
you
world
possible,whereas limitations
of
case
one
It
1900.
simple designs, Nos.
in
A
a
as
smoking
man
such
French
designs after
surely a
in which
to
the
(No. 44), or
boy carries
tainly cer-
on
modern
very
with
cast
circular
a
idea, therefore,
fish
a
the
may
beating up
on
and
in
"
tendency
figures
be
harmonious
or
out
fanciful of
that
and
a
the
and
wrong,
'
are
It would
Exhibition,
of
of decoration.
scheme
of
couple
It is
metal.
dish
me
so
how
beating up
the
from
a
to
to
Paris
the
of
coalscuttles
prenticehan'
treated
modelling figures stone,
shape.
as
beating up figure compositions,
made
show
to
into
naturalistic
of
plaques
I have
44,
border,
craftsmen.
fond
sees
and
example
an
recoil
were
bowls
"
a
the
*
strong
French
Dutch
and
in
wholesome
a
is
42
was
present
average
The
43
No.
silver,and
of the
beaten
merely
floral
is
base
particular part
one
large
as
the
on
introducing a
foliage to
our
if
pleasant
butterflies
of
than
me,
articles
Such
very
border
to
seems
then
we
The
plants.
AMATEURS.
FOR
realistic
actual, and
anything
is
design, the
chieflyfelt.
silver
is, as
I
No.
Cellar
I and
able
am
45, but
beaten
to
The
present
and
Mustard
fiom
other
of
of the
beaten
silver
the
beaten
appearance
choice-
material.
coarser
Mr.
design
same
giving a
metal
Pot
designs by
with
different
very
in the
give examples
several
a
67
charmed
of
surface
white
the
wanting
House,
will be
beautiful, and
most
in copper,
Salt
"
REPOUSSE.
OR
copper
in.
silver will
refinement
45.
beaten
work
said,
it does
and
only
to
have in
what
ness
metal
a
as
wrought to
have
who
Those
WORK
METAL
BEATEN
in Silver
at Essex
Ashbee.
wrought
silver in
designs might
Nos.
have
41
been
in silver.
Essex
wrought
House
silver and
produces the
two
some
characteristic
examples
in No.
45
examples are
of
certainly
68
ART
individual the
No.
two
46. "
in
CRAFTS
Poppy
simple, the
if
design, and
articles
Clock
FOR
we
that
see
wrought
in Pewter
reversed, all the
surface
part in the effect.
of Mr.
the
AMATEURS.
examine
we
the
motifs
the are
details
of
remarkably
The by Jules Brateau. being symbolical.
base
is
a
details
metal
Gilbert
itself Marks'
playing an bowl
important
is conceived
in
BEATEN
a
different
and spirit, The
ornamental. breaks
No.
up
47.
"
WORK
METAL
the
the
Cabinet
design
narcissus without
surface
in
Wiouyhi
of the details
it will be noticed
flowers
the
The
being
clock, No.
only 46,
forms
was
OR
lies
is
REPOUSSE.
69
naturalistic
more
pleasantly on
the
bowl
destroyingits contour.
Messrs.
Iron.
are
kept in
accented
also shown
by
T.
very
Potter
low
than and Most
"
Sons.
the relief,
fuller relief.
in the Paris
Exhibition,
ART
70
and
be
can
bullion
be
heightened by enamelling
branch A
few
and
is
in
get
little
a
anvil
an
There
such
as
artistic
still
by
the
hopes,
be
do
The
in
that
that
it will bend
can
be
old
always
smith
a
made
setting up
could
get one's
was
fashioned
readily.
in
and
found
in
wrought
iron
curves,
No.
when
the the
be
villagehandicrafts agencies will,one of in
tasteful
villages.
iron 47,
the
will
which
deHghtful iron
ested inter-
be
is made
admirably designed "
and
to
appear
some
be
It is
and
dexteritythe
iron
other
back
in
artist and
an
mechanical
to
figured
of bent
was
sign-boards, locks
worker
bring
to
worked
cabinet
peculiarbeauty
scrolls
or
one
effort to restore
entirelyof wrought iron. the
this
success,
can
before
own
certain
a
the
once
have
the
forge
a
near
delightfulscrolls
Association
something
who
Those
are
on
laudable Arts
hand-cunning
to
in this craft.
overcome
villagesmith
into
seen
aspirations of
Home
chapter
with
iron
boires, and
a
beyond
now
atrophied.
be
of one's
when
his iron
bent
hinges, but
the
attention
friendly smith,
a
forge
time
a
can
in
farrier's anvil.
the
and
shaped
who
or
from
small
was
especiallyif
"
wrought
up
judicious pour
on
"
ornaments
beating
the
jewellery
worker's
the
or jeweller's
wholesale
enamels, and
of
taken
country
and
in
hand
of
to great difficulty
help
friendly by
of
ounce.
an
way
directed
have
no
the
class
any
work.
amateurs
there
Those
addition
I have
of metal
in the
a
buckles, hair
shoe the
at
6d.
2S.
done
and
it is evident
that
so
purchased
about
at
could
of waist
on
be
AMATEURS.
of this metal.
out
can
dealer's
Much out
beaten
silver
Sheet
FOR
in pewter,
wrought
was
effect
CRAFTS
to
and
curves
is heated
show
so
that
work comes
in
relief.
it thinner
with
Or
of the
out
and
feet, as
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
72
it over,
in sketch
and No.
then
48,
a
it
drain-pipe as
a
the
by pulling out
press, and
bending
with
start
can
you
shown
AMATEURS.
put
top
making
"
bottom
a
it
to
pleasant shape
very
is obtained.
decorate
then
can
You
the
surface
with
work
in low
relief.
I found
it
plan
good
a
model
to
and
leaves, etc., stick them
then the
on
carefully
vase,
wetting the clay make
them
You
adhere. in
can,
roll out
leaf and
shape
clay from
it,or
build
up
Vase
mented
of
Drain
with
the
made
in Relief
fingers
Pipe ^Oiiia-
plan clay well, working Those have amateur
who
have
noticed should
in seen
how bear
free
a
a
sculptor
square
this in
and
make
a
angular
mind,
is
for
he
your
to
your
a
good
thumb
the
rough
somewhat
and
you
fashion
to
it,for it
Bi amble.
the
straight using
away,
"
actual
an
design
48.
clay
dough,
take
can
No.
fact,
your
thin, hke and
to
manner.
sketch
will
works, and
the
clay
it is all
too
easy
to
MODELLING.
CLAY
difficultyis
modelling tools,and
wooden steel
one
with
these
can
be
wire
a
in
one's
work
crispness, vigour, "go."
obtain
to
finish
so-called
and
smoothness
get
73
;
A
the few
one
(all
scraper
a,
of
had
colourman),
all
are
Throw
rest.
ments imple-
the
fingersdoing
the
necessary, the
good artists'
a
chief
your
up
objects, working freely,and
finish until
the
design
the
chief
decorative on
the
of
a
is
fired
when
angular
work
is
effective
than
where
is smoothed You of
the
done
in
don't
a
not
reference hand. be
afraid
for you
crisp,
much
more
everything doll.
wax
a
the
up
tool
whether or
out
surface
"1^
by scratching it with
vase
it, but
by
break
point of
the
be
your
like
away
can
mapped
roughness,
will find
can
of your
don't
But
certain
of tickling
whole
scheme
vase.
position dis-
forms; this
the
when
of the
The
resisted
be
individual
done
lines
fixed, and
built up.
must
be
general
are
masses
up
obtaining
of
thinking
avoid
to
try
can
to
All too
by dotting
or
this
should
only
be
the one
be
decided
work particular can
''busy";
say
is,
aim
at
PM
ART
74
CRAFTS
simplicityrather being its
far
effective than
more
is in
while
the
water
if the
once
dries, all
work
50.
your
work
is that
or
it is
get your Before
dried, and
of
chance
tool
as
effect your
well
to
The
diy, you
it with
even
avoid
this had
can
better
be be
can
doing
the
over
it
carve
at
but in
much in the must
the
the
by
any
my
clay
On
over.
up
clay with
over
if your
for
it is
fired, it done
cloth
Modelled Vintage. Freres, Brussels.
entirelyby modelling work
bewildering in
spray
steel scraper,
a
placed forms
well
working,
thumbing
for Boch
it is
wet
a
and
Panel.
Roskam
when
hand,
keep
before
few
of detail
mass
progress,
Stoneware
"
a
to
is hot
weather
M.
Other
careful
Be
AMATEURS.
multiphcity,a
than
complexity.
No.
FOR
part
of
impression
this
way,
but
plasticstate. be
thoroughly
pottery, for if there
CLAY
be
any
moisture
in
the
work
chances
are
tiles
Flat
to
take
though
as
those
design
depth
and
then
kib,
tool
higher
to
the
the
out
you ground back-
thick, then of
depth
f-inch
is
"
carving,and
in wood
design,adding clay
the
relief
a
"
out
up
take
or relief,
tile is f -inch
if the
"
in
work
background
and
model where
parts
with
'grounding
were
you
then
can
you
your
the
it is put in the
split.
decorated
out
75
clay when
will
certain
a
could
you
on
the
be
can
scratch
could
MODELLING.
required ;
in
but
in
the
t No.
51.
"
in Relief.
Work
decoration
of
high
relief
the
work
surface ,
it will
impression that too
with
vase
.He upon
to
appear
a
Esther
Miss
By
drop
spoilsthe
Piano
in Silver.
Moore.
in relief the
design
securely,and
off of its
contour
Front
of the
give
not
weight.
own
should
Work
the
in
by aggressively
vase
assertingitself. As
for
give you and
the
designs,the adaptation of
all the
skill.
Such
opportunity you a
is full of decorative other
familiar
plant
as
the
that
would
form
require for showing blackberry,
but suggestiveness,
plants
plant
any
do
used
there
are
equallywell.
in
will taste
Fig. 48,
dozens
of
76
ART
Animal
by
those
life, as
well
feel
who
who
many
CRAFTS
make
FOR
the
as
equal
but
a
to
AMATEURS,
human
it,and hand
poor
it is worth
find
being
latter
the
under
the
form
is felt in
only
state
is
forms
with
a
line.
"
Steerage. Designed by
produces in
much
The
work the
same
G.
in
and
afterwards
and
glazed as
at
No. in
be
49
clay,
coloured the pottery
Delia
Birkenhead.
Dressler's
relief,covered as
can
pottery, like Mr.
Haite.
way
is
Robbia, This
in
Volatile." C.
This
particularly
panel
known
52.
the
makes
course,
modelled
was
at
in
too.
The
Berth
plastic
sharp point,
colour
used
Spare
the
draw
to
incised
where
of
it is
of decorating
way
effective,
Door
because
seen.
which, of
The
more
modelling,
clay in
"
and
drawing
Another
an
grow
thus
^^"^i^Hl^Hi^H^BHH
in
the
hand,
easily secured,
while
in
forms
^ffaiPPW^^^yiliiSi^H
No.
they get
that
proportion is
j^
that
with'*modelling,the
fact
_"^^^^^^r."^,
essayed
noting
drawing,
at on
^"^^
be
form, should
the
with
Italian
work
an
near
opaque of the
Conrad
Marlow,
glaze sixteenth
MODELLING,
CLAY
of
Lucca
blue,
is
which
century,
the
to
but
work,
without
almost
them
to
glazed and
modelled
the
number
name
of
dull
a
colours,
pink,
to
a
be
can
heat
great
is
coloured, glazed pottery for, unless
amateurs,
fired at
work
attempt
of
example
of
with
it is fired
But
reach
the
get their works for
and
as
palette is limited.
the
certain
A
yellow, green,
brown,
given
associated
always
Robbia.
della
77
No.
nature.
and
pottery,
can
pottery, it is impossible
a
this
of
they
in
was
is
50
an
Paris
the
Exhibition. Modelled
terra
^^-
without
53-
damage for
Modelling this is
a
the
wax,
and
then
then
tool
up
with any a
"
Door.
on
casting
panel
be
fired
cost, and
with
can
Volatile."
usuallydone
in
way,
The
in sand
modellers
cast
as
is
model
make
in wax,
and
getting an for
that
plaster,and
their sketch
amount
plaster admits by
Miss
as
too, is
mould,
plaster of Paris, which
steel scrapers, other
The
small
easily.
works
this
hand,
kiln.
Many
have
possiblein Such
in the
that
wax.
other
comparatively
by castingthe
quickly made
finish.
a
metal
material
melting out
the
on
Butterfly Hinge
"
at difficulty
littlerisk of
not
cotta,
Esther
they finish
of of
in
a
high
Moore,
78
ART
No. method
of
is
51,
of
the
work
of
caster
to
sketch
has
do
Leather
only
Miss
see.
we
this is then
this who
Lane
lation manipu-
Moore
makes
in
cast
plaster.
special calling,largelyin
a
of
lines
the
careful
very
artist's
the
being
subtle,and
it is advisable
work
any
that
result
t'o be
is
here
clay, and
Italians,and
around
men
the
that
way,
rehef
in
come
AMATEURS.
this
delicate
so
produce
finished
hands
in
The
design are
Casting
FOR
produced
could
her
CRAFTS
to
get
round
go
professional
a
There
nature.
several
are
studios
to
the
to
do
done
at
casting.
IS^
""%'. .
^W%
No.
54.
"
Details
of
Cupboard "The
With a
foundry.
work,
the
regard to
as
its
Of cost
base
at
of
silver
would
be
Berth.
Spare
Volatile."
castingin metal, this
course,
employed, though
Door
too
only
can
be
have
for small
used
is the
Bronze
great.
castings
some
be
must
metal
made
been
in
aluminium. Such
designs
yacht designed by scope
of amateurs,
the
as
Mr. as
suggestingmotifs. The
hinges Haite,
Nature
animal
and
No. is of forms
ornament
52, so
are
on
more
are
much
door
within assistance
of the in
manifestlyinspired
8o
ART
would
not
metal
is
be
CRAFTS
ruinous
a
trifling ; and
entirely oneself experienced to is made and
clay
or
The
No.
to
see
that
a
in
portion of
56.
Calendar,
"
it
of
a
frieze shown
a
Louis
wrought
that
gives
be
must
work
your
it
quality
a
possessed in its
flat
portion
and
valued.
suggestion of
restraint
knowledge.
the
It
points well
oneself
in one's
efforts ;
but
surface
places
whole
of
keeping
part of the
the
where
in
a
moral
of
by
wax
the
not
the know
due
admirable
an
Frank
relief.
the
to
hand, and
it tells with
Silver
Lutiger.
is
panel
is
work
The
rightly
happily given, and
evinces
design
work,
is
is very
water
checking with
in
55
in low
decorated
surface
The
in No.
Design
XV.
concentrated,
certain
bronze
of
cost
state.
example
the
has
one
fact that
mere
or
the
pleasure
dreamed
never
you
The
bronze
that
of
pang
silver
in
work
any
realised.
be
AMATEURS.
outlay, while
gives
permanent
value
FOR
much
tyro, the
being
impulse how effect.
too to to
and
taste
of
need
boisterous cover
confine
every it
to
CLA
illustrations
the
should
one
is
and, this
this
example
is
fettered
so
next
to
as
is
arbitrary
be
the
greatest lines.
these
for
gathered possible
is
that
well
for
is
''
anyone's what
objection
"
style to
ego I
have
to
styles
though
this
to
is
said
working
that
that
adopted, find
me,
designing
objection
chief
My
all
in
shown
1
of
rest
appeal
strong
no
arbitrary
from
to
pages,
skill
the
contrast
it
and
much
the
impossible
may
strong
given.
that
by
8
makes
that
as
in
in
work
acknowledge
an
is
chapter,
represented
Renaissance
quite
such
56,
to
be
so-called
I
No.
calendar,
The
MODELLING.
Y
expression, elsewhere,
on
such
it
CHAPTER
ENAMEIvUNG
AND
V.
ENAMEIvIvBD
HERE
has
been
of
enamelling
is
one
this
the
of
crafts
it is here
him
to
that
given
I
delightful small
work
when
it
there
effects
is
play
great
of The
which and enamel
by
usually pieces
some
the
be
information
applied
then
Of
course,
which culties diffi-
upon the
by
overcome
beaten
in
design enters
one
no
very
to
it.
figure
a
by
comparatively
a
to
is
skill
that
or
kiln
practice.
either are
colour
out
colour,
only
can
equipment
heated
of
the
some
be
and
teachers,
and
can
in
given
amateurs, with
nical tech-
Fisher,
It
and
carrying
to
of
it
London
craft.
enamels
give variety
to
which
comes
the
as
the
are
the
much
obtained
be
can
comes
a
of
of
art
and the
beautiful
most
reach
the
equipment,
metal
this
concerning
beyond
means
for
indebted
am
work
one
the
Alexander
Mr.
is
in
by
whose
chapter,
in
years,
taught
established
of
examples
few
last
Council.
County
revival
great
a
classes
this
JEWEIvIvBRY.
work
for
gas
sold of
you
is
enamelling or
in
charcoal,
lumps
copper, have
a
the
fire-clay
repoussed.
themselves,
enamels
coloured
resembling unless,
muffle
as
I
have
glass, said,
you
pounded then
difficult
a
as
colours
one
them of
the
little sugar the
did with
china
them
metal, be
must
when
also
in
to
the
to
but
very if
ing sticky-lookwill
dry, they
bubble
be
to
used, for
remain
enamels
and
might
adhere
to
and
sugar
easily,and
more
surface
They
water,
enable
to
worked
they
somewhat
of
soup^on
cause
then
even
with
mixed
added
glass
manipulate.
to
be
must
and of
slab
a
gritty and
be
just
on
83
JEWELLERY.
be
to
mortar
a
muller, but
a
will
be
in
up
ground
with
have
enamels
The
ENAMELLED
AND
ENAMELLING
kiln
the
crack
and
be
spoilt. of
One
is
enamels metal
of
take
to
about
a
size of
the
and
button,
simplest
the
float
colour, using
on
must
plenty
will
brush colour
than
"enamel
must
of
a
of
coat
camelYou
a
hold
short
large
a
enamel
therefore
metal, and
disc
long,
a
for the purpose.
the
of
a
hair brush
get
uses
on
haired longmore
The
one.
drop, as
it were,
No. on
57.
"
Spoon
Enamel. to
the
can
be
metal,
and
while
manipulated, but
wet
it
until the
B.
Martin,
in
Silver
Designed
by
and Miss
84
JRT
tyro has
felt his way,
covering the the
metal
become on
be
the
58.
"
against various a
given),if
that
is
metal
enamel
flat,as
the
to
on
''
miniature
front.
also
muffles
to
see
heat
more
are
of
to
how than
"
back
might like
only a
thin
enamels
helps
Champleve
an
on
to
pull
Enamel.
rings
archery target
practise in manipulating they fire, for
of
kiln it will
of the
float
just
sides
in the
pull
the
enamels, something scale, both
little
You
Both
the back
on
with
content
colour.
ground
owing
the
on
coloured
requirea
remain
(though
the
the
to
in Wrought Steel and ^Jewel Casket Fisher. Alex. Designed by
colours, and.
The
the
enamelled
metal, and
AMATEURS.
it is better
convex slightly
No.
on
be
FOR
with
metal
must
need
coat
CRAFTS
some
the
enamels
others.
various
sizes, but
it would
be
ENAMELLING
advisable
only
for
you
sufficient
to
be
place
your
melt
the
with
work, and
of
amount
is
heat
Practice
heat.
the
reached, but
long pincers,and it
melted, and The
should
work
it too
much
and
this
be
must
be
looked
the
cause
at
in the
is apt to
just when
fired
and
cool
to
enamel
will
heat
firingcan
left
be
quickly the
Too
enamel
here
to
the
right
if it has
flake
even
easily remedied,
opposite
the
but
off.
spoil,
and
carefullyguarded against :
most
pair
a
by cooling
as
cinder
to
right
if necessary.
again
crack, and
enamels
the
see
muffle,
of
one
with
withdrawn
be
can
obtained
soon
get one
ing open-
an
door, through
but
metal,
tells
put back
be
can
the
soon
is
is
heat
as first,
at
one
There
itself; to
work
the
small
fire-brick
a
the
on
first difficulties presents
the
quite a
attempted.
enamel
85
JEWELLERY.
have
to
is closed
front, which
which
of
beginner
a
articles should
small
in
ENAMELLED
AND
under-
is
fault
fatal.
colour, produces form
other
effect.
Inmy
the
effects
of small
of quatrefoils
perhaps blob
a
look
The
of
2"(i,composed
diameter, with to
which
are
a
beaten
page
rich
very
a
name
attached
if each
disc
of
in
Craftsman^
a
simple
some
beginner's
the
the size of
a
yellow
enamelled,
were
one
Mr.
silver
lightenamel
small
ot
pearl being replaced by
jewel by
a
discs
80, for instance, composed
silver
in
engage
about .silver,
colour, the
different
of enamel.
on
of
Jewellery
well
might
necklace
buttercup, would
and
or
decorative
very
Training
Enamelling
on
which
The
The
book,
nice
necklace
a
of small
composed together,is
linked
former
shown
attention.
pleasant effect,and
ornament,
and
chapters are
very
chain
enamelled
silver
in
of
a
if it be
design,applied to metal,
much
Colour, without
Frampton
\\
about on
a
on
inches
dark
plain discs,about
a
page in
ground, f-inch in
86
CRAFTS
ART
The
enamel
different metal
effect
showing
schemes, such
No*
very the
59-
might
be
pieces of
Those colours
who
do
not
in
enamels
of
assume
a
small
gold
added have
to
are
and
to
the
their proper
the
under
copper,
certain
Enamels.
Fisher.
gem-like
a
pearl in
silver.
painted china
of
a
elaborate on
The
effect.
the
disc of silver if the
if of
metal
Steel
the
to
in
placed
are
produce
referred
replaced by or
gold foil
Repousse Designed by Alex.
above
copper,
these
Girdle
"
transparent necklace
are
silver and
pieces of
small
have
colour
and
Fisher's,which
of Mr.
those
as
gold, will the
to
enamels,
the
and
simplicityitself.
was
metal, owing
through
unique
an
and silver,
copper,
on
each
on
colours, made
and
personal ornament,
same
AMATEURS.
in various
diameter, enamelled beautiful
FOR
In
original
quatrefoils
enamel
binds
parent. or
pottery know
that
tint until fired,and
some
this
88'
any
ART
No.
FOR
collection, such
fine
British
CRAFTS
Museum,
60.
" "
we
Olivia."
ground enamels
covers
the
play into
the Waddesdon
as
find
that
Enamelled
Designed
by
a
The
dark,
Plaque Alex.
while
copper,
this.
AMATEURS.
bequest
at
the
serai-opaque blue
in Translucent
Enamel.
Fisher.
translucent
sixteenth
and
century
opaque craftsmen
AND
ENAMELLING
were
skilful in
very
modelling
given by
was
white.
the
using
When
plaques, ewers,
the
other
and
ground
consider
we
to
through
go
of their
admiration
61.
No.
carried has works their made a
the
may
size
the
of
risks
the
by fire, it the
not
be
quite
enamellers
attempt
used to
to
that
our
in
taste.
these
thoroughly gauged
increases
it
to
secure
produce
miniature, but worked
to
the
the
best
effect of
display the
an
our
designs they
and
Anyone
sixteenth the
these
work
wherever
run
productions, though
the
dishes,
fired by successfully
ordeal
enamelling knows
craft,and no
that
Enamels Eldorado, set with jewels, in Translucent Steel Settings. Designed by Alex. Fisher,
"
out
tried
the
so
showing through
colour the
articles
Limoges craftsmen, knowing has
enamel
opaque
an
89
JEWELLERY,
ENAMELLED
who
century
of capabilities results.
oil
They
painting or
peculiar resources
ART
90
and
CRAFTS
individualities
should
do
these the
and
old
we
attention
that
enamelling
of qualities well
colour the
as
The
the
is
colour
and
art,
overlaid
we
themselves,
forms
bird, or peacock's feather, and
carry
might
naturally,and varied
admiral
bring
be
the
and
use
portions enamel,
If
in
we
handle
for here
on.
casket, No.
58,
would
metal
spaces
cut
filled in with
57, would
The also
in
out
a
even
the
colours
ornamental be
the
powdered
filed down
afterwards
in enamels
is the
gives
work
are
kingfisheror
No.
about
them
the
natural
design is given by
the
as
play.
spoon.
think
to
these
a
craft into
7iot
them
upon of
one
a
scheme
ornamentally, Look
of
putting
colour
rendering them
of
roughen the surface of or
the upon
it,and
repousse
colour, the work
looked
gems),
simple
design.
thick
In
plate
enamel, with
to
the
of
which metal
polished.
it,chase
affect
them
after
our
only thing
these spaces
fired,and
then
and
of
essay,
enamels
metal, and is then
to
in
And
of the
again
here
champleve
with
beetle, butterfly,
brilliant than
more
resources
the
of the
as
be
? butterfly
all the
metal, and to
could
simple work
a
certain
that
the
out
their colour.
palettes,shaped
enamelling
The
before
prerogatives of
a
as
Treat
objects.
chieflyfor
forms, for what
we
take
these
suggested by
red
direct
I
keeping
the
are
such
a
that
metals
we
imitating
way
end
of
a
just]what
this craft alone.
tyro
rich and
that
importance
(as though
colours
this craft,and
It is to
is
in any
do without
can
to
AMATEURS.
craft, which
enamels.
reader's
one
as
of their
what
Limoges
FOR
we
have
enamels, and as
handmaids
the
then
done
on
enamels to
metal
metal, indent it with
cover
the metal used
in
work.
a
pattern
translucent
will
materially
this way
may
be
AND
ENAMELLING
of
Much
the
touched
up
jewellery
fine
of which
unique specimens are
ENAMELLED
with
JEWELLERY. of
the
in
the
are
enamels,
that
sixteenth
91
century,
Waddesdon
is,they
are
room,
employed
to
\Lm^mMmmmim
No.
62.
"
Triptych, in
heighten the taking up of
fine
old
effect
such
a
work,
Enamel
and
by adding
craft not
as
with
Bronze.
colour
Designed
to
this,should an
idea
Alex.
The
form.
make
of
by
a
careful
Fisher.
tyro, in
study
doing anything
like
ART
92
it, but The
Py
FOR
catch
the
spiritof
girdle, No.
59,
could
to
permission
No.
melled
CRAFTS
of
63.
in
ornamental
"
some
the
Hon.
Mrs.
Percy
AMATEURS.
the
have
work
the
of
circular
of
simple design,while
portions could
masters.
spaces
ena-
iryndhain.
in Translucent Lady Elcho Designed by Alex. Fisher.
Portrait
the
also
be
the
Enamels.
pierced and
enamelled.
beaten
makes
skilled worker
A
varied
very
learning what
tyro had
the
it is
employed
used
is rich and
outline
an
as
must
applied in
fired.
when
harder
with
finished
be
last
the
requiringless heat,
Collection,
jewels are
well
rendered
the
flesh
of
which
old
china
form
the
of
fired
ten
first and
on
enamels
opaque
in
a
Limoges portrait
is made
No.
to
in
24,
the
get the effect of
scheme
is
colour,
strivingafter
no
flesh.
the
a
painting,
sometimes
Lorraine,
there
so
The
drapery
The
with
the
white
of the
pink,
which
should
worker
painting,but
for
go
a
enamel
done
be
can
not
used
seek
simpler
to
and
get
more
treatment.
Battersea covered
metal
being
Upon
this the and
work
colours, and
quite simple
enamels.
colours, but
characteristic
were
in
ing requiresburnish-
in the
to, but
a
slightlytinted
effect of
china,
his time
richlycoloured, jewellerybeing particularly by
is
china
The
china
modelling, characterises
and
with
to
china
The
attempt
no
it
being
afterwards.
in
flat treatment,
a
elaborate
for
himself
ground, and
in
as firing,
ordinary
portraitin oils,but
with
a
make,
Limoges
in in
used
enamels
enamels, like that of Catherine Waddesdon
old
effect is fired
is often resorted
portraitthis
is put
gold
to
elaborate
An
times, the
eleven
a
waste
dark
the
on
Gold
effective.
and
be
in
"
yellow powder, similar
of
confine
than
enamelling
dull
can
better
rather
them
in
is often used
Gold
those
colours, but
own
experiments.
chemical
or
his
of
93
enamels, chieflyof French
with
do
to
JEWELLERY.
some
of
assortment
purchased, so
be
can
ENAMELLED
AND
ENAMELLING
the
painted
used
same
in
worked
were
thicklywith
design was
with
sometimes
enamels
a
as
colours.
addition, but
milky
on
opaque
it would
have
Translucent these
the
copper,
Battersea
enamel. been
on
enamels snuff-
CRAFTS
ART
94
boxes
bijouteriehave
and
work
:
they are
too
like
much
figure work
In
No.
The
64.
attempting
to
60, the
Voices
to
be
be
flesh
and
very
a
few
Night," in Translucent by Alex. Fisher.
too
realistic.
was
kept
gold
painters
many
of the
very
being slightlyoutlined.
contour
was
splendour of Limoges
painted china
mistake
the
Designed
mass,
of the
none
ful success-
enamels.
as
No.
AMATEURS.
FOR
threads
brilliant, looking like
In
the
Enamels.
head
of
Olivia,
simple, the
features
hair
treated
The were
black
was
introduced. velvet
and
is
make
The
silver.
and as
dress
a
CHAPTER
BOOKBINDING
VI.
AND
LEATHER
would
HO
have
that
ago
yet
thought
in
of
the
67,
4,
work
be
may
original Thrd
76,
always in
shown
object
this
we
all
the
Gold
2.
Inlaying.
3.
Incising
and
to
of
and
and
of
the
such
an
but
to
an
the
the
original
note
of
besides that
not
as
would in
is after
hear.
leather work
embossing.
may done
be
divided
with
small
this
manner
itself
book
both
cover
Not
doubt
whose is
contrived,
emphatic I
Women
of
the
on
in
see
that
book.
purists
reference
covers,
waiting
Tooling
1.
in
done
tooling
ingeniously
contents
direct
a
ornamentation
The
the
example,
of
are
The
we
of
work
out
the ation, Associ-
example
an
turn
Arts
that
as
Art,
65,
is very
be
often
or
ornamentation what
of
such
to
No.
Glass
symbolical
being
of
craftsmanlike.
Looki?ig
guilds
such
School in
seen
and
the
while
Chiswick
and
Binders
can
and
cuted, exe-
under
which
of
is
work
Home
be
amateurs,
villages,
examples Nos.
by
excellent
even
years
could
followed
most
auspices
few
a
bookbinding
successfully and
WORK.
into
stamps.
the all
AND
BOOKBINDING
Of
course
as
a
the three
rule
the
only
leather is touched
in
upon
of the
development
it is
first
two
doubtful
a
However, touch
are
though
cover,
Poker
work
on
XIII.
leather rather
be
cannot
addition
an
to
said to
be
it,and
book
a
to
cover.
shall
leathers in this
further
united.
Chapter
craft,but
one
painted
upon
ter, chap-
will
we
in
expedient adding paint
we
as
WORK,
combined
colouringor paintingof
The a
be
may
LEATHER
leave
consideration
until then. No.
is
65
of pure
tooHng,
ing the lines form-
where
the
design into
pressed
with
leather tools
ample ex-
an
are
the
heated
afterwards
and
gilded (though they left
be
may
"blind"
or
this
carried
tooling
very
grotesque very
to
No.
remain.
with
"
School
of Arts
Chis-
Tooling, by and
suggestion of grotesque managed. skilfully
far, for
The
Crafts. heads
is very
render
heads, and expert,
as
The
accomplish this
to
there
mistakes, for retrieving to
of
Example
65. wick
is
example
it is made
be
it is
as
termed). The in
plain
a
binder's
is line
H
craftsman
no
altering wrong
once
pressed into
skill is best
comparatively simple means
the
the
shown most
in
must
lines leather
or
has
tooling,for
beautiful
effects
ART
cj8 be
can
obtained,
itself a beautiful
Ko.
To
66."
help
out
FOR
CRAFTS
as
a
line
or
AMATEURS.
curve
tooled
on
leather
is in
thing.
Inlaid
the
Book
Cover, designed by F. A.
tooling,small stamps
cut
Hallin.
in the
shape
of
AND
BOOKBINDING
leaves, stars, flowers, and
effects As
of
example
an
instance,
admirable
Exhibition.
example
have
the
inlaying No.
and
shows
what
shown
was
in
is
the
most
a
done
by
a
Paris
recent
y^"^
we
and
tree
\^
dark
in
while
morocco, rest
of
the
a
light
is in
cover
varietyof
dd be
can
^
the
used.
are
In
this
deer
forms
considerable
ways
elaborate
It
craftsman.
skilled
99
wrought.
be
can
simple
other
in various
these
combining
By
WORK.
LEATHER
The
colour.
tooled,
leaves
are
not
stamped.
Tnis
example
tour
de
is
a
force^ for
difficulties in
the
the
rendering and
swans
its reflections
with are
they with
executed
of
many An
No.
first tooled
Class, under
Harris.
Messrs.
are
much
skill.
restrained
Whether I
will
binding not
should
decide.
go
The
work, is certainlymore
so;
less
satisfying
us.
exam.ple of 67.
Leather, by the Kirby
Repousse
"
pictorialdirection
a
ambitious, more to
67. Lonsdale
as
in
No.
able, consider-
veiy
far
water
The on
repousse
design the
front
work
is beaten to
give
on
out
the
is
leather
from outline
the
in
seen
back, being
which
is
to
be
" followed
in the
obtained
in this way,
I
shall
68. An
"
a
her
bindings,and in a
excellent effects not
of
present the difficulties
tooling in
No.
67 is blind.
developments of
and
be
to
are
it subsequently.
embossing
tooling and
in
Bookbinding, designed and executed by Miss J. Birkenrutli. example of toolingstamping with figme panelin repousse.
68, by Miss
on
the
as
combination
No.
shown
it does
and
this work
with
deal
have
We
No.
embossing. Very
gold toolingdoes,
that
AMATEURS.
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
100
this
punched
Birkenruth, who the
example. or
resources
The
powdered
is of
always originalin her
craft
are
well
fish, by being left plain
ground,
have
almost
the
BOOKBINDING
of
effect it
AND
inlaid.
being
veil the
leather
designs
are
employed
No.
leather
painted
wall
coverings,and
when
treatingof
into
toolingby using
lines
but
in
described will
We that
might
touch
first the
upon
in
embossed
in their
taken
been
consider
to
introduced
the
subject
technique
new
a
produce
to
only straight
not
usually produced by examples,
some
deal
now
of
in
seen
of work.
Training of
The
has
ever
be
may
treatment
better
forms
with
method,
The
it
as
wheel
a
and
curves
the
have
MacColl
embossing
to
it will be
this class
Miss
and
Mr.
t^*.\V
helpful.
carried far
as
as
of various
Punches
bloom.
of colour
and
adds,
'seems ;ili binding, Tcjil,
the a
leather
'
very
Spanish
The
69.
of
loi
"',' produce these J)^^g,roundS;" |"lld^^'
to
are
combination
The
it
WORK,
dotting
to
give
and
rightlyused
when
This
colour
another
were,
LEATHER
will
certain
a
matter
of
fully
making
of work
class
attention
amateur's
an
found
Craftsman.
a
detail with
occupy
be
stamps.
designs
and for
then
leather
work.
attention
Much
within
the
last few
admirable, and than very
has
been
and
years,
the work
by
H.
Mr.
the
I
Jacobsen,
an
the scope
its
embossing
obtainable
effects
within
which
leather
to
first consider
brieflyits technique,
contributed
as
is more
will
"tooling," we
given
are
of amateurs
and possibilities,
take
from
eminent
an
article
worker
in
this way.
design
The and
a
then
laid
a
tracing
sponge.
over,
thus
over
be
to
wrought
taken the
With
on
stout
leather, well a
leaving
hard an
point
impress
must
made
be
full which
tracing
paper,
damped
beforehand
the
design
upon
the
is
size,
now
leather.
is with gone
For
ART
I02
cutting hard
No.
the
CRAFTS
FOR
outlines, the
wood-
-or
better,
69. Painted, embossed, George Hulbe, of Frankfort. "
plate-glass. penholder,
A
the
small
AMATEURS.
is
leather
slab
stone
a
and
lacquered Exhibited
sharp
sharp ^^g^
in
put
knife
on
sheet
or
Leather
at
is
the
Screen
Paris
used,
front, and
a
board of
of
thick
by
Mr,
Exhibition.
held
like
it is advisable
a
ART
I04
depends
CRAFTS
the
upon
FOR
modelling
wax.
hands,
the
as
which
force
hollowings, they
these
AMATEURS.
be
must
This
be
must
of
presence
is used.
But
filled
at
up
pressed
the
will
back
dry the
prevent of the
the
wax
leather.
fill the
The
only just
must
wax
with
with
adhesion to
preserve
home
moisture
any
to
hollows, for
if it
project beyond
the
plane
of
the
leather, it will make it
when
uneven
is laid down
leather
millboard
the
upon or
other
to
cover.
of
the
the
give
70."
sixteenth-centuryMork and
embossed.
The
punched
;
to
dotted
be
to
be
ornament.
"Star"
giving
and
each
permanently
a
"
the
punches
incised
spaces
used
are
by keeping sharp
of
various
present re-
according
dimensions
blow
leather
the
with
a
hammer,
to
of the
moist it is
indented.
By working the
punch
ring
"
sizes,
and
give
on
surfaces.
wrought,
also to
the work
leather
prominence
and
modelled
Design,
Panelled
face sur-
different
a
texture, and
No.
it is
surface
Punching
will
the
the
leather
from
the back
and
punching
surface, quite sufficient relief will be obtained
for
down chair-
AND
BOOKBINDING
backs, It is
seats, where
or
only
in book
that
higher
should
be
and
is
70,
ment. treat-
process
reads
in
one
articles,
it a
technique acquired, so
soon
the
is
amateur
enabled
produce
to
creditable
work
time.
short
a
is
Leather
pleasant work,
indeed
material
touch,
to
the
to
that
so
work
a
have
not
in hand
a
it is very
as
responsive
does
and
which
sufficient
in
suchlike
wax.
71
this
simple enough,
very
and
use
able suit-
all
are
The
that
covers,
to
of
use
Nos.
for
is
box
covers,
inadvisable
indispensable.
72
is
be
105
relief
the
Designs and
it would
WORK.
attempted,
then
wax
LEATHER
to
be
long enough
for all interest in it to
vanish.
On
the
trary, con-
effect
an
is
/
quickly .1
^""i though,
No.
Design
for
Chair-back, suggested by sixteenth-centurywork" strap-work 71."
^
obtained r
of
;
to be ornament, The background
^
course,
as
indicated.
incised can
be
and
embossed.
punched
over,
io6
ART
CRAFTS
leather
embossing
artisiic
finish.
given
that
yieldsthe the
best
worker The
though
as
the
more
of
as
the
the
brief skin
pig
of
description calf,
stout
or
of the
skin, too,
dyed
stain
this
If
high degree
a
the
depth
very
than
process
liquid dyes.
to
material
gives
scope.
workers
some
enhanced,
leather, such
colour
the
to
brought from
much
so
AMATEURS.
is obvious
result,as
natural
suitable
be
can
It
thick
FOR
be
done
of
like the
more
morocco,
with
design
the artistically,
surface
natural
leather
portions
be
to
seems
of the leather
is
effect
is in
no
way
impaired.
Miss
Eassett, in the
ings bind-
wrought
under
direction
her
Leighton
Buzzard,
stains
uses
at
the
upon
leather, keeping tint very
pale,
the
wards after-
varnishing the No.
72.-Chair
I
Seat.
To
No.
71.
inclined
am
to
o.btainedwithout
be
with
go
think the
quite
that
Bassett
blind
tooling [i.e. tooling without
is
undoubtedly
these
mistake
portions would
Those
have
a
no
readers
soon
who
proper
medium.
to
the
relief.
raise
rub
have
and
the
these
bindings of
use
For
gold),
book
design
covers
with it
shabby.
become
; but
with
highly,as
too
got their 'prenticehand
notes
can
the back.
at
wax
calf
in trying experiments difficulty
suggested possibly by
the
relief
sufficient
effective
some
parts of the design in low
some
with
necessityof using
Miss
produces
^^ather
Design
in
to
in
will
new
directions,
the
beginner, it
.
certainlybe advisable
would
so
much
the
use
few
a
107
under
lessons
a
quicker acquired by of tools With
be
alone
can
basis
a
of
it is easy
knowledge
methods
fresh
existing
one's
to
get
practicaldemonstration.
imparted by
add
to
by hearing,while
seeing than
to
is
Method
practicalbinder.
WORK,
LEATHER
AND
BOOKBINDING
craftsmanship. speaking of
In
designs
have
I
schemed
out
to
point
they
notes
diagrams,
or
in
and
looked
suggestive
as
upon
no
be
the
look
of
leather.
degree, work
in
No.
73.
"
back
Of
course,
for Chair
Design and
72 for the
See
seat.
with
leather
Figs. 71
and
details.
kept steadilybefore
myself the cases
to
by how
in
Only
of actual
faint
a
the
render, in
can
even
I
by
used.
photographs work
effects
obtained
processes
as
way
indicatingthe to
that
out
be
must
company ac-
hints,
these I may
the
your
of
method draw
the
means
effects
securing
the
such
production, and effects
as
employed. are
obtained,
results, that
could It is and one
in all
endeavoured be
adequately
dered ren-
only by remembering the can
tools
design
employed for
the
io8
ART
craft.
CRAFTS
designs
The
experiments
as
modified
reallygrow
wholly
realised
for
wallet
a
place
for
certain
forms
design
if the
forms
might
be
The
dark
dyes. be
like full
would
present
leather.
and
is
effect
parts around
diflicultyto
no
It should
have
flexible,and
if the
it would
not
require any
that
be
can
The
left to
front
the
though
it could
highly
ornamentalised
feature
being
made
supports, which
is
incised
could
be
in
could
be
piece of calf, a
to
suit
matter
of
foliage, a the
tooling, It
embossed.
and
twistingof
the
itself
working
this is
designed
treatment
of
might
discretion.
74,
be
with
//^/'^ millboard
stout
a
a
flower
wallet
papers
backing, though
worker's
also
for
of
such
wallet
to
good
of
made
were
design, No.
cover
of
and
tinted
the
used
divisions
the
in
a
up
These
of the
one
backing
a
of
making
The
stars.
beating
by being edge
with
tooled
be
the
too
design
a
papers,
obtained.
the
be
is
is essential
accentuated
be
never
77
could but
be
to
design
a
can
No.
be
to
craftsman
contain
to
tulip flower
hang against the wall,
to
wall
embossed,
the
it
the
decoration
further
with
punched
should
a
The
incised
or
elsewhere,
fingers, and
nor
on
calendar.
embossed
said
upon
need
would
by his diagram.
hang
to
the
paper,
bound
have
looked
be
may
carrying out
I
under
on
tied and
As
AMATEURS.
drawn
in the
altered.
or
have
I
which
should
much
FOR
a
distinct the
around
stems
is
by tooling or
adequately rendered
incising. No.
is
suggested by
Renaissance
name
Mr.
70
is
a
class
of
to
which
book
cover
design A
loosely given.
Jacobsen's suggested the present design.
enclosed
by
punched
with
the
''strap work"
stars
or
dots.
"
strap
work
of
portions
is intended
border This
The
the
be
to "
is
a
ingeniouslytwisted
most
and
them
and
71
the middle
of the
obviously
fitted
sixteenth
72,
modelled
I have
work
panels, French
strap-work carved
some
upon
is
planned.
regards the designs,Nos.
As
109
century, and
sixteenth
of the
in the work
distinct feature
WORK,
LEATHER
AND
BOOKBINDING
century.
This
ot
is
strap work
so
for
being reproduced by sing, embos-
incising and
so
itself
is in
and
that
fective, ef-
and
ingenious
could
I
give,it seems
not
suitable
more
me,
to
tion decora-
of
schemes
for leather.
seats
and
backs
Chair
obviously
are
cles arti-
admirable
such
to
attention
amateur's
that
have
I
some
devoted to
space
designs
of
a
ing mak-
for these
I
purposes. sketch
the
engage
give
a
No.
74.
"
able chair suitaround
for leather work. Those wish out
when as
readers to a
toolingor incisingand
embossing.
who
get chairs
made
chair-maker it will
gested SugDesign for Book-cover, the of tendril a twisting by to be stem a produced by ;
be
to
found
they anticipate.
Of
to
the
particular design should
a
trade
that course,
the
and
get
charge
large and
is
find
an
estimate,
not
so
elaborate
heavy chairs,
CRAFTS
ART
no
the
"uch
as
some
five
pounds
of
furniture.
pieces and
seat
effective The
No.
to *
crafts.
'
the
to
always
are
then
position No.
is of
shown
in
background
prominence
to
heraldic
excellent
instead
here of
with
cost
imposing
are
for
leather
73), and
quite a
be
was
back
leather
stout
decidedly
67.
should
be
different
wrought
genre
by incising
Quaint
in character.
motifs in designs for would
In
into
come
incisinguse
No.
the animal.
they
the
saw
would
73.
frame. 75,
embossing
The
effect
foliated
in
seat
examples, being
great effect ; but the
in
No.
Design supported by Heraldrj',to and embossing.
the Other
beasts
I
one
design, No.
other
75."
In
is the
fastened
so
in
least, but
at
"laced" so
AMATEURS,
sketched
one
was
thongs (and
FOR
the
blind
with
toolingto get
heraldic
kept pretty flat,so
Heraldry
play
the
beast as
to
is full of decorative
the
give sug-
CRAFTS
ART
112
treated of
animal
as
"
as
more
decoration
in
Figures
are
"
than
children
for
leather
which
cupids
or
should
amateur
difficulties
have
joining of
the
as
not
and
is due
to
the
care
The
flat as
of
effect
rich and
this
while
backing
the
should
be
being
beaten
out
down
from
of
stout
brown
of the
back well out
home,
leather
relief be
those
the
also
glued,
portions in
back
before
them
of
paper into
the
on
cover
old
in
the
might to
hollows
be
those ;
Spanish
The on
to
The
large extent,
have
described
by
parts in low
in
glue then
paper
merely
portions I
and
the
pressed
well
until the
enough
sheets
again pressed
be
front
relief
three
or
soaked
though
which
relief.
a
if two
the
to
idea that the skin
relief should
from
large
ghied
backing dries, as
the
it
Or
obtained.
that
and
a
to
those
well
were
paper
to
embossing.
an
I
way
front, and
being pressed down
thicknesses
working
the
I have
back, and
the
leather
the
from
in
leather
up
effected,
plastic.
was
at
be
to
manipulated
pressed good
have
The
pieces of
paper
portions hammered
would
reason
in bookbinding,
are
the
the
it,and
manipulation
no
colouring, in
had, I believe, a backing of thick the
see
paperhanger gives
a
leather
kept
I
to
purposes,
they
as
together, so
important part,
gildingplays an
the
painted
of this kind.
decorate
to
things, the
two
of
many
other
works
great
as
these
expensive wall-papers.
persons.
and
put, and
essay
only
requires
surface, only
leathers
escape
embossed
of
are
certainlynot
are
for you "
leathers
Spanish
thought
adults.
revival
a
we
be
extent,
great
a
representationsof
as
wall-coverings,screens,
old the
why
been
has
to
being simplifiedand
"
"difficultiesinseparablefrom There
AMATEURS.
should,
forms
shapes
choosing
By
FOR
in
should
the
as
required glue
to
relief, well say
"
for
BOOKBINDING
I have
yet put it
not
the effect could the
over
in
described
there
as
much
be freer and
As
regards
colouring,two be
can
dye
be
in
front.
Of
designs bolder
have
already
the
in
Spanish the
course
than
stance sub-
incised,and
remember,
I
all
paper more
be
I
as
way
what
much
so
might
leather
the
had
book
a
work cover.
the
plans
adopted
to
:
stain
or
from
the
then
same
blind-tooled
are
if you
further
The
experiment"that
actual
of
would
the
though,
;
leathers
carried
WORK.
LEATHER
the test
to
manipulate.
to
should
be
back,
treated
AND
the
paint it
leather, or
in ordinaryoil solidly colour.
plan
The
is
better
former
certainlythe
adapted
to
material,as
it
pity
loose
a
of the
surface which
to
seems
the
leather, if you
do
you
the
7. with "
paint it, though the
was
in the
could
is added
a
gamboge, yellow, and
blue, cobalt
and
raw
burnt
golden
If solid
with
varnish
after
they
and
have
little hard
very
ochre
be
colours
floated
begun
to
with
green,
madder
they
freely,and
on
Your
set. I
amber
as
verte,
viridian, Indian
brown, of
some
among used
terre
used
turpentine,to
dry varnish,such
sienna, are
colours
transparent thinned
employed,
be
copal. Prussian
useful.
The
Spanish leathers.
by artists
or
Decorated Design for Wallet. incisingand embossing.
plan adopted
old
which
this
should not
scheme
the be
be of
most
mixed touched
colour,
ART
114
CRAFTS
therefore,must be
must
almost
Prussian
leaves
blue,
Indian
yellow,
madder
brown.
The
animals
might down
those
used much
so
book
of
The
decorated
with
planned does,
to
or
the
as
old
In
in
the
made
greens,
work
the
ground back-
a
a
small
as
as
decorated
be
will
planned
tree
as
indefinitely.A look
very
as
way
a
having
wall-paper suitable^
be
sketch
to
rich
design
A
screen.
did, would
of
ribs
design,as
the
would
leathers
leaves
The
to
of
same
in
and
be
not
of
room
or
stems
the
on.
continued
be
the
Spanish
the
stems
surface
; so, too, would
much
pigment
of
and
the
leather,
as
the
leather
I
saw
'at a
each
friend's
the
showing through produced
cowhide
plenty
coloured
partiallywiped off, and
was
harmonious is
There
of
examples
the
yellow rich
parently. trans-
separately.
some
house
the
by being punched
up
should
they
smoking
it materiallylessens
section
broken
as
the
tooled
be
treatment
could
leathers
repeat
in
used
cream
while
foliagepart
ornamental
libraryor
a
; and cover,
series of scrolls,and
dado
as
an
could
its surface
greater.
noticed, is
be
frog could
high relief,and
edges,
leaf
punches a
or
in rich varied
be
in
the
at
have
on
white
could
design, or
a
varying proportions,and
^should be
disc
with
over
of
colour
sienna, golden ochre, gamboge,
of each
centre
could
a
flowers
could
raw
in
incised
be
get tacky, it is
colours
78, the bird, animals, snake, and
give.No.
The
be
the
manipulation
your
Semi-solid
them.
in spots, say
and
varnish
slightlyheightened "with
of
AMATEURS.
upon,
these
impossibleto'use
I
be
is
decided
be
rapid/as when
introduced one
FOR
warm
a
very
effect. of
Screen
evidences, for
for
room
No.
here
we
69 have
experiments shown a
work
at
the
in
colouring
Paris
in which
bition Exhi-
tooling,.
AND
BOOKBINDING
No.
78, "
dotted forms work.
embossed
Suggested design for lines show
where
to be in relief.
the
This
WORK.
LEATHER
leather Wall
joins might
design could
be
Hangings.
made.
also be
115
The
treated
The
animal in
poker
ii6
ART
embossing boats
itself is and
and
the
on
be
finished other
applying
*"
colour
the
of
so
long
as
either
great
keep
lost ?
I
given
consideration
made Coloured
when
its part
plays
be
may
made
of
vellum, which, being
colouring being
as
that
seen
one
to
is
made
surface
finished.
work
in
to
one
yield a
advocate
the
should
and
leather
be
does
other
certain
class
was
always
be
not
finished
this of
employment
tinting leather, shall
the in
It
us.
no
working
of
trace
give
the
of
use
will
leather
have
medium.
another
as
it will
very
make
highly prized
leather
in
a
should
and
finished, all
else
and
piece of work,
same
is the
and
combination,
I
means
be
what
colours
of the
the
of work
me
yield its quota leather
in
rightlyused
nothing
in
or
command,
your
uses
"
incising
"
his reach.
in should
transparent the
singly at
kind
work
if
materials, because
but
parent semi-trans-
be
tooling,"
"
within
it,else
to
our
imagine
such
of
within
works
one
if,when
here
of
the
all three
imitatingone
leather
even
coloured
be
to
work
you
resources
are
you
value
dyes with
of
employed
using
utmost
effects
outline
tooled
colouring can which
on
allows
in
material
of
the
leather
under-surface
of effects
hesitation
The
that
say
processes
has
no
at
blind
a
the
material
yet the
colouring mention
the
to
three
class
attempt
have
of
effect
vellum.
craftsman
varied
The
effect.
embossing,"
the
to
surface
semi-transparent,
With
clouds
then
methods
the
blended.
are
ornamentally.
necessary
the
that
so
through
the
as
light,as
AMATEURS.
and highly pictorial,
is treated
hardly
should
Of
is
water
water
It is
FOR
colouring
considered,
the
in the
CRAFTS
so
that
obliterate.!,
result. be
well
varnished
CHAPTER
Inlaying
VII.
Coloured
in
Woods
Stained-Wood
and
Decoration.
T
the
exhibitions
of the
work
executed
of the
Home
Arts
seen
some
carried
stepped
had
breaking
brief
cutter,
and
by
and, possibilities,
important
An
is
work ''
Trial
to
kind
this
charge
of
I
"
; and to
the
be
may
hope,
the
start
judge's
an
the
some
and
open on
a
can
first
is
novel
and
one
take
a
of
some
him
fresh
of
branch
any
Gilbert's
In
from
'*
with
thing
thus
track.
new
mind.
open
by
to to
up
the
marquetry
attention
studying
refrain
for
disposal
my
his mind in
inlays,
and
inlayer
reader's
be
to
are
responsible
at
the
stimulus
wood
groove,
space
Hall
original designs
obtained
designer
heart, for
those
followed,
it with
the
Association
the
consideration
approach
by Jury,"
every
craft
directing
that
methods
the
the
of
survey
the
the
coloured
had
in
I shall
striking effects.
under
in
of
tradition
from
away
Albert
and
that
out
in the
clever out
showing treatment
held
bias
free
advantage has
to
of
take do
in
ii8
ART
making while,
the
that
has
familiar
it were,
disinfect,as of
FOR
is
original effort
an
all
chance
CRAFTS
it
been
not
with
done
forget, or
to
devices
one's
acting
AMATEURS.
and
mind,
and
then
in
ways
is
there
same
way
course,
some
is
under
the
one's
for,
;
all know
we
there
nothing
new
be
To
sun.
self,to
act
taneously spon-
from
one's
and initiative,
own
to
"
doing something
quite the of
the
for
well-worn
freshness, and
before
banish
from
free
self-consciousness, that
so
gives
one
fact
one's
"
is
"
take
is
what
to
within
pression ex-
in
ego^
to
be
original,I
it,
and
therefore
the styleis individuality,
expression of
critics have
Some
for
me
sured cen-
advocating with
doctrine
a
such
insistence,because No.
^Wood Inlay, by the 79. the Hon. lico Class, under "
will
Pim-
self.
one's
be
"
no
there "
in
style
Mrs.
work
Carpenter.
done
under
such
a
controlling idea, they say.
doesn't
I fail to
note
work of
is live
these
in his
give himself
personal one's
what
see
critics
work, what
everything,the and
tradition
"
interest the
being
one
other
for if
mean,
does
he
give ?
quality which people.
trammelled
at
a
The makes
The the
man
start
lowing fol-
by
ART
120
what
has
been
being
but
a
always
It is not all
that
is not
enunciate has
the
into
than
one's
at,
truism
that
thus self is
The
many. but
will
we
towards
ornamental
are
have
we
originalitywe putting
as
flowers
he
but
it.
If
is
nature
design
;
other
suggestions ( n
to
make
some
saw
which
the
of
planning
on
modelled
are
of
not, it is bound
or
in repeating Border plant being taken,
seed-pods and
the
we
being, becoming part
our
seeing everything as
one
no
a
before, for w^hat
thing
same
Ornamental
hinted
in
and
worker,
such
gone
effort
any
glasses,and
1."
the
stronger
one
fibre,and, whether
but
8
to
passes
expression in
No.
some
of what
find
worker's
of
studied
mental
our
AMATEURS,
paralyses
"
necessary
and
FOR
behind.
result
the
seen
done
shadow
be
to
CRAFTS
the
we
only from
bine, Colum-
is the
tirst
consideration.
are
going
thing, by has
into
been the
the
the
way,
done,
we
being original)we
as
must
matter;
a
leave
Whether but
Academicians
fallinginto
original effort (not quite
an
unknown.
is another what
make
to
certain
that of
many call
the
must
well-worn will us
definite
groove,
what
and
strike
to
I take so
that
to we
goal
our
willing to
are
style(which
us
same
forget path
bring
the
forego
mean
can
the be
INLAYING.
pigeon-holed
121
bureau) for
critics' mental
in the
of
sake
the
individuality. of
craft
the
In
unfortunately, forget which
has
one
its
with
; and
by tradition this is fatal
82.
to
in
that
to
Number
of The
modern
movement
In on
some
is
a
choice
far
abroad,
as
Art on
No.
and
the 81
subject as
in which
instance,
I wish
to
possible;
settle in tlie of
did
not
I
the go
Paris
Extra
of
the
seen.
purposely
give but
men crafts-
examples be
may
interesting
who the
ment. orna-
pure
example
an
to
is
simplest
French
and
readers
refer
Continent for
of
80, is
as
most
quit Paris
that
see
the
Only is treated
group
those
Journal,
lines,because of
to
Oak. stem
to
consequence
of the
some
itself should
designs.No.
traditional
wide
so
the
in that
found
be
the
on
while
Wardrobe,
Exhibition
the
founded
bound hide-
more
are
beginning
are
art,
preventing all
us,
virility.The
and
patterns
traditional
who
French, are,
Exhibition
gone
The
spiritthat
new
to
have
provinces.
we
taken,
plant are
departures are who
than
Border,
Paris
the
the
even
progress
Simple
"
facts of the
This
shackles
well-recognisedformulae,
cannot,
one
well-known
of
dozens
let into furniture.
seen
free movement
No.
the
instance,
for
inlayer,
the
the
where
work
student I do
as
so,
I
though
admit
I must
motifs
the
certain
import
to
try
are
Renaissance
in
having what
to
earn
their
living,they
paid
for
are
them
asked
being
83.
forms.
The
insects
might
craftsman
the
best
data In
I
I have
stimulus
or
leaf stems
use
and
into
rein
not
as
of
reproduction.
number
of
pieces
which
that
speaking far
prefer
freshness
The
plant
of
amateur
and
insect
feature.
The
ivory. in
work
a
do
and
of my
some
do
to
particular just as
conditions, will
designs
to, is
to
use
it
strivings, act
as
a
for
something original;
essay
them
as
dogmas.
designing inlays,the
method
or
fancy
artificial
no
am
ornamental
an
his
to
but
would
imposed.
obligation to
put my
can
they
mother-of-pearl
readers
my
notes,
that
I
conventionalised
only hope
can
they
of
no
imposed
when
I think
; but
"
made
are
choice
no
do
to
period, because,
original design,
of
formed
give
can
dictates ; and where
Border
be
have
say "
an
a
only condition
the
is under but
groove,
I
make
Continuous
"
doing
when
to
being
treatment
such-and-such
of
compelled
often
too
are
style
of
most
No.
designers
the
they
for
French
this so-called
in
as
this where
work.
Professional work
known
scheme
the do
difficult to
it very
I find
into
touches
personal
well
so
AMATEURS.
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
122
thing
first The
have
to
is the
remember
design is composed to
be
cut
out
of
very
of
a
thin
INLAYING.
wood
let into
(veneers)and
certain
We
silhouette certain
in
combine
us
of
fact, and
not
showing "
skill in
our
Nature and
stimulus,
ingenuityfree play, and
fruit
"
and
limitations
the
utmost
tendril
or
leaf-stem
feature,take
what
want
of the
and
accordingly
balance, extent
The natural
with
plant
amateur
form
we
faithful 1
be
the
by
taken,
fancy
our
as
and
restrained
be
must
way
given
be exhibited must
a
A
the
and
true
as
nature.
chance
no
allow
we
by
the the
twist
We
take
can
into
stem
a
it becomes and
selected we
craft.
our
a
zigzag,
geometrical device, develop
want,
form
do
purely
leave
out
what
the
basis
of
as
this
method
a
with
of
a
ornamental we
our
do
not
design ;
fitness, ingenuity,
reproduction,
to
that
successful.
be
remember
that
reproducing
it in
must
and
by
us
until
suitabilityto
shall
all
nature,
we
as
on
other
scroll, or a
''
can
as
must
we
shape,
a
made the stems are Border, in which being only distantly suggested in
imposed
Hcence
continuous
a
our
leaves."
"
the
but
above
84." Simple continuous leading feature, nature "
such
is
there
taken, indeed
be
can
as
displayed in
be
A
characterise
transcriptof
a
giving
form,
of the natural
guide
No.
as
decorated.
be
to
everything
of
forms, seeing that
our
painter. our
surface
ingenuity,therefore, should
we
coppie
think
must
the
severity,should
simplicity,even
design.
123
designing is not a
certain
taking a
conventional
ART
124
is
but
way,
carrying bear
them
resemblance
Rubinstein's
wine
but to
nature
Our
distant
very
of
does
to
the
taking
amateurs
85.
"
formed
Border
and
lessons
for
firms
in
though
large
relationship is
which brief
times some-
description tion considera-
technical
It
is
effects
coloured
wood,
repeating
some
possible
to
obtain
by inlaying,as
pearl,ivory,and
metals.
we
and
beautiful
ones
I have
as
details
can
be
top
with
engraved
simple beautiful
material,
to
mother-of-
quaint
pewter,
effects
while
some
produced by using
been class on
inlaying;
any
some
seen
the
to
most
use
can
have
engraved ivory, especiallyfor 91,
the
varietyot colours,
produced by inlaying light oak refined
get
the
at
understand
makers
-
to
nothing else,
for
kept
are
cabinet
well
forms;
used
cabinet-maker men
in its infinite
fish-like
do
of "waves."
borders
are
a
craft would
the
up
two
of
good
most
inlaying.
of
bottom
half-a-dozen
No.
be
nature,
are
same
give a
to
as
advanta^se
grapes
the
the
to
on
may
with
grape,
I shall
As
one.
"
bear
result
inlaying.
Those
from
can
will pass
design, we
of each
design
and
form
might that
nature,
final
natural
One
aphorism
champagne
as
a
No.
is art."
The
the
to
ourselves.
recognised only by remember
suggested by
harmoniously.
out a
AMATEURS,
ideas
developing
distant
so
FOR
CRAFTS
of
the
design
seen
ivory,and
in these
INLAYING,
carried
in
out
two
inlays
the
directions.
various
in
in
wrought browns,
the
and
No.
86.
forms. the
glue, SO
that
weight
a
;
dry.
In be
carbon
paper
themselves accuracy spaces
and
departing
be
could
with the care
the from
used, detail
can
same
of the
must
be
by
transferred be
put
two
the
also
in
Where
were
the
design it
the
on
is
work
marking
always
lines. in
them,
plant and
no
this will tend
exercised is
cut
inlays coming
times
of
wood
there
to
section.
until
them
tracing,as
same
to
for
that
so
in each
hard-point, and
a
is
in browns.
made
varied
number
the
to
inlays,for the
a
yellow
lib., of alternate
ad
upon
the
fresh, strong, boiling
danger
kept
of
inlaying:
recesses
be
is the
no
repeated
transferred
but
is
there
should
from ;
repeated
latter
foliageportion
patterns
should
be
can
These
alike,while
hot
are
which
Border,
"
in
with
in
them
thoroughly glue
to
animal
out
fit into the
pieces accurately to
from
harmony
a
observed
be
points to
two
are
effect is
general
the
of
(marquetry)
varying
woods,
three
or
that
so
There
two
furniture
inlaid
seventeenth-century Dutch
say-
wood
deal
good
A
tones, the
given by using
be
variety can
yellow brown,
is
design
a
similar
of
woods
three
or
Where
black.
with
in
filled
lines
engraved
125
to
over
inlays insure
cutting out the
the
danger light
by engraving,
and
of
woods then
126
ART
rubbing
in
indicated
be
dark
some
in
FOR
CRAFTS
AMATEURS.
this way
87.
No.
there
; but
ornamental
like
suitable
the
next
The
at.
The
Japanese,
inlayers,carve
it
have
kept trust
the
A
let very
is flat. Z^
No. the
is
to
flat, unless
in relief after
objectsin
the
in.
them
little
I
more
details in relief while
whole
himself
skilful
very
few
could
work
are
of
rather
give varietyto work,
of the work
relief,as
then
on
would
instance,in
If the
who
be
some
the rest for
given
much.
too
then
would
trouble, and to
is
for I would
many
and relief,
think
bein^
facts
design
than
engraving
no
low
must
page.
imitatinga woodcut, have
foliage yellow forms, to be greatly
the
bare
bottom
at
the
;
of
animal
inlays,
for
simplified, only hinted
Frame
other
can
attempt
no
rendering
flag. Birds, be
in leaves
be
must
for inlaid
Design
"
an
veins
the
Thus
colour.
to
the
of wood perfectlylegitimate'^form
berries,
be in
could
in
acorns
be
of
The
slight
No.
82.
French-polished,
the
the
gluing
work
must
could
worker in
the
polishingis decoration,
be
portions finished. and
one
128
CRAFTS
ART
get into the knack
polish is put
on,
of
using
and
the
polishing is badly in
reproduced made, and the
as
is
one
and
not
much It
the
give
for
give
to
the
a
Wardrobe,
brush
80,
No.
skill is necessary into
woods
should
append
will
I
so
of
be
to
a
cut
elaborate
so
content
{^"^ notes
a
take
them
that
little
to
a
thing some-
essay
almost
suggestions which
student
modifying
and
himself, adapting
in
order.
to
next
he them
object is
work
must
to
bility impossi-
an
chief
my
The
is made
attempt
no
or
again
then
the illustrations
on
being
inlaying,that
thing, and
one
be
severelysimple.
effect
the
can
far, in fact the effect of
very
Enormous
will understand
reader
the
In
be
use
you
the
could
modifications
where
the
way
spoilt if
be
designs given
certain
coloured
is the
will
down
is carried at.
remains
themselves,
the
inlay.
amateur
more
now
tied
you
various
and
scheme,
All
so
when
arrived
fit the
rubber, which
a
decoration
done.
pictorialeffect
painting is
AMATEURS.
staining,though
liquidas
a
FOR
to
for
out
circumstances
as
demand. No.
around
distributed
growths, by
the
details
line
running
suggested by
are
being speciallydrawn
columbine
to,
the
as
details
character, the
waved
a
adhered
means
no
the
All
border.
in
ornamental
is very
81
being the
through various
plant
though
upon,
entwining tendril
has
no
counterpart in the aquilegia. This any
class
work, in which
nature
is
should particularplant being specified,
to
amateurs,
as
it is in the No.
the
of
82
leaves
as
success
is
not
more
ornamental
is founded
upon
and
is
acorns
so
suggested without itself
commend
difficult of attainment
here
stylesof design. the
oak, but
followed, the
stem
only
the
being
shape
treated
ot as
INLA
follow
that
skill as
a
a
designer is
adapted
suit the
is
necessityof
to
the
which
with
spontaneity
rapidity, but hard
be
fact is
the
not
Your obligatory.-is modified
nature
way
in hand.
certain
A
inlayis not
our
it does
basis
a
like
simplicity brush
a
of
used and
is
ible, inflex-
and and
for
case,
colour
can
work
as
to
in
shown
I2""
nature
adherence
close
and a
taking
In
ornament.
pure
YING..
a
88."
No.
Circular
berries, the an
of the
and
,
.
made
Border
leaves
of
formed
beinn; important feature is design ; nature
only
hinted
model
can
stems
at, and if any be pointed to,
it is theVirginianCreeper.
slow
operation
compared
as
therefore
painted decoration; utmost
be
displayed,so
of effect is
of
imply
that but
scamped,
reproduction. you a
obtain
kind
of
the
that In
the
design
be
should
selectingthe woods,
relief between
lightand
should
work
shade,
with
the
This
the
it were. K
does
arrange
of
means
them
the different parts of the as
least
hastily and
done suit
maximum
the
time.
the
should
means
that
produced
expenditure not
of
economy
with
so
that
design ;
ART
I30
No.
CRAFTS
is of
83
material,such into
FOR
simple character; shell
pearl
as
the butterflies,
the
lightwood
be
possibly to markings
used
the
would
worker
choice
some
introduced
be
If
enhanced.
be
add
could
of the
if
but
ivory,could
or
effect
the
effect
his work,
to
design, by engraving
as butterflies,
the
on
AMATEURS.
indicated
I have
on
a
and
few
a
of
one
the insects.
84 I started
No.
In
series of curves, with a
and
then
forms, one
two
the
developed line,very
much
as
in No.
of
composed
the
efl"ective in
look
inlay,and
work
nature
be
must
one
fish.
treated
are
the
too
patterns. for
in
Think
think
simple
facts
of
wings,
are
central
this
border,
distant way,
very
as
the
was
using
animal
being
efforts
to
the
made
and
to
to
forms
occupy
tendency their
invent
If it be
colour, but
beak, tail and
and
forms
86, the animal
arranged as
so
no
"
objects as shapes.
head
present
simplified merely
reference
of feathers
fish.No.
should
fight against
their
of all
instance,don't
no
and
Beginners must natural
much
design. No.
next
ornaments,
as
spaces.
being
the
In
In
very
generalised shape taken,
any
a
In
I
the
ornamentalised
highly
in carrying out. specialdifficulty
for such
character
plant being made,
one
any
in
the other
82.
border
85, would
to
at
a
the spaces
about
stalk will.
forms
and
seed-pod
a
it entwine
nasturtium
a
fill out
to
its ornamental
to
stalk, making
direct reference
The
proceeded
I
add
to
line, which
central
though suggested,is hinted
nature,
case
the
suggested by
and
tripleleaf;
no
with
a
of
own
bird,
of
the
feet,and
forget all else. 87 shows
the
foliagepart
of
No.
The
several
of the
other
treatment
the
of
scheme
designs,and
mirror
a
is is
more
a
or
other
frame.
naturalesque
than
simphfied renderingof
I NLA
YING,
131
ARl
132
the be
yellow flag. in the
natural
strive for
relief
in
only
woods
the
woods
colouring, this green
leaves.
yellows
and
browns,
light
a
be
can
this way,
few
a
in
AMATEURS.
having
if desirable
and
obtained
of
sense
by opposing
Stained
one.
FOR
regards
As
harmony
a
necessary
of
CRAFTS
a
are
to
for
a
great
be
not
might
You
getting the
against a of
purchased
darker chants, mer-
veneer
variety of
colour
harmonies
with. the
simple
but
colour
need
preferred to
a
be
can
use
extended
more
palette. No.
88
table.
A
A
would
do
distinct feature in reds
harmony
and
introduction
animals Such
into
objects,as
the
!han in
introduced
as
grain of
the
of
deal
many
designers
order
of the
them.
The
floated than
in, not others.
at
No.
decoration,
evenly The
designed
treated
as
as
of
quaintness
''
to
work.
be
no
mere
as
carefully rather
ornament
is made
be
"
obtained
different
animal
forms
the
of
effect
by using
would
as
the
sea-horses
but are
the
colour
angles.
considerable much
is too
89,
all over,
same
suggestions, and
it with
vegetable kingdom
stained-wood
stalks.
guide.
a
directions, for the
seen
used
panel.
round
suitable
be
of character
be
ornamental
have
entwining
a
accessories.
variety may
is full of
Seaweed
the
hinted, must
must
the
in various
wood
deal
feature
to
quite different
will look
they
A add
good
and
of
birds, frogs, lizards,insects, and
details, and
to
90,
edge
would
elsewhere
nature.
the
foliageas
autumn
but
nature,
bits from
fungi are A
I have
ornamental
No.
browns
warm
of
of
inlays,gives a good
transcriptsof as
at
is made
regards colouring,taking The
border
be
effect,this
neglected by
very
suitable
for
could
be
background darker very
though
in
some
ornamental
places crea-
YING.
INLA
interest
and
give variety
and
tures,
^11
the
to
the
of
rest
design. Figures
treated
when
greatlyto
No.
91.
been
this is the
interest of
the
an
In
could
the
engraved
tyro unless
success.
This
been
added
Panel
Figure
insects.
design.
a
be
and
fact
feels
adequately rendered,
as
if
cases
boxwood
boy ridmg on a dragon-fly reproduced in stained decoration.
and
employed,
should
black.
not
be
capable of doing
figures are
inlays, and
add realistically
some
filled in with
and difficulty, he
In
into
of
materials
on,
than
rather
ornamentally
ivory have
have
introduced
been
alwajs
Ornamental
"
driving
or
have
best
badly
avoided done
they
Of
details course
attempted by
this unless mar
the
and
with
some
they the
are
whole
effect.
would
They in
a
they
should
in
decorations
introducing being
children
with
figures of
the
scope
are
it
of
ingenuity
that
it
difficult known"
pearl shel], and dark
ground,
little
How
inlaying can late
be
of
chiefly beautiful
the
like
heads of
tones
or
only
be
the
of
flowers.
Much waxed.
so
that of
has
it is full
with
nice
a
have
to
exceedingly
91, be
wood
of
much
viotifsare
could
suggests
there
is
no
in with
box
or
well
so
put
79
the and
on
a
treated
as
the
this
veneers
whole
inlaid
of the
In
works
only giving The
effect 80.
remarkable were
and
forms
class
produced.
paper
hemlock
the
it is
No.
one.
white
quite
some
brown,
harmony.
unpolished
on
the
insects in
pared com-
within
objection I
by referringto Nos.
seen
Plants
the
planned,
that
in
graceful
That
profit, for
The
all
could
effect
design
massing by skilfully shape
figure
Exhibition
Paris
shown.
if the
and
the
a
well
inspiration, is
good
a
with
very
In
as
Renaissance,"
proportion.
hackneyed.
trammelling,
such
"
where
ease
certainlymore
are
their
reason
motifs^ too, look
study
can
individual
even
comparative
name
in
designs,one
grown-ups."
"
decoration,
successful
very
into their
; such
usually
and
of
be
to
is
and
source
a
were
with
the
under
of balance as
French
than
designer
a
The
century
adults
amateurs
design, grouped in
design.
bargain. They
in the
of
of
rendered
they
fanciful
scheme
cupids
or
that
and
sense
last
the
put in
be
can
general
part of the
really form
and
the
details
and
regards the figuresthemselves,
As
with
fit in
difficulties if reproduced
fewer
outlines
the
fine brush.
or
pen
AMATEURS.
far
present
stain, as
with
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
-134
were
veneers
the
general
used effect
furniture
were
was
a
was
obtain
to
CRAFTS
ART
136
design
portions
it
places, while
No.
certain
One 92. Trocadero F.
fancy obtain
that
relief than
gesso
I
the
the
Panels
in
Coloured
Designed
by
little
have
can
these
I
amateurs,
or
can
for the Relief, executed Gerald Modelled Moira,
Jenkins.
relief;
wouldn't
reply:
Relief
I
design
the
certain
to
thickly in
on
chieflyaddressing
am
question being asked,
this
different
the
parts of
Restaurant.
Lynn
the
As
of
"
by
To
by putting
applied.
none
easily develop
can
working by giving prominence
are
of
AMATEURS.
relief,you
quality and
you
FOR
effect if it
to were
the
"
painted
is
design
to
take
Why
merely painted,as
trouble
decoration
relief,and have
the
it
gives
it carried no
be
amount
out
to
cient?" suffi-
a
very
in lowof skilful
GESSO.
brush-work the
to
the
panel,
No.
find
working
93."
Two
gives.
effect gesso
painting. Furthermore,
the
in gesso
A
reference
words
than
better
demonstrates
92,
modelling helps
will
the
produce
can
how
amateur
an
fascinatingoccupation,yielding
a
I T^o.
Gesso
Designed
a
more
alone.
his outset
Panels and
from
executed
result satisfactory He
will
see
brush), and he
will
the
Pulpit of Teddington by Mr. Reginald Hallward.
than
his work
growing
by obtaining be
led
on
to
can
success
attempt
be
obtained
by paint
his
fingers (or
under
(of more
Church.
a
kind)
difficult
at
the
effects,
ART
138 and
decoration,
the
on
other
difficulties increase
his
far
as
is
as
finallygiving
muddle
reached
Gesso,
unlike
No.
AMATEURS.
his
unconsciously develop
thus
work
FOR
CRAFTS
hand, the
rather
in
there
despair owing
in his attempt
paint, seems
such
a
in
carrying
of
condition
of
the
result. satisfactory
a
pleasant material
Writing Cabinet, the front design is a free treatment reference direct flowering shrub, though no will be noticed, the stems As plant is made. Decorated 94. The let down. "
be
to
ornamental
with. the
on
gesso
you
is arrived
at
all
recall
own
my
hopeless difficult
on
and in
thicker
suggests, and
too
soon
things to
I
bring out places
reach
never
first efforts
condition
play
some
any one made
are
feature.
it
blob
You
to
to
made
of
to
an
the
is the likelihood to
produce
to
painted
In
is apt to find the
amateur
diminish
than
desirable, and up
craft.
soon
manage
that
in the
got at
as
the
fancy
your
state
the
by
design by getting
your
of
in.
oil-painter.
of oil colour There
outset
copy
imbecilitywhich
amateur use
or
than
are
and few
I
the more
oil colours
"
GESSO,
said it was
Ruskin to
obtain is
Gesso
like
modelling
it in
95.
clay or
about
Design
"
in
than
more
are
design both value
for Coffer, with
is
details
in oils than uses
to
more
the which
gesso
desired
gesso.
it cannot
panel
and
lid.
have
craft like gesso
a
the
have
simple
same
a
qualityand
in the former, unless
possessed by
the
a
painter
in gesso,
and
this
quite apart
be
put
where
painting
can
the
96.
It will
skill is
tool
is obtained.
effect
decorated No.
adequate
finger and
can
by carrying out
technical worker
see
he
an
many
give an
in possibilities
seen
paint and
in the latter which
great deal
the
in
as
practice.
that
respect,
object can
an
wax,
ornamental
painting,as
this
until the
For
There
in
and
"
of considerable
matter
a
paint
cannot
plasticmaterial
No.
is
mastery
rendering of
difficult of all handwork
most
any
who
amateur
the
139
from would
ART
140
be
of small
other
CRAFTS
effect.
frame,
of the the
frame of
use
equal
ornamental
; but
in
value
painting
longer apprenticeship,and painted,it would use
as
decorative
a
here
glue, and
he
tells
manipulated wood
with
before
the
brush
rather
panel,
other
Of
in
should
is
be
not
a
A
is
which
making
makes a
very
certain
a
a
limit
for the
gesso
his work
"
and
stained
Denoline
good
composition
"
gesso,
for oneself.
can
and
out
a
on
plaster or
a
therefore
bastard be saves
the
it is obtained. relief that that
remember
must
a
in
repeats
of
amount
should not
works
up
lets it flow
bas-relief,but
a
to
relies upon
merely
the
worker
allowed
''blobby" quality to
worker
to
down
who
he
the
it differ from
The
in gesso,
called
that
sizes
thinned
Hallward, me
fish-
He
be
must
(a rigger),and
sculptor carving
material
size
glue
are
easily
gesso,
requireshigher relief until
he
attempted,
it is,work
with
takes
He
service.
and
hard.
veiy
Mr.
gesso.
makes
painting in relief,and what
the
gives
relief
there
course,
course,
brush
which
operation where
done
material, tells
this
and
work
drying
entirely.
almost
decoration
the
this
long-haired
the
the
Paris
of
of
gesso
panels
admirable
be
can
Of
in
deal
plaster
and
this
applying
uses
it makes
makes
gesso
be
might
be of small
of whose
that
warm,
first,and
good
to
when
paintwould
three
93,
me
boilingwater.
dry a
No.
reproduced.
it
well
of much
require a
this alone
and relief,
where
agent
would
practice in
decoration
a
then, however
Reginald Hallward,
Mr.
the
not he in
little
obtain
to
simple
the flat surface
up
this after very
material
new
break
gesso,
agreeably,and
our
picture or
a
could, by puttingsome
We
it in
running-patternupon
this clear, take
make
To
of oak.
say
AMATEURS.
FOR
sort
decorator be of
purchased the
he
frankly carving. in
trouble
tins of
GESSO.
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ART
142
Gesso
CRAFTS
be
can
down
scraped of contour
tooled
and
cotton-wool stuck
on
when
this foundation
hollow
to
94,
as
suits gesso, be
can
made
has
work
not
lot
of
and
a
of
part the
used.
a
well
leaves
lettingit come
a
here
to
the
leaf turned
is
by
meant
brush the
of
gesso
"
the
of
of it
he
outline.
gesso
that
effect
pencil,
it holds
as
the
cabinet, No.
is
point only could
94,
be
end, and
where
the
could
be
loaded
those
describe who
me.
in
wTitingwhat
familiar
are
A
suggest
Jap
artists call
the
darks
efiect of
give the
to
on
takes
by dexterously pressing on to
so
up
part, and
the
is able
the
broad
at
follow
in
the
in
brush
but
a
obtained
be
can
spread
leaf is neared,
the
and
rapidly put
be
can
brush
the
the
Scrolls, curves,
the gradually lifting
point
What
the
hair
to
No.
as
the
brush
on
will
upright
general work,
deal
brush-work,"
colour, and
an
for
the
such
freely,so
curves,
It is difficult to
over.
leaf widens,
drawing
a
decoration
Japanese
the gesso
round, long camel-hair
good
produced by pressing on
come
of
up
leaf,and of
end
The
on
brush
the
appearance.
little practice. A
small, does
as
as
painted
danger
no
design,
it pretty
from
made
by just pressing
that
be
keeps
wool
"
brush-work
spontaneous
gesso,
broad
and
in this way,
is then
there
desired
gesso
can
gesso The
freely.
the
built up
more
and
in
soaked
required.
"
a
flow
forms
a
too
dried
sharpness
relief is
of
form
by holding
as
to
a
continuous in after
be
used
and
it dries.
is known
What
be
can
amount
the
extent,
some
cracking as
is
if
manipulated, and
should
has
surface
sharp instruments,
the knife
surface,and
if a better
on
then
fibre
or
the
with
up
considerable
any
AMATEURS.
other^^'ise
is desired
Where
FOR
the
form
accidental
with a
full
hair
as
without
qualities
ART
144
CRAFTS
technical
and
utterance, small
skill that
so
of
dodges
that
workers
have
you
effects
not
kind, from
apart
often
material
it will
or
where
effort
be
which
cannot
master
of
and
you,
results of
than
therefore
all be
your free
a
purely painstaking
is revealed
work
and
lecognised by
by accident
master
method
your
blundering
your
must
certainty ot and stippling^
to
it is well
You
bttter
to
in
resort
hide
to
come
soon
will lead
treatment
to
that
by deliberation.
obtained
itself
exhibit
should
that
And
bungling.
AMATEURS.
FOR
instead
of
concealed.
said
I have
it is
course,
one's
and
here
is
put
the
to
with
done
be is
gesso
result.
plays who
Those
that the
one
beginner
inental
work,
he
then
and
must
avoid
should
have
getting
gesso,
used
his efforts
vv-ith a
cientlyexpert
to
little be
to
should
the
in
oil
to
use
not
At
the
the
wish
outset
it for
use
first of
ways,
amateur
gold
of
painterswould
and
Gilding is
take.
much
finished
the
should
medium
practice the
able
role
and
panel,
be
can
colouring
paintingthickly. a
the
remove
it is obvious, therefore,
and
try colouring it in various
can
direction
gesso,
the
it partially
painting,as
You
panel.
gesso
crispness of
the
lose
a
than
accomplished
not
are
task
good tip,
oil,and
The
colours.
comes
colour
and
important
an
will
The
varnish
exacting
such
delightin colouring
the
with
"
a
wipe
then
which
work,
transparent less
much
a
in relief
work
to
the
fairlythinly,diluted
may
and
on,
me
gave
for, of
oil colour
takes
accident
happy
parts in highest relief.
in those
used
"
Hallward
colour
over
rag
It
state.
again
Reginald
colouring gesso,
about
raw
Mr.
by passing a
colour
its
aid.
that
off
far
so
left in
not
pleasantly,and
most to
nothing
leaf with
can
experiall,and so
learn
help
a
to
get 5ufiimuch
effect
GESSO.
for
M5
touchingiLpand accentingparts of
afterwards
gold
with
be coloured
is
gildinga flat surface, which A accomplishsuccessfully. hints in
few found
in
gesso
can
can
a
very
different business to
requiresmuch
practiceto
will be gilding
Chapter XIV.
for the
As
This
design.
transparentcolours,so that the
through. This
shows
the
to
uses
be put
as
agent, so many
which rative deco-
a
objects
///^-"^-o-^g^r^r \
No.
98. Design for a Stool or a Coal-box, decorated with ornament suggestedby Venetian work of the sixteenth century. The top and sides (showinghow the front should be made to let down) are shown. Gildingcould be introduced with considerable effect. "
suggest themselves this
subject,and
it will also afford
sayingsomething about accompany
better devote
that I had
these notes.
an
littlespace
Let
me
to
of opportunity
illustrations I have
the
L
i
me
a
drawn
repeat here,what
to
I have
1^6
ART
had
CRAFTS
occasion
to
diagrams,
for
This
only
can
94
is
made
to
let
inside
could
No.
be
to
free
a
made.
the
This
design might
oak
or
the
whole
colours flat and could
should
play
thickness
in the
No.
up
into
the
decoration
of
and
design
of
a
and
gesso
;
The
tinted
in
be
left
others, again, in
gesso, used
be
not
pine and
on
might
leaves
relief.
if it were
design
the
with
flowers.
and
wrought
of the
a
A
through
the
form
one
stem
somewhat
and
panels in
certain
to
No. that
and
the
fact, same
that
they
the
end
ornamentally
are
lid
of
seen
I have
in the
linen
give
chests
sketch
a
which
of
of the
reader
largely
gesso
and I
three
96
uniformity
panels, as
work, and
coffers
decorated.
so
largerscale, so
details.
century, used
furniture,and
Coffer, the
shown
on
be
an
they
as
wood
plain
then
higher
articles
the
among
95
the
can
into
considered, leaves
plant
one
any
everywhere.
in gesso,
run
white,
over
decorated
the
it
or
The
highly
developed
the
by
be the
etc.
papers,
to
first
on
Italians,in the sixteenth
The
were
be
only just touched
brought
for
are
transparently. Some
others
be
wood,
coloured
used
stems
worked
while
foliage somewhat
is clothed
be
choice
other
of
should
which
skeleton
divisions
main and
were
might
writing slope,
a
particularreference
The
important feature, are
with
of which
front
as
treatment
no
effect of gesso.
the
work.
serve
fitted
practical
or
figure panels, which
the
Cabinet, the
down
is
in
trations illus-
these
that
notes pictorial
represent
sense
actual
small
a
ornamentalised,
being
no
chapters,
as
upon
seen
from
be
decoration
in
AMATEURS.
former
looked
they
photographed
in
say
be
must
FOR
should
by side, and
arranged
apple
and
are
clearly
see
arrangement side
be
can
panels
may
in
the
pear
so
main
panels.
GESSO.
The. birds but
I have
looking,
it would
as
be
too
of
out
transcriptsof nature,
not
"
keeping
made
"
with
quaint
the
"
general
introduce
to
birds
are
slightly ornamentalised
are
scheme
introduced
M?
treated
quite
naturally amid
such
conventionalised
surroundings. middle
yet
The
panel is of
a
ornamental
more
character,
so
foil
to
as
those
act
as
on
either side. I had
a
of
sort
some
to
lilyin
my
mind
drew
this,and
the
when
I even
ornamental
base
suggested by
was
lily bulb, object was
but
in
with, in
contrast
the
design
to
something
mony har-
and
yet the
to,
foliage panels, varietyor
for
is
contrast
essential in any
planned
a
wellNo.
scheme
99.
"
Panel
of
founded with
the upon bird. quaint
flower, Sun-
decoration. In made
designing
the
subservient
instance,might
be
to
the
twisted
and
pear
panels
decorator's
wishes.
apple
into
any
shape,
is
nature
A and
stem, one
only^ for does
148
ART
tell
not
the
untruth
an
of the
growth
adhered
CRAFTS
of
The
much
very
the
colour
could
backgrounds
getting it lightertowards such
No.
as
100.
oak
from
of the
ought
to
and
effect,and
give
a
or
The
colouring must
unless
bottom,
tintingin
but
plan
to
a
good
an
not
the
even
be
that result.
good
in transparent
on
then
colouringthe
In
a
blues, wood
good
could
oak
Scroll Design, suitable for decoration frame, suggested by Italian cinque-cento work.
nature,
therefore
much
thought of
agreeable
harmonious
as
of
be
a
painting
reliefs,and
manner
scheme
for
:
strictly
been
Continuous
"
frieze
Stained.
the
used,
be
has
nature
floated
be
done
I have
as
simplified.
for
gesso
off the
wiping
fruit
and
leaves
panels rely upon dodge
by twistingthem
though
to,
AMATEURS,
FOR
of
is
colour
essential.
most
.
A
Diaper
like
that
effective in gesso. but
the
sort
of
gesso
outline
suggested in
The
could
might
moths
be be
used
put
need to
No.
97
could
be
raised
not
emphasise
around
the
them.
be
made
all over, Thus
insects, and
a
the
GESSO,
ornamentation gesso,
No.
of
also
as
the
"
all
wings
ornament
on
cculd the
be
suggested
background.
I
over
rose
reason
should why stencilling
design.
Gesso
would
stencil
be
not
in
a
resorted
blobby
to
manner,
tl:e
by
in
no
sec
on Repeating Diaper Design, founded Certain such as features, (Rosa rugosa). Japanese flower and leaf-stalks base of and bracts at tally calyx, are ornamendeveloped.
loi.
An
the
149
the the
such
which
a
CRAFTS
ART
ISO
would
yield some
FOR
accidental
happy
The
moths
four
wings separately; see ornamentation
The
suggested by
was
of
made
to
make
a
the
dulci.
and
yellow, helped
its art
here
the
in
be
furniture
be
was
to
with
utile
of
tones
gilding.
mth
could
idea
"
could
out
making
value
The
98,
sixteenth
the actual
coal-box
decorated
century
of
The
decoration.
colouring
The
furniture
Museum.
stool
No.
Coal-box,
or
costly, as
the
upon
combination
sixteenth
of
be
not
depend
and
brown
Venetian
by cuttingthe
XII.
Stool
Kensington
article need
the
the
coloured.
when
stencils
as
Chapter
on
some
century in South
effects
treated
easilybe
could
AMATEURS.
A
would
study
here
be
helpful. The the
of
Panel
spiritas
same
arranged
to
(or drawing of
the
suit the
conditions
the
sunflower, No.
treat
is
and
to
same
succeed
flat. than
actuallyin relief,and gesso
instead
could
be gold,
as
blues
with
and
varnish.
leaves
in
within
one's
of
It
over-ambitious
by
or
the
to
bird
in with
give
capacity,and
a
be
can
pale quiet greens
to
still more
to
; but not
to
attempt Gesso
The
peacock
tones
too
little
can
can
by
be be the
background
blue, mixed
of blue, and
it is better
attempt
eye
to
colours, such
transparent
in
too
effected
be
can
deep
way as
the
painting.
elaborate
"
flat
difficult than
nearer
modelling
"
decoration,
fail.
and
forms
these
floated
greens, The
as
This
more
is,therefore, better
all
littleforeshortening
perspective,and
form, is much
be
helpful here,
very
in
draw
foliageis is about
that
necessarilygood
not
foreshortened
the
and
shape decorated,
in much
The
96.
perspective)is attempted.
in
think, but
paint a
No.
observed, except that very
treatingnature
some
in
panels
is conceived
99,
to
much.
keep
the well
Where
tion
whicli
to
with
meet
such
the
than
ironclad
when
man
tubes,
goes
galley to
from
be
about
in
is
old of
rendering
strike
us
of
make
such
but
at
present
pulpit that
was
in
motifs, do but
9,
age
through
Chapter II., now
if you modern
some
to
or
ship. Always
a
from
back
turn
an
and inspiration,
work
not
in
City church
a
portraitof of
The
prefera galleon
we
in No.
fountain-head
more
is shot
or
we
reason
objects.
one
The
the
motif
flyingmachines,
so
much
so
as
good decorative
a
ram.
them,
I think
decoration.
they
and
pretend,"
can
contemporary
a
the
to
use
or
carved
a
first-hand to
may
monitor
a
destroyed,and
elect
in
present
telegrams,
are
as
is taken
work
is that
used
motifsare
modern
go
modern
no
AMATEURS.
FOR
quaint ships
pleasing
a
CRAFTS.
ART
152
contemporary
examples. decoration
The
capital
way
thought
I
of
so
I
design, No.
of gesso.
the
The
"
can
cup
fill out the
as
in the
"
the
'Uhrown somewhat
leaves
so
some
might
fitted for
confused
varied
be
head
left. on
A
paper,
than
The
decorated. of
"scroll-work,"
modelled be
design,
in
the gesso it.
put in in gesso,
than
while
the to
leaves
not
The while
which
this feature
in
by giving prominence other
parts
design, therefore, which need
of
possible
as
just heightened with
each
objects,
displaying the qualities
give prominence
of the
parts or
as
such
a
be
might
decoration
the
of effect is obtained
Breadth
away,"
the
rather
to
as
for
be
pronounced
more
it
to
space
which
fruits,again,can be
more
to
be
can
it were,
space,
design. to
is well
obviously
so
time, that
better
under
comes
reason
accented
berries
objects
100,
for that
and
"
thought it
indicatingthe
one's
given
is
gesso
adapt designs
to
easy
frames, that in
have
to
in
frame
a
employing
ought
it is
but
of
are
looks
necessarily be
so
GESSO.
carried
when
the
all-over
No.
loi,
the
No.
the
F.
Lynn
disappear.
design might
as
and
which be
hciuic
I
high or
think, largely
colouring. Gerald
in
outlined
than
Messrs.
wild-rose^
wrought
are
would,
by
is merely
at base
the bracts
Executed Moira
and';Other
adapted, and
of leaves
developed ornamentally. has
to
be
repeated
employed, together
leaves, flowers stems
j^iaoi.^.i,
Restaurant
to
its reduction, very
to
little more
leaves
again nature
Here
upon
fibruu"
we
and
Jenkins.
features,such dwelt
in
Trocadero
the
upon
berries
and
this confusion
gesso,
i03.-^Panel for
and
stems
with
accented
founded
afraid,owing
am
if the flowers
But
confused.
the way
applieswith particularforce
remark
looks, I
simplifyit by
can
we
repeating design
which
relief,and
size,as
This
it.
reproduce
full
out
53
and
berries
details could
might be
In
work be
flower-stalks,
carryingout
a
times, stencillirg
many
with
and
certain
by
band.
stencilled, while
painted
on.
The
the
ART
154
The
panels in
and
executed The
FOR
by
is made
of
glue, gelatine, boiled of
be
moist,
of the
some
nothing
as
be
oil, and
with
done
the
designed
decoration in very
soaked
frame-makers
plasterof Paris, and
mortar,
for
composition.
can
Church,
ot
Hall ward.
whiting
linseed
making it,most
worker
Teddington
moulders
by
reproductions
are
93,
Reginald
Mr. used
picture frames
in
pulpit
a
material
trouble
AMATEURS.
figure-panels, No.
two
three
CRAFTS
resin.
To
would
sell
it when
diluted
glue is
diluted the
save
would-
a
used
while
it dries.
Fine
be
It must
of
another
sition compo-
used. The and
Panels, Nos.
Jenkins,
"3ecoration
of
the
Trocadero
for the the
and
modelling. in gesso,
wrought
clay,which
is then
plaster of Paris mixed tow,
that
so
the
treated
porousness
;
apart the
from
-were
ness
to
it
it
were
colour as
of the
a
good work
in
ivory
colour
the
plaster gives
wanting time
of
a
on
and
quality ta
plasterpanel
in relief
solid
varnigh
take
the
be The
material
to
is choice This
colour
is,
its
away
colour, in
itself,
ivory surface which
is
plaster is
receive
to
in
suchas
plaster,and The
it.
to
would
of be
it takes, therefore, far less
and
canvas,
This
be
not
design
the
position.
which
surface
could
substance
capital state
a
applied
it would
in
fix
size
models
fibrous
some
to
scale
sible respon-
Jenkins
Lynn
plaster.
is far less than
with
it is then
kind
a
with
easier
afterwards
having
in fibrous
weight
therefore,much
Jenkins
Mr.
being
Mr.
the
originalis
The
large
a
for
executed
Moira
Gerald
on
so
cast
those
colouring and
Works
and
of
Moira
Messrs.
restaurant.
plaster,Mr.
cartoon
by
are
103,
portions
are
in fibrous
wrought
for
and
and
92
than
to
paint
lacking
in the
same
holds
one,
and
even
sculpturesque-
good
of gesso
GESSO.
this
and
makes in
painting
as
is
quite
in
unison, of
of
effect
No.
103.
and
practice,
mould,
has
for Miss
E.
M.
been
in
design
would
as
the
plaster than
has
material.
Such on
sort
the of
a
design
other "
as
hand,
blobby
"
No.
shows
what
perhaps,
better
in
and
that
the
of
Such
than
and
gesso,
much
more
in
closer
be
can
Mr.
grain.
George
satisfactorily in
most
floated
on
very
thinly
plaster. Mr.
eminently
quality
well,
colours
IV., might
plaster up
putation re-
gesso.
o;" colour.
and
work
some
a
a
won
effect
worked
is harder colours
a
where
has
Chapter
help
tooled
got
and
plaster and
the
colour
is
who
49,
executed
to
artist
It
training
advantage.
panel.
Transparent
being employed
an
in
seen
once
taken,
be
in
Paris
bition Exhi-
professional
a
having
relief,both
which
gesso, of
is
is
much
employ
without
be
can
plaster
Frampton this
come,
can
this
gesso.
relief
low
a
Ordinary
in
wrought
obtained
easily
Rope's
coration de-
The
Paris
late
requiring
can
another
in
work
work
painter
painted
course,
castings
is
Bell
his
Of
repeated
the
is
it
before
work. of
be
to
Anning
Mr.
have
their
Jenkins
and
and
task
a
craftsmen.
operation
an
in
sculptors usually
number
any
design
and
do
to
caster
is
Casting
Moira
quite delightful.
building
these
panel
a
exacting
so
sculptor
is
O.
by
out
not
Messrs.
the
as
and
it
of
"blend"
P.
carried
was
Hues
the
the
work
The
own
and
of
colouring
oils.
their
on
The
the
155
I have
Webb's,
Stephen suited before
to
gesso,
spoken
No.
having about.
117, that
CHAPTER
FRETWORK:
IX.
ITS
POSSIBILITIES
AND
DEVELOPMENTS.
HE
exceedingly jejune of the the
firms
Fretwork
who
there
"
pipe-rack,
and
other
certainlyappear is not
its
put in the
hands
band-saw
The
by
of
means
a
considerable most
many
the
material
a
frame
shapes
spaces
so
hand
to
may be
The be cut
are
to or
treadle, is made
rapidity.
intricate of the
the
in
stretched
either with
of
fretwork
us
uses
by wearing
parts removed
is worked
ordinaryphoto-frame,
various
what
produced
portions of
some
claim ex-
there this what
see
it
can
or
cutting
be
craftsman.
a
form
a
in relief. a
of
to
schoolboys."
itself. Let
of fretwork
possibilities ; to
fret is
away,
fault
readers
in the craft,but possibilities
small
be
necessarilythe
really are
A
to
will
amateurs,
fit for
only
articles
"fancy"
by
in fretwork, possibilities
no
the lines of the
On
for
many
are
it is
and
designs offered
cater
induce
doubtless
acter trivial char-
and
to
away,
leave
usually
other
cut
tions por-
by
away
that
keep it perfectlytaut, fixed
in
work
saw
cut
to
as
away,
out
a
up
machine, which, and
being
very
with
ease,
it is necessary
with
down
the
narrow,
and
to to
reach
start
by
FRETWORK.
gimbleting The upper
end
reach
those be
otherwise old
sist con-
in
but
they
pattern
the
if The
was
tirely en-
produced
by
portions
cut
though
away,
are
are
seen.
ever
fretwork
the
seldom,
now
of
form
famiUar
cannot
better
and
pianos
which
and
it to
enable
to
de-
geometrical
newer
hole
the
that
mj^\T
elaborate
signs,
very
the
passed.
piano-
fronts,which of
A
at.
got
be
can
saw
it were,
in, as
shut
spaces
the
readilyadjustable, so
be
passed through
be
may
which
through
therefore, must
saw,
the
hole
a
157
casionally oc-
the oval had
centre
a
moulding glued to
it
bring
to
on
it
forward. No.
Such
works
these
may
termed
pure
cannot
be
hope of
to
may
one
of various
shaped
Flowers
slightlyconventionalised.
frets, and
I
though
considerablymodified
portions not What
Diaper
"
be
show
design
104.
as
later on, be
mucli
may
do and be
not
see
why
developed, done, and
fretwork
as
great
obtained, by merely cutting away
I
shall
variety those
required. feels
about
so
many
fretwork
designs in
the
ART
1.58
CRAFTS
is their
market
Hke
the
uninterestingness. They
commonplace
like the
geometricallydull
either
AMATEURS,
FOR
photo-frames,
piano-fronts,or
the
designs I
the
invention
no
made
have
to
less character-
geometrical designs
The
admirably adapted, technically,to craft,but they showed
are
requirements of
the
of idea.
In
freshness
or
were
illustrate these I
which
(and
notes
therefore,
am,
perforceobligedta allude
have
to), I
endeavoured
get
away,
as
my
to
will
ego from
allow,
the
designs,and
stock
though
readers
my
not
may
to
care
attempt
of
any
they
them,
may
thinking
them
set
far
so
and
impulse
them
to
efforts
in
somewhat
newer
direction. No.
105.
"
Scroll
Diaper to
service
craftsman.
any
a
track the
to
by good what
copy
and
reader.
it is in this To
call
may
be
have
another
this
is, after
the
most
there, but
one's
spiritthat
all
or
any
hand
mind
by to
of them
get
own
useful
going
started
I offer my
all,
perform
can
receives
one
is
And
tinued con-
space.
drawn
direction, to
new
;
fit any
The
is not
museum
in
designs
which
a
to
for a
impulse
an
on
a
fresh
efforts
originalwould
to
be
i6o
ART
of.
Take
simple
the
fret
CRAFTS
FOR
diaper, No,
flower
consisting of
touching
each
togedier,
the
other, for less
AMATEURS.
forms the
is liability
Here
104.
flowers
suggested by
more
there
to
"
tie
"
we
have
we
the
just
design Small
breakage. isolated
a
forms
are
easilysnapped
very
in
off",even
the
but
cutting,
we
protect
them
by
making
all
jecting pro-
portions each
touch wherever The
other
possible. ties varie-
endless
of flower-forms could fret
make
diaper
-
varied be
and
would
for Chair-back
and
Arm.
shapes,
but
so,
continued
and
ad
the
is lib.,
scroll an
design, No.
105,
illustration of this.
"
disposed.
which one
who
out
being
If
t
ofmyreaders
so
geometrical in feelingwithout
be
can
this
1 will leave
work
to are
One
design
of various
those
Design
a
of leaves
idea
"
I
making
companion
108.
very
ingenuity.
started
No.
a
good exercise
a
in
such
tionally conven-
could were
be
filling
ibi
FRETWORK,
a
with
definite space
first to
placed agreeably,add
idea of the
The 107,
suggested by
was
had
who
them
effective
So
friend's that
have have
at
the
suggested
curtain
a
door
the
fretwork to
must
not
interfere with
The
the
opens
the
reverse
Unless
design
bold
finickingone
is
low
opening
of the
would
essential,as be
would
the
way,
too
over-door
an
be
inside
and
so
as
door. In
the
occupy
a
tulipsuggested the design.
position
small
"
a
"
quite out
of
from
ground.
\
ing keepNo.
such
at
worth
studying
a
fret
some
glued and
coloured The
the in
on
to
Inventories
from
designs.
with
decoration
ground,
trical Geome-
adapted Keltic
connection
a
"
fillings
be
would
way,
109.
the
is in the
nature
fret afterwards
being
gilded.
chairback, No. ten
the
"occidental"
Much
fretwork. of
height
diapers,by
Eastern well
a
friend
I
as
may
hung.
come
a
can
edge
which
be
may
of
the idea
an
below
house
and
io6
my
over-door
upon
pattern.
character)
pass
top, with
are
design.
in
The
placed old china, while the fret
in the
saw
own
do better than
shelf
a
her
Oriental
was
readers.
my
I
a
were
Hnes
over-door, Nos.
they (thedesign in
were
case
planning and
two
to
out
cut
I cannot to
on
in
window
over-
these
then, when
details,for constructive
the
first consideration
always the
advisable
be
pattern, it would
a
chief scrolls,and
the
arrange
such
years
ago
108
by
Exhibition,
suggested by
was "
The
Century
designed, M
I
one
exhibited
Guild,"
at
believe, by
the Mr.
162
ARTS
AND
CRAFTS
FOR
AMATEURS.
Y.as^m% w:^^"^
g
^
"B ti
msk^idA
"So
o
a
in
1)
"
O
"!1
.o
-p;
o
M
.Id "u
^vl
ir^n^u. ,o
\^^m
tu
FRETWORK.
McMurdo.
It struck
for the
Builder
which
to
appearance
of
The
may
design
of my
find
at
but
a
such
a
work
fret
passing
the
be
be different in
in cut
to
effective.
can
get
109,
are
in
are
greatly add
it would with
Kensington great
love
most
intricate
the
"
it would
feature.
try and
of the
It
would
be
straps
these
Keltic
two
lost,
designs is exercise
good
a
a
ing develop-
combinations
fresh
evolve
be If
"
effect of
effect will be
of these
nature
straps
the
to
perfectlylegitimate way. frets much
"
of,
which difficulty
no
and
overcome
from
chisel,the
flat
a
involve
over
if you
taken
where
shown
I have
simple
It
good plain
a
South
the
not
tion addi-
an
but specially,
ingenuityfin evolving
would
is
arm
a
and
their distinctive
though
early designers evinced
a
as
ornament,
price.
which
of
the
together.
very
made
give
to
seen
it. The look
wrote
capitaluse
a
as
are
pure
trade, you
reasonable
This
under
ingenuity
the
slightlylower,
to
under.
"
chairs
patterns.
fretwork
as
have to
little practicecould
designs
it would
under, and
and
over
go
I think
casts
These
"
I drew
very
crosses,
strap
when
to
considerable
and
chairs
the
No. geometrical fillings,
two
Museum.
"
mind
chairmaker
chair made
Keltic
are
might
one
be considered
almost
necessary a
The
Each
put.
when
oneness
own,
be out
be
article I
an
chairbacks
time, that
may
in my
lilywas
would
turning over
on
yet, with certain general traits,so
and "detail,
a
the
at
fretwork
me
163
in
in this
direction. It is sometimes and
again
point. It and much
in
is
a
design. plant
will continue in the
necessary
future
The
which be
to as
to
in
grape
fulfils all
employed
it has
the
use
been
a
plants again
same
No.
no
is
a
case
in
designer'srequirements,
for decorative
in
the
past.
purposes The
as
trellis
[64
ARTS
AND
CRAFTS
FOR
AMATEURS.
t65
FRETWORK,
work
gives character
show
more
white. a
well
as
floral
the distinctly At
an
he
artist's clutter.
No.
to
The
112.
these
"
Design
It
for sides
lattices would
be
portion might
grape
lattices, say of mahogany, front, or no
if the
why
reason
leaves
in
design the
green,
be
grape
the
I
filled with
had
upright lattices,forming other
portion I
artist friend's house
which
recess
stems
a
very
be
cut
might cut
out
for
to
suggested by
the
of
out
brown,
to
a
be
grapes
fret
room.
then
the
the
back
piece,then not
a
Peacock.
pine, and
one
and
add
feature in
glued on
all in
and
canvasses
that
me
portion should in
trellis
top portion of
the
attractive
be
left the
to
shelves, occupied with
to
of Portfolio
designs,and
have
saw
receptacle
occurred
a
the
supports
as
I
or
see
stained, the in
purple.
1
66
ART
CRAFTS
FOR
Transparent oil-colours,such burnt
sienna, Vandyke
madder you
No.
below
carried
be
out
Prussian
brown, down
get liquidstains.
can
should
I
brown, thinned
as
AMATEURS.
a
turpentine,would design
as
"
It would
be
enough
merely
Stand
or
one
than
with
112.
colour
to
do,
rather
closing Portfolio Design for opening and 113. which is seen in No. fretwork the detail of sides,
it.
and
this grape
size, above
fullynatural
sienna,
raw
vermilion
gamboge,
with
Such
blue,
the
bars,
leaving the design plain. A and
portfoliostand such The
a
design stem,
might
be
the
wild
as
as
will
be
composed rose.
No.
fret-cut
of two in,
noticed, is
would
made
be a
sides, able. suit-
distinct
i68
shown here to
ART
CRAFTS
I
consider
what
that
me
some
design
Hnes.
A
given
in No.
T13.
No.
115.
design
A
picturesque
together screwed so
as
panel
three on
to
to
check
based
is introduced
is
for the
the
fire-screen
frets laid what
is cut
might
be
by
fretwork to
take
the
heat.
I
have
to
sunflovver.
give strength
sheet
a
occurs
wrought
portfoho
In
have
the
on
is also
ends
the
away.
made A or
by hingeing fillet might be
sheets
of
glass,
suggested, in Fig. 114,
Here and
I
it
and
be
on.
panels.
margin,
the
for the
stand
the
on
peacock,
designs might
with
produced
four
or
original design
on
ornamented
Cabinet
"
AMATEURS.
most
effective
very
these
the
is based
It
attempted.
FOR
again character
the to
a
lattice work the
design.
T69
FRETWORK,
sketching the design this
In
floral part is
finallydecided
worked
in
effectivelywith
No.
will show
Ill
that
is influenced
the
design you
floral part
fashion.
clumsy the
the
the
can
by
carver's
part or
might
of and
put
of
the
out
wood
the
back
fretwork.
is
There
why
of
stained,
be
at
some
no
reason
amount
No.
carving should to
that in
white
of
not
fretwork.
very
in
effective and
originalwork
Japan,
and
procurable at
lines
Fretwork.
in
given by
are
be
they can
also art
carved
dainty it to some
carved
the
TrinityCollege,Oxford,
and
are
of
Many
Japanese introduce
cutter
Bird
"
The a
gouge,
omitted.
be
The
from
116.
but
done
a
floral
the
different
a
off in
cut
tool.
lattice got
the
it will be
the
done
be
again
Here
making
flowers,
which a
flower), sun-
the
and
details of the
the
as
if in
and
to
after arbitrarily,
lattice in
parts of
some
reference
A
design (as well
lattice work,
be
may
cated indi-
veining
leaves
lattice.
grape
the
forms
the
flower, sun-
have
I
that
the
before
In
of
panel
so
the
the
simply put
indicated
be
upon,
the
by
is drawn,
should
fret-cut
are
is.
study
some
It
well
would
of
as
as
carved.
cabinets,
help
of these
of their books
booksellers
as
into their
fretwork
such
screens,
the fret
carved
frets
design, which
like Batsford's
in Holborn.
CRAFTS
ART
170
The
carved
fret could
cabinet.
It need
but
be
could
down
cut
out,
being on
No.
dark
one.
Another
use
a
panel, markings on
of
tation shelves
a
are
cabinet, got
the
most
of
the
the
seen,
cases,
The
two
is the
ornamental a
in and
the
sides
must
it is
by
Japanese
the \hQ
The
water.
No.
side
ornamen-
tool.
carsnng
the
by
laid down
put
way
In
up.
the fretwork and
shown
usual
will be
as
other
cutting out
have
of course,
design is produced.
plan
given with
are
I
article is fixed
pattern is formed, whereas, in
as
of
background iish
in the
out
together; though, before
with
The
115. cabinet be
put
fret-cut
indicated
portions
cut
the away,
portion leftthat
frequently adopt
and design itself,
laid
fret
a
"
wood,
be
frets may
the
it is
a
carving,
pure
recommend
white
of
panel
a
piece of
what
even
lightor
to
on
a
as
be
to
I would
which
to
Fish
II-."
shown
of
say
down
masquerade
not
panel.
a
AMATEURS,
glued
be
frankly
upon
FOR
it would
be
the
this
good
FRETWORK,
'Lir
WflCiAN No.
ii8.
"
^Portion
of
pierced Kensington a
/icerttorv and
carved
Museum.
doorway
in South
ART
172
practiceto grape,
and
being
left
To
make
be
and It
obtained should
then
such
that is be
of the poorest
much
work
purposes
that
to
novels
what
neither
worker
it
nor
is "
fretwork
thought for
needs
what
two
are
strength.
such
to
do
In
poor of
one
think),ladies' fancy
I
stitches taken else
force
uses
applied and
interest.
to
than
tive effec-
some
to
is directed
work
in sketch.
his full
out
might
effect
to
be
can
male
forced
of
most
and
wants,
that
"
produce
to
much
to
conclusion
this
preparationof
shelves
photo-frames
anyone
a
of the
indicate
put
in
innumerable
impression
only
labour
craft to
apply with equal
in possibilities
that
of
of, say,
good
to
{Felix Ho/t,
as
edges
one's
itself ceases
work
the
the
engage
is described
more
or
out
that indicated
as
craftsman
work
the
rose
instead
out
got
are
very
a
employ
which
the
the
My
the
to
on
I endeavour
amateurs
would
frets
that
me
why
to
uses
Eliot's
during
The
put ; pipe-racks and
littleto encourage
remark
the
say
if cut
come
treatment
a
always try
can
George
would
glued to
seems
by
end, and
So
design,
some
cabinet.
the
to
sides.
fretwork
they
AMATEURS,
negatives.
as
return
One
FOR
positivesof how
see
^-inch wood, and
CRAFTS
the craft to be
work. handime
upon
there
are
many
of,and
dream
us
this
capable of
siderable con-
development. Animal
forms
silhouettes. but
The
of this form
Japanese prevents
space
of fret.
In
background
is formed
of the
plumage
but
bird's
in order
attitude
that
should
be
the
cut
my
of can
fret
out
fretwork
the
as
be
displaysas
as
tively, effec-
original examples
The
tracery.
engraved
itself shall
very
bird itself is left and
ornamental be
if treated
flying birds
giving any ii6
No.
chosen
in
rendered
be
can
as
I have
details
indicated,
effective,such much
of
the
the
an
bird's
FRETWORK,
form
possible.
as
but
In
the
form
panel,
details
silhouette
is not
only
be
teristic charac-
No.
of
the
the
fish is
the
of
mere
the
as interesting
as
bird, and
fore, there-
needs,
assistingwith The
is
of birds
will
certainly require
engraving, for
not
treatment
Japanese designs
to
mental. highly orna-
fish
the
117,
reference
A
their
helpful,as
very
^n
ing. carv-
background
ornamental
an
dering ren-
of water. I
spoke just
carving
of
now
applied
as
fretwork, and
I
cannot
illustrate the
better
(No.
118)
of
ject sub-
than
small
reproducing a
pierceddoorway
by tion por-
carved
a
to
and
of Norwegian
workmanship, cast
is in South
of which
Kensington The
effect
work
is
a
Museum.
of
this
old
intricate,but
exceedingly rich, and, without
slavishlycopy-
No.
119."
Door
Panels, in South
Museum, mg
It,
some
good
work
of the
of
sixteenth
French
sington Ken-
"strap"
century.
suggestions fantastic
be
and
Chinese
of
panels,
a
No.
of
cast
excellent
an
Door
added.
with
way
lines
of
frets
"
obtained
glued
be
there
is
one
adapted a
fertility mirror
A
four
of
It
carving,
but
with
suggested
much
carving in
ornamented
well
door
museum.
fret-cutting
them,
to
"
work
look
on
could
Kensington
by
would
is
given
strap
integral
an
effective.
be
South
crosses
skill.
decorative
have
in
is
be
panels
doorway
would
I
119
which
could
beasts
add
entwined,
form
they
heraldic
great
example
effect
the
which
The
Keltic
the
ingeniously
most
Norwegian
these
on
of
it.
foliage
ornamental
some
of
and
evinces
example
The
In
of
study
a
the
ornament,
this
which
treated
frame
the
In
resource
into
creatures
dragons
fretwork.
for
of
with
wrought
from
work.
snake-like
seen
part.
the
to
AMATEURS.
derived
wrought
interest
may
FOR
be
may creatures
great
is
CRAFTS
ART
"74
this
this
by
stout
work. block
The
the
door, It
this
be
is
made
was
of
one
hardly
work,
besides
adapted
for
a
series
necessary those
fret
from
in
sold
to
say
given
-cutting.
of
photograph
a
the
museum.
that in
of
whole
the
this
many
other
chapter,
designs could
in
easily
ART
76
CRAFTS
needlework
I rank
everyday
life.
It
very be
can
high
No.
120.
threads
(Chiswick
pleasing to
the
rich, soft and to
much
be
more
School
and
senses,
varied
a
dyed
palette,there
other
than
than
this.
a
fabric
on
comes
it
can
old
an
is
most
work.
Handicrafts.)
wools is
no
silks
and
for
excuse
pleasing harmony, Colour
adorn
qualityobtained
woven
modelled and
of Art
as
The
upon
that
arts
in colour, and
work.
Embroidery
of
Example
"
the
among
beautiful
so
as hardly_help being delightful
by stitchingcoloured
AMATEURS.
FOR
before
and
yield a work needle-
it may
design, for
be if
NEEDLEWORK,
design
best
the
in scheme
inharmonious
coloured
badly
"
it is of far less worth
"
and
harsh
than
a
poor
which
design
in
colour
plays
proper
role.
there is
is
made
ever
177
its But
reason
no
why design should wedded
be
not
to
fine colour.
is it that
Why
work, needle-
old
most
the
even
schoolgirl
s a
which
piers
-
folk
latelytaken
have
collect,is
to
m
more
the
pleasing than of
work
to-day?
Speaking off-hand, I
should
the
older
that
say
workers
wholly
were
in
cerned con-
skilfully
carryingout with
a
sign de-
their
ing needle, and, havbut
limited of
art
a
No.
Back
12
of Chasuble,
border
A
good this example
very
could
be
17 th
Century.
adapted
from
knowledge in
general, kept
by attempting too needlewomen
was
much
well :
within to
show
enough for them, N
bounds, that
and
they
did were
not
fail
clever
178
CRAFTS
ART
Our
possibly paint and
have
more
is
knowledge
infinitely greater
from
appliances
in the
resources
yet, equipped thus
well,
adequate
the
No.
result
122.
"
than
Linen
(Messrs. J.
much
being buried worker's
resources
are
mental wants
the
in
our
qualitiesthat the
imagination
play,
give to
be
is
we
Where
developed,
brought into
so
Bedspread, repeating design. " Sons.)
fact
materials. are
less
Harris
restrictedly.The
more
far
a
worked
who
needlewomen
many
fabrics, and
produce
often
too
we
older
Embroidered
and
command
at
better,
plant form,
about
wools, silks,and
of
way
draw
can
we
;
much
know
nature,
more
many
AMATEURS.
FOR
us
these and it
and
the
and
her
in
limited
are
fancy
is, after
and not
see
the
in
of
danger
and
the genuity in-
all, these
interestingwork.
touched,
individualityof the.worker,
are
the
appearance
One work
of
NEEDLEWORK.
having
been
This
fancy shop.
Yet
reproduce. work
century every
much
way
removed
from
I have
linen.
a
series of scrolls
wave-like in
grow,
No.
that
123.
bear
"
childish
Border
adapted
rude
a
skipping over child
good,
might and
harmony
the do
of needlework
by by
our
of
from
sixteenth
any
age
always
have
may
have
is doubtless
been
the
who answer
see
it,and is that
art," but is simply
a
if
one
it makes
piece of
far
of
flowers
work.
with
well
as
the
as
old
a
all
are
them
This
the
animals
crewels
counterpanes
the
piece
worked
universallyadmired
pretence
needlework
At
drawn
mellowed
is
which
plant.
analyses why no
are
from
-century German
pleasant.
of the
one
in
in crewels
for stems,
about
colours
show
unsophistication
individual
the animals hills, The
yet
leaves, fruits and
great-great-grandmothers, and
those
think
doing duty
to
them.
sixteenth-
sense.
representationof ground,
though
must
paintings they
and
in its
rude
way,
resemblance
no
is
bottom
quite
a
the
old, worked
century
a
design is almost
The
Exhibition,which
works, modern
the
some
modern
Spanish pavilionwould
pictorialin
coverlet, about
a
at
the
magnificent
beautiful
more
the
like
the
at
in the
shown
in
late
look
to
as
the
at
glance
a
bought
copy
strikinglyshown
was
wrought skilfully
so
on
printed
a
Tapestries,exhibited
French are
from
wrought
179
to
this is be
so
"school
in nice- coloured
I
i8o
ART
crewels.
CRAFTS
AMATEURS.
FOR
like the
archaicness, naievte,
Its very
peoples, is
charm,
great
a
in
and
tive primi-
of
art
self-conscious,
a
analyticalage
form
any
?^"consciousness
of
is
refreshing. of
Some
in
seen
are
No.
of
have
we
I
archaicness
tioned, men-
looked
and,
being
Conventional
124."
Sprig,
sixteenth-centurywork.
yet
made
to
evolve
It will be the
in
those
which
that
crafts,especiallyin if
us
think
other
naivete, the the
those
greater effort had
much
No.
121,
an
am
done
needle, for
been
qualities,character, of
to
means
work
less traditional
pattern,
as
some
form
must
individuality^
Such
end.
possiblySicilian
We
need.
prettinesswe
stitches
the
nice-coloured
with
and
century, is astonishinglyrich in effect. or
ample ex-
in prettiness
of
opponent
of the
that
all the
adaptation
Chasuble,
I
cunningly
threads, will give of
this
high-classdesign.
a
gathered
themselves,
a
;
many
say
prefer
would to
coherence
dare
I
and
panel wanting
logical
in
from
curves
feeble
very
the whole No.
the
design,
at
weak
it is very critically, in
pears ap-
piece of
old
Here
the
ample ex-
tion reproduc-
a
an
work.
the
20, which
1
be
to
ties quali-
these
a
work
of the It is
as
teenth seven-
a
more
of this decorated
i8]
NEEDLEWORK,
is
scroll
rich and
the
hinted curious
exhibit
would
stem,
individual in
whereas
had
both
from
nature
note
books.
made
a
a
careful
make
mediate im-
it
of
from
apt
to
be
been
how
a
much
serious
far natural
I
am
from
in all ture, na-
125.
aware
brought
of
position dis-
studying
time
of
nature
their
is the
work.
same
to
as
study
use
but
reference
rein,
Having
to
for
have
their
in
plant there
one's
from
removed
in
much
them
find
consideration
in
often
use
too
fancy
would
have
work.
wavy
much
are
to
the
on
feel unfettered
been
her
and
stitchingthe
who
Those
plant form
studies
have would
the
to
used
draw
disposed
direct
more
cramping
herself
us
be
should
embroidery.
they
this
to
brings
forms
a
so
would
fancy
her
and
growing
being
worker
individualitywould
play,and
handicap This
been
there
the worker's less into
design
the
colouring
the
in nature,
forms
in
stitchingand
details
all the
for
colouring them,
skill in
her
originalis barely
worker,
fruit
and
flowers
ornamental
period,and
of that
of the
The
reproduction.
in the
at
work
colouring
varied
very
in the
with
constantlymet
I
at
am
all
too
my
own
far
too
the
"
Conventional
sixteenth
-century
Fruit, work.
well
experiences
as
naturalesque in
a
designer,that
one's
work,
and
one
is
instead
[82
of
ART
making
a
the
FOR
AMATEURS.
design,drawing patterns
modifying plant using
CRAFTS
form.
It
is the
suggestions received
is
one
ingenuity we
from
Wt/j^K/K^k
display of
study
a
plant
the v/ay
and
^^i^^
only slightly
^
what
form
adapt
we
learned
have
we
in
^
from
sketching
by
that
nature
show
we
ourselves
capable
craftsmen. Here
study
a
is very beneficial
old work as
corrective,
a
but
not
The
reproduction
imitate.
to
old
examples
the
way
moreover,
is
great
the
is
there
in
who
made
needlework, Simple well-known
well-planned ego. woodcuts
from
He
owed in
nature,
of much
to
Gerarde's because
Herbal
the
nature
a
good
past, for
rather
than
they suggested
a
get
of
construction, plus to
trived con-
on
flowers.
scheme
for
designs
many
appliques, based
the
spirit.William
Morris,
"
ing be-
wanting
letter, yet
126.
of
chance
faithful
No.
not
reproduction
in the
ot
advance,
to
and, a
ot
he
a
with deal used
sketches
certain
tion suggesa
of the
direct
quaint-
i84
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CRAFTS
FOR
AMATEURS.
.2 D
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s o
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[85
NEEDLEWORK.
display
cunning, or of the
else
brush
129.
much
so
should
are
to
be
Where
covered a
and
curtain
inappropriate to by
not
stitches
always bear
being
seen
xor
ratio
some
applique.
use
which
to
generally seen
work as
effect
hand-
our
what
a
touch
The
the surface
to
main
forms
only
suggested by stitching.
the is
to
and
better?
Flying Birds, adapted
"
material
our
over
why employ
does
design
The
No.
command
our
on
a
it
whole.
a
the
in
design I
work folds
that
is
to
be
it would
would
be
put. be
spoilt
believe, too, in producing
i86
CRAFTS
ART
the
maximum is
do
than
No.
T30.
"
was
the
Fish
Forms,
only
the
produce
or
spent upon covers
be
a
the
linen it.
effect
yields a Here
a
any
for forms
a
time
need
things we
excellent
in
effect
for
repeatingdesign if the
important. material
It must
so
to
avoided,
crewels
well-planneddesign which
is very
is
is what
coarse
to
want
and
ago,
time
not
wasting it.
for
excuse
the
Of
highly wrought
century
embroidery very
time.
of
applique. All detail being indicated.
possible in
Outline
ground
half
even
essential
never
a
purposes
time, more
our
adapted
the
dictates. Zeitgeist flannel
on
case
best
is
there
calls
more
are
expenditure
for certain
and
considered, though
There
the
nothing againstproducing
piece of needlework, be
for
of effect
there
course
AMATEURS.
FOR
the
the on
time
agreeably of
is considerable
necessity in area,
NEEDLEWORK,
and
those
skilful
not
might try adapting their purpose than
put
of
colour
be
taken
; but
on
will a
to
invent
wall-paperor it takes
much
one
cretonne
longer
for themselves
design to to
do
a
suit
stitch
must
care
keep
design simple than
as
enough
touch
a
to
a
[87
the
rather
This
elaborate.
leaving out
mean
in
the
take
to
deal
good
design
you
adapt. The
sign, repeating deNo.
1 2
2, is of the
wall-paperorder,and the
covers
ground
pleasantly. The
very forms
highlyornamental,
are
though feel
they
we
based
are
plant form.
on
Applique. I that
have
idea
an
applique
is
sufficientlyused needlework
country ;
in on
not
in this
tinent the Con-
it plays an
important part
all-
in the
No.
131."
Butterflies
craft.
It is astonish-
and
Moths
materials applique. be figuredones. The
might
in used
l88
CRAFTS
ART
ingly effective strength the
and
"powdered"
cheap-looking.
of
is
a
union
be
lines
the
animal
dividing the
forms
in the
in Nos.
adapted
No.
necessityto
and
severe
for as
has
The
one.
the
might
leaves
for
greens
would
forms
be
to
one
out
be
of one's
should cut
no
the
over
figured silks
and
be
are
as
design.
limitations
of
use
applique
plants
appliques compels
one
plan," i.e.^
then
there
such
gives good results,
patterns the
forms
upon
of Keltic
distribute
"
way
good appliques
make
Strip Border
than
more
ornamental
forced
damask Even
do
and
large surface,and
a
Cutting
surface.
work
over
would
127
Interlaced
132."
powdering
for
and
One
the
well-known
Such
spaces.
the appliques
two.
work
into spaces,
surface
126
the
to
far from
about
play
between
covering wall-hangings would
materials
effect,and
should
at
other
or
of nice
out
cut
excellent
most
needlework
there
that
so
give a
The
Sprigs,animal
time.
of
and solidity
covering large surfaces
hangings
over
will
appliqued
it for
adapts
expenditure
smallest
forms
it that
there is a
it takes, and
for the time
about
AMATEURS.
FOR
and
tried.
be a
silk
in
the
of
damask. In
a
panel
the
at
Finnish
Court,
coloured
silks,so
the cut
Paris
Exhibition,
background out
as
to
composed
was
give
exhibited
the
of various
effect of water,
hills.
189.
NEEDLEWORK.
and
sky.
was
appliqued
this
Upon
worked,
and
artistic.
originaland
both
worked
Exhibition, Frau
the
flower
The
larkspur,or no
of
be
the
worked,
not
it would
confused
a
The
leaves
and applique'd,
of
coloured
the
found
of
the
design
and
over
the
larkspur, lost
and
itself in the
dehghtful
ferent dif-
blues
greens,
grasses
were
by having
background
into
have
only
produced
leaves
the
individual
but
were
working
pliqued ap-
"lumps,"
followed
outline,
going
so
striking.The
was
applique
the
flowers,
could
they
jumble.
most
fashion.
All No.
. .
the
the Woman's-
by massing
simplifyingthem
as
at
to
and
flowers
too,
nium, delphi-
racemes
effect
screen,
was
was
the
in
a
effect of the whole
the
was
one
easy
render, but
that
In
berries,
by
originality
shown.
and
ash with
Reutsch,
Helen
great
tree, the mountain
a
resources
of
,
the
Interlacing 133. Border of Keltic "
Strip design.
Work
ART
190
needleworker's was
as
the
art
to
No.
134.
It would
styleof all sorts
the
"
silk with the
screen
it
that many
of devices
above towards
into
135.
"
the
play.
keep
with
dyes
the
Painting
a
certain
seen
of
one
and the
on
work.
effect,and
used on
stitches
painting
Keltic
were
work.
rigidlyto
too
considerable
mentioned base.
Keltic
all kinds
suggested by
to
it gave
of
imagination.
the
I have
result
cutting up
The
effect,as
workers
the
and
play,
suggested by
bringing
Border
resorted
into
touched
Interlacing Border,
of
AMATEURS.
delightful.
was
which
whole
stitch instead
dyes
called
greatlyhelped
seem
No.
FOR
were
originalas
background
mystery
CRAFTS
a
on
woven
the
in
ground backfabric
CRAFTS
ART
[92
Animal and
forms
being
too
well in
come
AMATEURS.
in
severe
in Nos.
applique,and
suggestions are
some
130
FOR
Do
given.
128, 129
be
not
afraid
of
motifs,for appliques are
designing such
IHi
No.
137.
much
Intwining Animal Sth Century.
"
the fact that
they are lose
to
should The
is
be
birds
what
the
that
obtain
out
and
They
is
to
Insects cut
out
of
be
very
birds
form
in
as
lend may
be
No.
appliques are
shown
effort
istic natural-
lines of silk
as
the
all
:
act
to
common
of
themselves
In a
the
dark
hinted
upper
ground
at,
and
and flight,
better
in No.
dyed
half which
of
is
that
unmistakably.
seen
this
drawing, and
Fish than
130.
used, especiallyif they effectively
131. on
in
features
those
richly-colouredfigured
suggested in
with
sightof an
be
to
appHques
this is said
said, but
this treatment, can
in
only are
being naturallyquaint in animals
where
tendency
rudimentary
are
to
is left
is all that
All
lose
to
applied,than
edge.
T29
type retained.
the
hard
want
you
and
out
bible,
Durrow
strenuouslyresisted.
in No.
adventitious
cut
is made
attempt
no
the
From
for needlework.
Adapted
effective when
more
is made
Grotesques,
are
fabrics, as this
might
is
design the be worked
suggestiveof spiders'webs.
NEEDLEWORK.
Embroidery.
Keltic
extraordinaryingenuity displayed in
The
peculiarlysuitable
designs
makes
them
in
of the
embroidery
some
the
Industrial
Donegal
executed
Fund
of them
designs,many the
193
The
eighth century. is the
hi Nos.
132
and
worked
in
long
These
133.
stitches
threads
at
ground
gives
silk,and
used
brilliant
effect, and
right angles. fine
a
in
of
flax
Golden
crossed
is
Flax
intervals on
a
in
colour
as
by
dull red
glossy than
more
long parallelstitches produces varies
shown
effective
very
flax
of
Keltic
these
at
-coloured
harmony.
in
of
Bible
Durrow
look
and
of old
made
strap-work, as
patterns
of
Keltic
direction
was
feature
sort
a
use
old
needlework, the
in the
found
notable
of interlacing
patterns
under
excellent
be
to
for
the
rich
a
the
and
light plays
it.
over
variations
Endless which
are
shown
Another
form
can
in Nos.
Keltic
be 134
138.
We
hardly find
time
"
or
and
country, and
tiveness,as
well
as
parallel to
they
are
the
such so
these
is the
given in
are
Intwining Grotesques, from
any
on
lines,two
Durrow
interweaving of
Nos,
138.
Bible, 8th Century.
patterns
full of
and
137
in
any
decorative
being wonderfully ingenious in o
of
135.
designs take
grotesques, examples ofwhich
No.
evolved
other suggesthem-
ART
19+
selves,that on
effective.
linked
stitches. but
then
No.
139.
of
the
forms
the
It
in red
in
of
instead the
while
owl
The
either blue red
on
yellow
Burne-Jones
thread
on
in
canvas
140,
would
be
or
other
is
braiding
fish
139^
such
be
wrought
be
for
could worked
and
on
paper,
a
pattern
braiding
and
characteristic in
thread, and
be in
employed, bright red.
if
could
in red
stitchingor
material, or,
in
worked
is similar in character, and
braiding
very-
border, No.
but
;
stitches
blue
are
appliques.
in which fish
do
canvas
it could
border. No.
for
Border, embroideiy.
design might
of the
wrought
be
thread and
rest
138
Fish
or
dark
Worked
being given by braid,
designs
blue
and
braiding into
Conventionalised
braid
137
heed.
particularlyeffective
look
not
linen
On
effect.
Nos.
curves
the
turn
and
them
is that
and
scrolls
needlework
wrought
give
continuous
The
needlework
Highly
"
as
needlework
that
does
no
AMATEURS,
easilybe adapted
stitching.
example,
and
borders
could
class
with
an
such
They
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FOR
designers should
all
large scale
a
is
CRAFTS
on
and
frieze,in
flax. made
many
designs for figure subjectsto
be
NEEDLEWORK,
with
wrought needle,and of
the
frieze
one
considerable Ro-
length, "The of the
maunt
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Bell, is
Lothian
the finest spe
among cimens
of
rciodern
have
I
needlework The
seen.
scroll
and
ornament
by
William
The
whole
fabric it
sories acces-
designed
were
on
Mrs.
by
worked
Morris of
wrought
was
with
covered
was
stitches,which the
the
frieze
gave most
a
beautiful
but quality,
the time
occupied in
executing
it
have
very
been
must siderable. con-
with Still, such
beautiful de
a
sign to
ever work, what-
time
was
upon
it
ample
return.
spent
brought
an
Burne-
Jones, having drawn so
long
for
stained
No.
Border, to be Grotesque Owl wrought in braidingand needlework^ 140.
or
"
red and
blue
thread
on
canvub.
ART
196
FOR
peculiarlyfitted
glass, was
for it is absurd be
must
CRAFTS
imitate
to
in
drawn
for
for
designing
needlework,
picturesin embroidery.
certain
a
AMATEURS.
Figures
simple sculpturesque
the
for
them
adapt
in
be
must
flat
kept
though
as
full subdued
a
by
suitable
be
paintings
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for
adapted
more
shade
would
Botticelli's
of
those
Rubens'
than
any
reproduction
to
the needle.
as
seen
light,for
strong effect of lightand is not
and
needlework,
colouring
somewhat
to
way
work needlebrandt's Rem-
or
s
for instance. The
panel.
limitations
the
In
such
a
No.
141.
Needlework
"
Designed
by
Mrs.
Traquair.
this
well
might both
as
way,
by allowing
be
cut
silk and
out
both
of
wool,
one
various
by combining
a
panel
brought
this all the
as
into
might play;
very
employed to
in
play into
textiles, for
plain varied
and and
full
should
the
working.
the
other
the
as
appliques
figured materials subtle
well
applique, flax
and
silk,wool
while
say
advantage.
stitching, outline,
Panel
be In
with
of the craft
resources
be
should
I
background might
the
appliqued
be
work
would
extremely well. of
woman's needle-
the
of
craft,and
much
designed
141,
Traquair, recognises
Mrs.
by
No.
effect
of
could
NEEDLE
obtained.
be
could
be
all or
over
the
;
in
less
outline,
it would
be
flesh
tints
play
of
Another
all the
working outline. the
hair
throw
should
for
that
before
it of be
its suaviness
and
emphatic, simpler
details
prevents
strenuous
It wants
few
me
;
but
touching hints
worker
may
with
of
of
No.
this
141
brown, in
features
of
much
while
arrangement
revealed
on
in
be needle.
it
the
to
so
in
to
lines
vast
should
that
here, although
without
our
relieve
the
and
arrangement, is
is
Continent
in it
main
me
certain
a
"genteel"
savage
The
subject
further
too
the
striking
the
how
canvas,
effect, and
petty,
prettiness.
not
the
worked,
materials,
the
touch
the
the
dark
say
Exhibition
too
more
imitate
worsted
or
keeping
originality
a
the
relief.
Paris
are
keep
figure in
colour,
be
face
result.
a
the
A
a
shows
paint only
applique'd, and
of
We
England.
more
these
and
command
needlework.
could
be
the
to
boldness
workmanlike
to
linen
in
and
attempt
strong
figure into
the
outline,
keep
more
applique'.
an
such
wrought
kept
any
say
skin
be
and
in
to
a
be
Moore's
be
features
fairlysolid, while
visit
second
A
with
leopard
background
would
be
need
the
produce
to
employed,
forms
The
for
so,
would
scheme
outlining
outline
is
needle
material
the
of the
obtainable
easily
the
made
almost
flat,or
colour
could
97
needle.
could
drapery
to
Albert
the
only
background
be
enough
inadequate
in
the
or
should
deal, too,
good
and
drapery
flesh
the
figure panel
a
of
reproduction by
for
adapted
working
In
1
single figure subjects
The
well
WORK.
helpfulness
space I to
hope the
CHAPTER
FORMS
ANIMAL
XI.
of
their
were
exceeding
make
to or
This
head.
without
can
when
the human
the
work to
see
to
be
Art
artist,upon so
into
repugnance,
as
into
much
motifs in his
best
such
use
admirable other
illustrations
is
perfect mine
a
which as
work.
he to
the
can
human
to
of
draw,
of
on
to
to
be
our
and and
to
from
here have
us
decorative while
worth
I have
work.
drawings
chapter, because
wealth
sider con-
accessory.
Japanese
this
adaptation
taste, but
of
some
it may in
torso
designs,for
interest
forms
examples
work handi-
ornamental
an
forms, and
can
we
forms
animal
we
a
will pass
is made
form
introduce
fish,among
learn
feeling of
no
in
point
of animal
their
that
me
supreme
individual
the
argue
to
question of
varietyand
some
Eastern
a
nature's
contrary, it adds
how
chosen
to
introduction
there
is
weaving
seemed
pattern end
other
they
figure motifs into patterns.
always
degrading
or
I allow
staying
the
On
scroll
a
skilful in
and
It has
form
designs, and
arabesque
ornamental
were
human
the
introducing
into
it is
Renaissance
the
of
RAFTSMEN fond
ART.
DECORATIVE
IN
the which
treatment
of
this
decorative he
of
can
such
ART
200
to
what
a
they
animals
they
FOR
accurately,and
see
the
CRAFTS
They
see.
from
they
they draw,
creatures
The
with
unerring
have
mastered
they rather
than
bother
about
what
has
for it is
the
is under
record
they
this
developed
the
of
anatomy
which
with
faculty
of
of
all
making shapes things, and
ing employ-
little Chiaro-
but
the
osmro^
have
of
in fact ;
knowledge, the
cision pre-
shapes
shapes
as
about
precision
very
them
see
skill and the
trouble
or
observations
their
:
observation
question whether
skin.
record
they delineate
draw
AMATEURS,
Japanese
become
ing unerr-
draughtsmen. Take, for instance,
flying
their
instantaneous
birds
graphy photo-
only
has
proved the
how
Japs
accurate
in
are
143.
"
From
Japanese Print, by
a
and
Janko.
observation,
trained
of anatomy
wing
feathers
would
in the comes
teaches
leave
to
find in the best
outline movement.
will
do
of
out
the
entirely the
them
those
all that
who
set
No.
is
non-essential,and 142
for
have
of the
of great
appearance
which so
instance, that
everything in revealing form
Only
the
essayed
and to
draw
sult re-
ledge know-
thorough knowledge,
very
Japanese work.
The
intimate
most
taught
flying.
from
simplicityonly one
have
not
act
for
this
know
we
was
of
dering ren-
actions,
such No.
:
we
the
indicating animals
FORMS,
ANIMAL
in
sketch
of
No. From
nervous
life
from
movement
fish
a
144.
"
A
"With
by
the
Barn
outline, the
graphic waviness
appreciate at
its full value
great Japanese artist Hokousai.
Owl
Nature
can
201
this The
(by flash-light).By Cherry Kearton. and a Camera (Cassell" Co., Ltd.). "
verve
of
the
of the fins which
curve
indicate
of
the
that
body,
the
the
creature
ART
202
is
swimming,
Or take brush
Every and
the
No.
the
be
used. of
not
good
enough
word
be
selection
and
therefore
what
an
for
hand,
it in
treat
adaptation : leave
Those
who
sketches
you
have
you
it in crewels spare
make
teach
may
books, prints and despised, for Owl
Barn
to
one
omit
this
the
be
when
you with
in the
photograph
such
drawing
as
work a
from
depends
to
work
in
the you
but
enough, observe
Not
whose
to
upon No.
book rmu
seize
see
there
The
fact
that
looking
the
such
light and 142,
the
much
latter that
as
is
a
very
of
if
that
we
a
the
useful
and
upon
The what
compare
good
deal
shade, while is
no
at to
are
material.
photographs, for printwe
life.
ture particularcrea-
a
that
photo,
would if you
would
you
it than
what
Hokousai's,
of
to
sketch
excellent
Japanese
delineation
from
about
knowing
two
should
characteristic
in
the
mean
in these
glass.
photographs. a
what
good
and
in wood
fish
to
poor
craftsman, affords
snapshot
a
time
to
is
record
to as
a
what
made
painting it on
by Cherry Kearton,
comes difficulty
to
or
more
you
what
knowledge
way
either
should
secure,
you
carving a
different
can
select
your
deliberatelystopped
will
be
adapt
be
Decorative
you
should
often
pictorialcan
out, and
were
quite a
is too
us
dark
truly,but
word
abused
is essential,vital
you
if you
working
were
called
the
placing of
for insufficiency,
decorative.
thought
that
so
excuse
be
to
subject,and
easilyin stencilling.
much
with
or
to
specimen
excellent
the
decorative
Japanese prints,what the
this very
that
enough
is an
tion concentra-
masterly.
as
rendered
be
the
effective this is : decorative
how
reproach
to
drawing
rightplace ;
the
sense
The
term
could
is in
only
this
plain,and
by Janko, which
and
lightspaces,
AMATEURS.
left
large spaces
143
work
touch
in
FOR
detail all stamp
of the
of
CRAFTS
in
lightand
FORMS.
ANIMAL
have
spent much
and
the
enough
that
No.
what
145.
"
one
Trout
learn
to
sketch
a
poor
thumb-nail It
day.
the
I
moving objects.
self to
From
Swimming,
seemed
saved
be, has
train one's
must
sketching,
successful
one
it may
slight
practiceto
requiressome
yet
I
drawing.
pure
has
work
morning's
time, and
the
sketch, however
found
a
by
Zoological Gardens,
in the
time of many
result at
being obtained
effect
shade, the whole
203
is the
see
Study by
E.
shape
T.
F.
Bennett.
of
the
action of
the
in which
details
whereas
the
creature,
you
get
you
shape depending, of wish
head, feet,body, and
seize
upon
and
what
it.
draw
nothing down,
by learning to
general shape,
to
you
take
in the
other
will,after
is essential
and
If you so
creature
parts a
course,
come
the
upon
begin
to
think
bewildering as
a
in
as
is
shape,
then
part of the
little practice,be able characteristic
it,
and
make
to
ARI^
204
useful
very
notes
this way. chalk
yieldsan The
effect
birds
he
only
reptilesor
will
fish.
feel
Each
department it were,
become
to
what
wonderfully ornamental,
but
when
swimming at
was
about.
aquarium,
an
get anything down the
fish
before a
ever
I had
of
couple
data.
stuffed
sketches
from
work
shade
is
work
intimate
from
of her
forms
artists
constantly
refresh
nature,
and
who
those
direct
memory,
from
are
the
movement,
do, you
any
in
their
minds
familiar
with
useful
always
can
action
and
forms, and
simplifyyour
it
springs
and
is thus
artists have
they
rate
yet their
subject Their
after
endeavour.
because
the
sketch
some
main
to
highest sense.
by heart, at
nature
sketches,
of
to
you
the
excellent
so
watch
to
therefore, in your
of human
reach
I could
it
away
reveal
have
you
knowledge in the
learned
to
are
kind
the
However,
want,
you
record
necessary
bring it within
and
Japanese such
is to
nature,
limiting what
thus
by
What
of
before
colour
or
Fish
I started
bring
to
for details
specimens.
lightand
the
that
time
record.
to
to-
eye
difficult to sketch
I suppose
anything
in.
take
to
comes
kingdom
confusing was
so
move.
it
experience
some
hours, I managed
Remember
to
go
was
ing sketch-
requires the
to
first
can.
to
animal
the
white
former
latter
when
in
securing
the
used
somewhat
are
paper,
observed
of
it has
it
on
the
been
rather
or
My
and
the
on
has
for
as
paper,
quite strange
requires learning,as accustomed
if he
with
better
readilythan
that
animal
the
paper
be
to
v/hite
on
more
will find
student
found
pencil
much
so
brown
on
crayon have
than
AMATEURS,
mentally snap-shot
or
lights,I
sketches
FOR
you
:
Charcoal
for the
rapid
CRAFTS
can
repeat
best]work
by going a
from
pressioni im-
almost some
their
direct
to
Japanese artist's
objects delineated,
are
aware
ANIMAL
No.
146. "
A
Sparrow Dr.
FORMS,
Hawk" R.
W.
in p. 220 Shufeldt.
20S
"
Camera
Craft," by
206
ART
that
the
CRAFTS
outHne
in
a
full
light,which
iSo.
by working more
147.
so
"
From
much
trout
movement, in its
a
the
of
Print
though
simplicityand
by
an
an
to
than
we,
see
as
objects
shapes.
accurately observed
EngHshman
restraint.
always
shape, while
grown
is
work
So-Shiseki.
shade
lightand 145,
by
a
Westerns
we
Japs
subject as
Japanese
No.
what
The
indoors, have
swimming, and
do
to
effect.
to
shows
arrangements
as
The
shade
AMATEURS.
made
be
can
require light and
FOR
is
quite Japanesque
2o8
ART
Struck
in
placing their
this
lest
side
of
lies
outside
found
it
it in the
avoided, the
to
tyro
one's
work.
made
to
shall
to
go
difficult
very
history study
to
So
look
find
characteristics once
in the in
have
would
he
from
find
dwell
animal,
to
carving, features
left out,
take
extent, eccentric is
why
the
owl
this
any
made
so
and
forms
as
do
a
betraying it histories
much
of, and the
shall
we
the
carver
among
rator deco-
or
drawing
a
artist
for
if colour
John Dor)^ and
mental orna-
material, while
such
must,
too,
see
emphasised,
even
the
life gives character
laughing jackass
is
lesson, what
creature
the
sight of.
relief, the
in
are
indeed,
lost
wood
in
we critically
them
it were,
work
it is
as
wants
to
in
the
the
repousse,
ornamental has to
to
work
be
large
a
quaint
gurnard
birds,
to
in
is ornamental
that as
counsel
not
his material,
and
Developing,
place.
aspect of animal
such
all
patterning on its
carefully
most
I
decorative
patterns,
or
be
can
be
a
ot
appearance
natural
upon
The
develop
gesso,
the
sources,
as
be
"
often
too
will
something
in adapting difficulty
more
for
of
character;
studies
history.
look
subject
in using difficulty
no
and
upon
in
147
such
much
natural
a
the
consider
we
is dwelt
from
in
Japanese
and
142
artistic
without
source
are
to
creature
working
would
if
animal
more
the
that
wanting
be
of the
that, taking Nos.
and
a
pretty, but to
ignored
should
drawings
many
them
Turning
such
to
go
I
historyfor
natural
a
I
craft
reason
mention
design.
as
any
ment judg-
a
decoration, in
forms
and
taste
this branch
purpose,
it is for that
and
that
though
chapter on
natural
a
in
objects
present
my
is their
that
thought
art,
In'^using animal being
chief
be
might
Japanese
on
AMATEURS.
quality,and
another
by
FOR
CRAFTS
and
; that
in
rabbit
fish, and
FORMS,
ANIMAL
monkey
of the
art, because their
animals, are
among
adaptabilityto
use
and, by the
selects
what
praise
of
this
Eastern
art
of
^
by
Designed
by
a
warning.
Do
not
to
imitate
attempt
learnall
it ; can
you
Japanese but
sources,
work
on
your
lines
so
far No.
a
is
a
The
149."
good
form
Essex
Owl. An
Voysey.
be.
may
instance be
may
"
in
of how
decoration.
C.
F.
A.
rudimentary (Messrs.
Co.)
practise
to
drawing
in outline and
drawing by render
W
I in
plan
\
"
*^
;
said
It
can
better
up
have
as
Japanese
uses.
its
with
I had
own
or
in
environment
from
A
creatures,
is
it look
word
these
using,
best worth
keeping
I
way
what
follow
quaintness of
craftsman's
a
in decorative
with
met
it and
he renders
make
often
so
object,
any
but
natural
209
C. L.
form work
leave deliberately
Allport,No.
with littleelse but shows
how
far
148, shows
out
what
the outline. one p
knows
all details.
what
be done
can
This
The
kind one
to
is
of rudimentary
doing,
ART
for it is mass
of
not
FOR
CRAFTS
difficult
hide
to
detail,whereas,
given
AMATEURS.
one's in
under
shortcomings
abstract
as
it were,
little has
a
what
is
there be
to
not
far wrong, would
it
or
be
ingless. mean-
Before
introducing animal
fo
into a
r
cellent ex-
very
plan
four
much
out
one
in
each
until
sketch
get
you the
down
elements,
bed
Mr.
Voysey's
and Pomegranates by Walter^Crane.
Cockatoo.
signed De-
this
(Messrs. Jeffrey
is of
corative may
instincts,and
appear
to
be
to
is far from a
cursory
being observer.
the
easy
This
sort
abstracting
of
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149,
elemental,
and "
in
owls
are
150.
rock.
The
design,No.
No.
as
as
can
or
or
sketches^
leaving
to
to
three
make
m
design
a
it is
an
a
good one's
business method
test
de^ it ol
ANIMAL
making each be
several
sketches
by
one
leaving
practised
suggest
with
infinite
number
what
is
with,
is
this
be
shapes Mr.
of
added
all
Walter
elemental, and
is
shows
wings,
and
the
the
so
emphatic,
and
of
the
observed,
are
becomes
less
is, the
149,
of
quite
that
there
it is
just
naturalistic, Mr.
Voysey
the
design"
the
birds
them
fits
a
makes the
and
the
of
their
place forms
whether
repetition
his
owls
that
much
as
a
more
themselves,
repetition
the
present
the
owls
"
they for
question
bear
ing, draw-
blending that
so
is less
150
history
natural
a
scheme,
No.
as
a
we
result
tiresome.
between
owl
the
the
to
and
patterns
in
selection,
of
and
purview.
cockatoo from
elemental
illustrations
The
in
even
fabric
the
and
though
exacts.
his
removed
planning
wall-paper,
wall-paper part
far
shape
in
of
use
treatment
ornamental
an
within
an
dispensed
develope,
making
of
know,
selecting
of
be
can
should
faculty
comes
Crane's but
artist
the
that
what
to
require
us
faculty
same
rejecting
decorative
a
of
most
all
we
as
can,
said
is
spared,
be
who
This
simplifying
subject
can
what
effect. and
211
same
May,
strokes
to
what
the
what
Phil
few
a
of
out
Mr.
by
necessary
can
FORMS.
teach the
adapted is pretty
to
one
photographs a
wide
decorator's
interval.
lesson, from
at
any
life, say
and
rate, No
requirements,
144, as
in
that and No.
XII.
CHAPTER
STENCILLING.
Cutting
Designing.
and
is
TENCILLING methods
that
ornament amateur use
stencil
and
to
cut
out
surface
thick used these
obtain
portions with we
drawing lead
foil,and
latter have
will confine paper,
and
cleanly and of
glass.
is the
paper
be
ourselves with
then at
The
one
reason
best
cut to a
by
a
paper.
metal
for
of the
all
the illustrations
or
rub
to
paper,
flat
any
to
but
cut, of
out
your
zinc ;
pattern cut
knife, working
glass
have
I
professional cutter, Draw
the
over
ordinary work, good
cut
are
cuttingon
few
a
subject,
colour, upon
sharp-pointed knife
stroke
and
cut
to
with
only
material
stencils
many to
of
and
For
an
clear.
have
we
stencil.
lay the
may
the method
stifl"brush
a
as
of the
branches
perforated sheet
a
learn
in connection
taken
impression
an
both
on
make
plate is
quickly
to
stencil, I will brieflygive
a
which,
A
employed
both
soon
useful
most
surface, and
flat
can
hints
will,I trust,
be
can
a
of the
one
but we
so
the
on
through upon
is that
a
the
this
sheet knife
215
STENCILLING.
slides
if you
whereas
cut
purchase
coming
to
which
is
small
blade
have
for in
in
thing
excellent of
by
the
in
N0T51."
condition,
easilyand
knife to work
You
you
^^owhT
complicated patterns
and
cutting curves
the
provided
at
to
I
handle,
with, but
keep it
to
you
do
blade
a
wooden cut
will
penknife
a
shop
a
to
is apt
of cutting. difficulty fig-
tool
good
a
stroke,
one
knife
the
cardboard
the
to
with
cut
to
you
or
point, fixed
a
an
want
you
at
oilstone
an
wood
on
greatlyadds
catch, which can
enables
glass and
the
over
.
how'ties'
once.
have
'
to
.
"
Tx
cut
Havmg the kind can
be
used
varnish
of
had
piece of
at
brown
varnishing
No.
the When the
cut
the
other
the
152.
"
side.
Simple
brush
first coat
is
the every
the
is
This
knotting of
part the
in
If
the
knotting
letter.
you
absorbed
stencil
over
with
on
the
to
on
a
a
flat
stencil
runs
through
sprig.
it.
distribute
give it a second,
can
by
the
is
afterwards
sun,
butterfly and
surplus
left in
siich^^^
a
the
Lay
dry
quite dry
pretty well
give
to
Border,
Stencil
portions
first will be
that
it up
hang
Then
covered.
seeing
shop.
rub
and
paper
hog-hair brush,
oil
be
painters, and
house
by
good
any
you
to
"knotting."
of
coats
two
paper
pattern
your
""
need
paper.
as
The
CRAFTS
ART
214
knotting it
makes
the
also
waterproof, but
paper
tough.
far for
So
makes
only
not
AMATEURS.
FOR
cuttinga
stencil.
Now
No.
In
them.
designing
to
as
have
we
152
if we
simple design, and examine
No.
153.
Second
"
and
background butterfly used designs. for
pattern
in the
the
pattern
the
result
on
we
is
much
as
the
left uncut
as
cut
uncut
tions por-
it is These
ones.
parts
that
see
of
of the
Plate,
Stencil
it
a
are
called
ing follow-
two
"
"
ties
and
are
tegral in-
an
part of all stencil
patterns, for it is obvious letters,such not
leave
"
as
ties
B, "
to
P
that
and
O,
keep
the
if
we
could
the
cut
be
not
portions
alphabet,
produced
surrounded
some
did
by
we
the
^1'^
No.
loops 1
5 1,
154.
of the
we
see
stencil,and
"
Border, produced by embroidering
letters from how
it
"ties"
fallingout. must
be
Nos.
In the
A
and
diagram B,
left if B is to be made
follows, therefore, that
in
B.
No.
into
a
designing stencils
ART
2I5
No.
It will be
154.
varietyto
No.
157."
CRAFTS
the
noticed
but butterflies,
Feather
so
to
that
be to
stencilled effect this
operations:
first
AMATEURS,
that
a
pattern is also
it is obvious
that
cut
to
give
this would
Border, and
requiring plates 158 159 to produce it.
have
FOR
No.
afterthe design,No.
the
butterflies have 154,
it would
butterflies,second
158.
been
stencilled,
necessitate the
three
background,
STENCILLING,
third the colours
obtain
sprigsand pattern could
be
used
considerable
in
on
each
varietyof
2ir
butterflies.
operation colour
different
Of course, that
so
by having
could
we
stencil
two
the
plates to produce
complete
effect.
continuous
In
need
we
stencils follow
that
so
equal this
To
small
justa
cut
portion of the
the
repeat^ and
flower
of the
some
the
sprig
of
the
to
leaves
of
the
left
impression.
By placing this
over
impression just
the
stencilled
plate
every
time
exactly it has
shifted.
be
of
case
either corner
wing
would
guide
for
plate.
to
the
In
the
a
fit
can
you
the
or
the
they
at
on
distances.
say
as
us
placing of
the
end
thing some-
guide
to to
terns pat-
flies butter-
the
body
of act
the a
as
placing the
This
equally where
applies two
or
2i8
ART
plates
more
cut
in each
in
placing
flowers
CRAFTS
required to produce
are
plate some
and
two
stencils;
the
AMATEURS,
FOR
the
or
in
thus
of the
eye
forms
more
No.
fish act
You
pattern.
a
act
to
the
t6o
must
guides
as
of the
centre
guides in placing the
as
stencil-plates. variations
Other
156, for
only is
not
pattern is on
By
of the stencil
white
a
the
sprig omitted,
little dodging several
a
in the
and
ground
in Nos.
shown
are
variations
in
but
other of
dark
a
pattern
a
the
case
one
on
and
155
one.
be
may
obtained. feather
The
border, No.
of the
With
plates 158
skill and
itself
somewhat form
human
are
a
as
on
a
easily be
instances
plates
In No.
k
very
could
which
165
a
a
from
Japanese in
Nos.
translation
are
be
are
liquiddyes
or
it is not
to stencil-cutting
and
necessary, 161
and
162.
drawings, 163 and of forms
160 are
by
these
are
Birds
can
of
such
two
the
we
minent pro-
164, which
for stencil
wall-hanging is shown.
effective
oil-colour
insects
treat
insects
No.
In
fish and
easilyadapted
stencilled
very
figure
are
of
method
designs scattered through these
many
simple, a quaint ship
Stencillingis
human
question whether
in Nos.
scale
of the
stencilling. There pages
it is
duced pro-
introduced.
be
may
stencil,the
a
as
in which
adaptations being given good
colours
appropriatelytreated.
smaller
bination com-
be
can
But birds,fish,and stencil-plate.
a
Two
adapted
patterns
strain upon
repeating border, features.
shown
cut
severe
effective if
very
have
be
can
of the
result
159.
many
excepted, though
not
putting a the
form
any
and
quite elaborate
care
and by stencilling, Almost
is the
157,
on
and any
thinned
lines woven
with
cutting. The
suggesting fabric, and
design water.
either
spiritsof turpentine
STENCILLING.
used.
can
be
say
canvas,
In and
the
if the
case
of
219
dyes
transparent
the
fabric
be
must
oil colours, such
light,
as
'm
Prus-
''A
-\.
!i'S )i J((i"i'
4 ir
m
sian
blue,
employed,
raw
made
sienna, very
burnt
thin with
sienna
and
gamboge,
turpentine,they
must
be
also be
ART
220
used
on
then
the
CRAFTS
lightfabric.
a
colours
stencilled
makes
in front of
If
a
be
must
AMATEURS,
FOR
dark
or
opaque
excellent
textile be stencilled
coloured
nearly
coverings for
Stencillingcan
be
ing hangdust.
from
Stencils.
mixed
either in colours
done
for
and
walls
clothes-pegsto protect garments Using
thus
Canvas
so.
with
oil. In
or
is
that
former
the
it is
case
water
distemper
employed, /.^.y with
mixed
whiting
tinted
and
hot
size
with
powder colours,
such
at
oil
be
can
as
shop
good
any or
tor's. decoracolours
Some had
be
can
tained ob-
ground
in water. For
the
decoration
is stencilling
of walls
admirable, No.
163.
"
Flying Bird, adapted Japanese dra\^ang.
from
is
"
tooth
to
it,and
consequently than be
when
paper
and
then.
A
in oil.
In
that
wet, and
dry them frieze
sinks
colour
in
sharper impression can
in mind
borne
appear
a
the
it is
a
quickly by
running
round
very
good a
the
in distemper
it
lighterthan
much
plan
wall
colours
to
see
try them
how
under
they the
a
quickly;
obtained
be
fire to
dries
and
mixing distemper
they dry
easilyused, being
there "
temper dis-
as
must
they on
look
cornice
STENCILLING.
is
good
a
stencilled
in addition
wall
the
on
small
decorating it,and
of
way
221
patterns
powdered
"
the
over
be
can
wall,
it is termed.
as
in stencilling
In them be
to
The
sharp. the be
used
The
in
observed
the
the
brush
the
palette it
over
avoid
you
of
danger
the
spreading and
produ
so
cing
a
No.
blurred Be
very
get
too
colour
little colour
a
on
colour
if the
fill
not
distribute
the
neath under-
made
knocking
to
case
work
full,but by
too
brush
especiallythe
to
the purpose.
Do
and
impressions
get the
to
point
short
are
expresslyfor
taking
is
main
The
cream.
thinly.
too
hair and
them
colours, thinning
your
slighttendency
a
this is
platesand
up
thick
stencils
has
colour
brushes
in the
using
mix
must
consistency of
the
to
oil you
impression. careful much
not
164. "
Flying Bird, adapted Japanese drawing.
from
to
water
turpentinein
or
the
brushes, or
disaster
will follow. It is
possible to
gettingeach way on
a
to
the
slightlyvary
impression mechanically
effect this is to
palette and
little of the
the
colour
a
have
lot of in the
the
tints the
used
The
same.
tinting colours
white
brush,
also ; you and
instead
can
justdip
of
best
in batches then
take
it also in the
CRAFTS
ART
knock
white, then mix
them
before
the
brush
rubbing
AMATEURS.
FOR
over
a
few the
times
the
on
palette to this way
stencil-plate.In ^'
you
"
break
colour
the the
on
stencil and
the
is much
better
than
if you
used
the
always same
throughout.
colour
ling stencil-
It relieves
the
of
chanical me-
to
little
will
use
in this way.
colour A
fect ef-
practice make
soon
in
expert
anyone
varying
the
tints
iiifinitiim.
ad
the stencil
Hold
with
the
and
with
left hand the
right
keep knocking brush
on
working colour
the out
the
plate, the
in this way
rather
than
rubbing
it over
stencil.
This
by the ticularly par-
appliesto a
No.
165."
Arras
Wall
Hangings
in stencil.
freshly charged
brush,
for
when
CHAPTER
POKER
WORK
XIII.
ON
N
WOOD
the
Paris
shown
addition
colour
was
excellent
and
effect
obtained
by
Poker
work
Itself
better
Salon
just
The
alluded
of
class
background relief;
such
of
renderings these
pages
those
from
Forms
in
by
a
well
be
in
be
poker
animal
adapted
Japanese
given for
Decoration,"
outline,
and
the
as
for
the
in
the
here
we
what
legitimate oak
the
is
preferred.
forms
the
Vine
7,
the
or
the
in
No.
scattered
flat-
page
quaint through
particularly
chapter
detail
in
is where
work
purpose,
have
lends
colour
be
to
work,
forms
the
combination.
where is
and
was
example
leaving
instance,
other
and
could
well-defined
"
on
effects there
Animal
obtained is is of
an
character.
ornamental Poker
for
and
work,
very
and
wood
the
employed,
a
poker
to
away,
wrought
fish
the
suited
bnrnt
be
light
poker
the
pine,
on
a
best
pattern,
a
done
was
design can
could
16,
to
which
Perhaps
though
treatment,
combination
in
used
be
to
this
to
in
the
wood.
was
year
original
is
alone
ornament
last
drawers in
to
way
of was
most
effective
this
Salon chest
a
LEATHER.
ornamentation in
and
AND
work
is,
I
am
aware,
often
used
for
producing
WORK,
POKER
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from
seventeenth
^^
225
^^^^ Prince's
ship and
the
century vessels. Q
one
Restaurant, designed by in
next
illustration are
226
ART
the
effect
this
was
of
a
"
"
poker
a
then
of
decorative
what
a
for
such
could
be
Mr.
efforts
to
marked
any
kind
most
of the work,
Nos.
i66 and
spaces and be
aKid
is
nothing
in
the
oak I
examples
did
all
burnt
seen
By
a
apparatus
poker
admirable.
realise
:
what
the
cases
his sister in
by
quite
away
in which
sometimes
are
from
I2S.
one
to
and
taste
Until could
designs
the white
therefore
primitivean
Heating
arrangement
an
for any
with
simple,
were
one
with
case,
a
flat
the
attempted,
what
was
done
properly-contrived
heated
iron
on
satisfying. a
Pyrometers,
as
effect
done
great difficultieswere
no
point is kept
the
the
poker
seeing these
be
lilyin
naturallymeans
known i8s.
at,
chairs,
low
table, some
a
judgment
quitecraftsmanlike,and
was
hinted
adequately
not
but complicated pieces of foreshortening,
no
much
outline does-
only
are
all decorated
renderingsof plant form, background
a
as shapes telling light
that could
with
not
In
pyrometer.
the
for
sees
ship arrangements,
Shadows
I have
done
was
likely
often
feelingis
the
is
work
work.
cabinet
being
have
we
I cannot
one
in which
I conceive
house
work, and dark
though
and
good
a
success.
admirable
ground.
poker
hanging
a
be, and
My
effective
very
good example
very
towards
way
success,
Here
167.
friend's
a
should
in the two
as
dark
rendered In
yield a
to
panel is a
design, one
of
a
on
there
made
this direction.
in
made robust
more
i66, though
imitatingline engravings in poker
that
lead
to
No.
as
reproduction,and, skilfully
design
appropriatedesign is a long think
such
drawing
Brewer's
result ; but
AMATEURS.
FOR
pen
drawn
not
handled,
CRAFTS
and rod
by spirit.They be
purchased
in the
fire is too-
can
results satisfactory
to
be
obtained. Unless
one
is very
certain
of one's
touch, and
can
trust
POKER
No.
167." Sketch
of Panel
Mr.
WORK,
in Prince's
H.
C.
Brewer
Restaurant, designed
227
bv^
228
ART
oneself
design to that
be
wrought
outside and of
on
the
not
of the
scope
minute
part of the
relief where
all
them
on
other
and
leaving plain spaces.
of
lumps
of black, that
for
they
of
shape
are
in
work because than
have
oils,I
they
anything
panels in
museums,
is
full
of
such
leave some
to
designs the
out
finer
of the details
around
confuse
adding
some
the to
design, which it.
are
burnt
same
do
way
portions which help the
objects as
fine old
this
executed
this
designs in
myself.
chapter work
is
for
Materials
engravings and
or
capital
suggestiveof poker
more
in
also
167, it
models
scroll-like
foliage
desirable
be
indicatingshading, and
ships. should
is
The
be
white
omitted,
quite
full
and
carrying
anyone
would
such
with
frequentlymet
Were
the
teenth-century seven-
make
Brewer
Mr.
of his
bring out
to
heraldry would
treatment.
of the forms
two
or
afraid
do
the
one
be
pen-work of
and
not
two
i66
as
markings
other
the
opportunities,the
poker
characteristic
In
heraldry
decorative
itself
lending out
while
obtain
not
afraid
in old
found
be
can
cover
be
could
I
do
to
not
be
to
seem
plenty
be
indicated,but do
though
put
is
be
and
subjects for panels,and
nature
treated. similarly
are
midrib
The
Such
vessels
get
great mistake
a
and effective,
design.
the
let there
for their
is,those
very
to
be well defined
veining or
breadth.
of
of this
work
surface
puttingmuch
in mind
attempt
work, for you
with
important traits may
away,
It is
instance, go
for
to
the forms
Let
plain.
lose
so
that
minute
parts of the
avoid
shapes,but
and
pen,
the
make
to
doing this bear
in
complicated,and
wood
doing leaves,
Ill
a
craft.
or
left almost
spaces
every
not
hatching or
cross
too
is advisable
and
paper,
is
the pyrometer
the effect of
AMATEURS.
spontaneously,it
work
to
FOR
CRAFTS
to
also
line,too, left as
it tends
enough
to
without
POKER
valuable
Many
think,
could,
I
x\lbert
Durer's
WORK.
229
suggestions for be
obtained
engravings;
elaborate
from such
an
a
study one,
for
poker of
some
work
of
instance, as
CRAFTS
ART
230
heraldic
the
device
reproductionsof On
Hght
seen
the
none
flowers more
as
be
which
be
can
used
poker
work,
made
by rubbing
and
the
accidental
pigment
as
of
white
on
Colour
wood
water-
certainlybe
can
combination
in
effect
introduced
was
with be
interestingexperiments might
some
into
colour
which
of
some
with
surplus off
effects
colour
; for
stain.
a
elaborate
very
Cupids carrying festoons
considerable
with
take
were
I have
and
attempted,
leadingmotifs^and as
obtained.
be
now
can
can
effective.
less
stain than
a
introduced
then
work
Photographic
crowing.
cock
of his work
finer
the
were
colours
the
AMATEURS.
poker-work panels
some
and
with
most
wood
FOR
a
this way
before
far
lines,and
burnt
in
rag,
often
are
the
getting that
any
are
designedlydone. Such
design
a
is tail-piece,
a
work,
gives
background figuresand Thick
and
of
main
wiping leather most a
copy
carried
just as
off the
surplus. a
gave
harmonious of as
the
it
were.
rich
out
black the
a
the
to
the
result.
No
attempt
have
seen
oil
colour, and was
shadow
original
the
and
colour of
the
produced
made
a
translation
other
examples
only
positions. com-
tracing
a
yellow-brown
tone
I
on
of
of
executed
of
mass
colour
warm
pictures,but
Teniers'
made
you
rubbing
The
of
with
couple
a
pictureswere
where
then
me
two
though
suggested by
was
showed
lines of the
in, and
burnt
was
pictures
the
decorated effectively
be
can
had
pyrometer,
it
came
poker
sculpturesque quality to
picturesin outline, and
the
and
decided,
and
artist friend
an
he
The the
certain
a
leather
undyed
panels in which
with
few
are
for
quite the right way
details.
work,
poker
in
originallyas
drawn
i68, though
conceived
outlines
the
as
No.
as
to or
of
a
obtain phrase paraleather
ART
23*
decorated those be
of
surface
seen
leather
on
leather.
decorating
in
punched
some
the
Various
leave
for
169, itself
lend
and
would
colour
Purely
the
dual the
geometrical
effectively gilding
reproduced could
be
on
help
added.
the and
a
such
brown
patterns
beaten
as
these
I
himself.
must
Design would
scale,
being
figures
accessories
and
patterns with
the
to
larger
a
the
treatment,
greatly
or
was
light
but for
out
wrought
foliage
colour
work,
carry if
repoussed
was
themselves,
poker to
instance,
to
slightly,
little
reader
the
to
No.
and
lined out-
was
effect.
suggest
leather
of
employed
and
give
to
considerable
combinations
repousse
or
used
design
leather
cow-hide,
work
poker method
design
the The
of
were
with
cases
then
be
to
were
by
the
itself
lends
favourite
a
cases
front.
nature
be
to
some
and
the
Stains
colour.
in
and
from
of
invariably
appeared In
poker,
the
by
in
it
fact,
leather,
on
Exhibition
produced
effects
wood
on
cowhide
Paris
the
In
work
effects
essay
undyed
and
patterns,
poker
to
of
colour
admirable
in
;
tried
only
scheme.
most
some
ornamental
more
suggestion
and
decorative
a
with
have the
AMATEURS,
FOR
way
who
glad
the
as
up
this
in readers
will
to
CRAFTS
burnt
beaten
on.
A
could
be
design. arabesques
p3n-ometer,
and
then
colour
CHAPTER
XIV.
PAINTING
FOR
DECORATIVE
ROOMS
AND
FURNITURE.
S
concluding
a
subject
our
of
surfaces
in
By
decorative
does
exist
not
is the
and
but
piece
a
of
environment artist
the
might could
called
be
in
as
pictures
the
bring
work
made
designed
and
scheme.
No
various
forms
as
his to
but
restraint much
exhibited
attention
out
painted
due in
is
not
and
to
art, it
carrying paid
to
of
be
and
a
has
a
is out
drawn
paid the
put to
consist of
the
of work
general the
is not round
sarily neces-
all
so
which
the due
fitness, and
design,
decoration
upon
between
painting line
bear
but
in
an
cabinet,
a
not
place
its
Thus
to
;
by
put.
will
itself
for
surroundings
painted,
can
the
its
panels
it
its
keep
attention
exists
it is
be
picture
A
knowledge
to
which
conditioned
the
yet
line
because
because
paint
spaces
stencilling.
by
and
is
and
pictures,
hard-and-fast of
to
tion, decora-
painting
to
which
to
skill
much
fit the
idea,
an
ment treat-
considered
decorated.
decoration
upon
and
means
reference
purpose
carried
decorative
forms,
of
without
painted
and
relief
one
the
to
have
we
surface
the
expression
therefore
it
take
I
from
apart
individual
alone,
and
painting
"
outside
by painted
elsewhere
decoration
it
it
work
quite
devote
to
flat
for
this
to
considered
be
not
may
chapter
that
too
would
ART
234
destroy the "scheme.
humbler
find
AMATEURS,
the
in
place
a
passable cabinet
a
good exhibition,is
a
decorative
such
art give place handling requiredin pictorial
painted retable,
colour
and
the the
it
and
shade
is
in
necessary
all its delicate
too, is seen,
which
distance.
here, but were
the two
so
the artist of
of
No.
171,
has
and
character
which
is
effect
decides. of
play
a
of
There
designed
shade
a
overcome
and
Or
take
an
panels the
room
around
be
where the
of
decoration
the
the
at
tions condiparticular
attempt in
thought
there would
suggested.
of
no
play
viewed
into another
pleasingor is
as
under
given
figure singing
light and
ones
artist has
spaces
taste
be
portion the
Here
is
difficulties to be
melts
to
light
the subtle
effective when
subtle
plane
one
and
of lines
delicate
work
such
of
amount
sculpturesque quality,
realizinga figureseen
pianofortefront.
the
or
many
atmosphere
panels,
the
plenty of
are
where light,
sense
asserted
makes
There
not
certain
painted
the thorns
gradations,that
A
Then
picture.
not
be
would
than
certain
A
The
suggested.
cabinet
but give relief,
picture.
a
is severer
paintinga
to
Davis's
the
treated, and arbitrarily
employed
less
reproduction,though scheme
quite ornamental.
are
halftone, with
of
a
is
background
upon
artist
the
for
the
is broader, flatter and
at
were
case
colour
a
of
charm
in the
of
much
of
The
originalis barelyindicated effect aimed
a
Louis
170.
a
masterly
Take, for instance, Mr. No.
general arrangement
to
in
work,
definition and
subtle delicacyof perception,
exacting treatment.
whole
the
paintingthe panels
as
in
succeed
of
whereas, by working
simplerstyle,such could
harmony
paint
to
possessed by amateurs, and
the
upset
would
as
cabinet,many here
and
skill necessary
The
often
FOR
balance
picturesuch not
CRAFTS
a
ment arrange-
strongly
a
reverse
here
with
it, but
as
vidual indireaUse
to
all a
the
figure
PAINTING.
DECORATIVE
No.
170."
Painting on
Retable.
By is
a certain arranged to^fit
and
shade
the
Louis
All
Hallows
Church, Southwark.
Davis.
space,
subjectis viewed
235
and in
an
instead
of subtle
arbitrary way,
so
light that
236
ART
such
difficulties are
flat
and
manner
carrying out
in the face
and
obtain
to
such
relief.
vermilion
colour,
and
to
the
on
little
dry
with
stipplethe
put
Here, you to
see,
skill
more
decorative rather
panel : fail in
than
the
a
have
design
is
mapped
putting colours out
be
to
stencil could
small
work
our
in the
cut
out,
on
and
put
be
a
plan
give it a
In
as
a
always
a
paint
humbler
a
certain
good plan
quaint
to
In
as
make
kept a
shadows darker
a
pattern is
this way is
a
eff"ort
be
put in
colour
on
the
dry, and
the whole
unlike
not
deliberately map
instead
making
thus
by
be
fact, we
shape
positionit occupies,such
It is
much
to
colouring
the
this.
do
to
for difficulties,
The the
it.
do
to
and
it
when
on
map.
and realise it pictorially,
subjectwe
folds,should
the
and
paper,
hair could
The
one.
colour, say apple green.
same
would
in
a
this is
drapery put in flatly.The
the
and
sleeves, to render
tint of the dress
difficult
a
When
succeed
to
attempt
we
tint.
is necessary
than
knowledge
by adding
flesh demands
of
appearance
colour
made
lessen
to
nice
a
got the
"rigger"
a
ot
shadow
give
with carbon
lightred, using
as
tone
the
would
be
transferred
be
chin
reddish
have
flesh
the
to
adopt methods
we
and
golden brown, on
could
get the
to
attempt
black
and
with
in
could
shadow
tint,
of, say, white,
warm,
you
In
flat
a
the
flatlyand
on
when
kept
up
indeed, it
;
whole
The
lightred
put
badger
a
panel.
be
mixed
give a
to
be
put under
be
might
this could
the features
then
tint
A
shadow
much
so
yellow ochre,
and
stippledon texture
only
might
flesh
the
panels
an
with.
easilygrappled
more
a
considerablylessened
handling are
much
consequently are
with definitely
in all the forms
drawing
in
work
by treatingthe
and
avoided,
outline the difficulties of and
AMATEURS,
FOR
CRAFTS
of a
character
attemptingto of
pattern which
our
keeps
it
pianofortefront.
a
a
careful
drawing
of the
PAINTING.
DECORATIVE
design make
a
carried
be
to
tracingof it,so
the
actual
work
the
better.
171
The
"
two
H.
by
is
wish
to
size
squares,
size,then reduce
and
concerned.
simile
on
bring
if you
task
corresponding part getting a fac
then
to
drawing
easy
divide
You
paper
your
for the
then
the
as
work
hesitancy
or
direct
more
you
panels of the decoi aied part of a pianoforte, Theaker, Royal College of Art.
Thus,
a
bungling
no
easiest way
enlarge a design,the
necessary
dimensions.
To
G.
by "squaring."
half-inch the
end
.
If you
be
it
transfer
can
you
paintingis begun,
when
No.
should
There
progresses.
that
work, and
commencing
before
out
23/
your
want
paper
to
work
in the fill in
up
reverse
the
to
into
mark the
originalso
each
as
required the
squares.
It is
in this way far
squares
double
inch
way.
squares
design,and
of the
you
this
into, say,
up
enlarge it to
divided
be
of the
drawing
pattern
your
must
to
the
do
to
a
paratively com-
with you
its
insure
proportion is
238
ART
CRAFTS
FOR
symmetricalpatterns
In
in
paper
and
two
then
by rubbing
half
you
obtain
draw
the
have half
one
plainhalf
faint
a
you
AMATEURS.
fold
only to of the
in
design
of the paper
impression of it,and
pencil;
the drawn
to
on
piece of
a
get both
so
sides alike.
transferringa pattern
For **
pouncing
"
is the
easiest
to
be
repeated
method
adopt.
to
times
many
prick
You
4
i"
tl. ft
^
rxft^^
No.
over
the
172.
"
Decorative
design with
it is better
to
do
this
close
together,like
Some
crushed
leave
and an
needle
The
rubbed
over
piece of flannel,and side ;
reverse
needle
holes
perforation on
the
charcoal
a
C. Brewer.
H.
Mr.
upon
the
on
tracingpaper.
design on
muslin
a
Panel, by
powdered
or
the
impression behind
postage
chalk
can
make
should
put up
pricked pattern it which
so
be
or
your
fairly
be
stamps. in fine
pounce
outlined
will
with
a
ART
240
a
deal
good
this kind
have
to
of
CRAFTS
amateurs
gildingis
usually put size must This
should
before
taken
of
to
handling
it.
*'
gold
is the
be
colour
showing
a
up
press
well
looks
through the William St.
gold ground
colour
Morris,
in
fine
the
to
on
"
the "
a
paper
paper
gold the
over
that
gold-leaf "
transfer
it is put
upon
which
gold size, the gold This
transfer
gilded ground,
gold has
and
to
some
by using transparent gold,
the
of
some
the
tip."
produces
effect.
the
ordinary leaf,which a
a
and
is
the paper.
James's Palace, with
of the
on
the
varnish
gold-leaf require
the
to
sheet
obtainable
are
with
mixed
There
this
on
until you first,
make
tip."
board cardSome
greased,so
to
said, with
I have
effects
designed for a
"
manipulate than
Decoration beautiful
the
peel away
you
applied,as
effect.
take
and gold-leaf,
is easier to
to
the
out
has
just passed
grease
slightlyadheres
you
adhering when
enough
is
gold-leaf.
which
at
of
sheets
well
and
between,
wasted
their hair
u[)
the
for the purpose,
used
This
blowing away
gilderskeep
which
sold
be
If the
gilded with
gilders turn
pad,
is
by its edges
adhere
tip,"and
tip,"which
just takes
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leather
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Ordinary
be
to
practice
gold is applied,as
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little
decorator's.
a
the
a
decorative
a
muster.
pass
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the
with
up
hair; and
at
will doubtless
gold
cutting a specialknife is is taken
to
gold-leaffrom
the
keep
to
to
by
up
gold-leafon
of
sides
get used
nearly dry be
sheets
amount
before
in
a
surface
had
day
the
with
of
sadly.
so
platinum
enough
be
can
on
be
and
by covering the
gold size, which
bungle
helpful,and
this well
done
It is for the want
them.
amateurs
gold
very
do
can
of
AMATEURS.
of
that
knowledge
is often
scheme
the
known
introduction
The
FOR
used The
a
for
the
oil
metal
wonderfully rich
the
decorations
transparent colours grape
was
the
he on
motif
PAINTING.
DECORATIVE
the leaves
and
Indian
put
were
as
red,
fruit were
outlined
then, when
dry,
and
and
varnish.
thinlywith
on
the
241
in
a
solid
greens
Copal
colour, like
and
purples
is the best
to
use,
it dries very hard. A
word
No.
may
174.
"
here
be
said
as
By
Hans
St. Cecilia.
for decorative
purposes.
Where
is
buy pound
tubes
cheaper
these
are
to
thinned
with
a
the
to
Thoma,
much
mixing
in decorated
colour
of decorators'
little
of oil colours
is
frame.
requiredit
colours.
turpentine and
a
If
small
ART
242
CRAFTS
FOR
quantity of copal they Linseed
and
the
as
colours almost
dead,
There such
a
has
been
capitalway
should
will
allowance
in oil
done
the
varnish the
as
evenly,
is
business it.
This
it should
as
do
lumping
done
by
in
the
Use
parts,
colour
a
gives
it
as
bad.
look
tricky
succeed
amateurs
decoration
the
overdo
for professional, few
a
dries dead,
on
the
be
use
don't
colour
them
in
a
French-polishing,and
than
polishing.
the
by
due
should
better
that the
stood under-
painted,as
vehicle, but
a
be
decoration
cannot
you
be
to
The
made.
polishing over
might
expressly for decorating,
it is intended
restored
be
it is
as
labour, amateurs
French-polishedroughnesses polishingmust
The
made
avoid
and
afterwards.
in this direction.
advantage
an
If
turpentine only they dry
one's
using
varnish
brilliancyis
colours when
it is
dr}ing.
of
colours, and
as
in
avoided,
painted furniture,and
be
turpentineand
be
revival in
that
then
rule
longer
partiallypolished,and
the maker
by
fairlyquickly.
varnished
be
their attention
be
only
and
general
a
little can
furniture,if it be
The
hard
much
a
work
a
as
so
with
the
but
profitablyturn
little
then
are
thinned
are
dry
oil should
other
colours
will
AMATEURS,
at
fine
a
qualit}'. furniture
Painted a
white
ground
transparent case
the
Morris.
running
be
can
decoration
the
decoration
over
quiet greens
and
with
of
polished,and
a
covering
sienna. looked
in delicate
be
forms The
very
were
having
choice.
William
flowering tree The
surface.
whole
work
tones, and
designed by
was
conventionalised the
On
seeinga grand-piano
pinkish flowers,
the semi-transparently, in burnt
which
of
It consisted
can
I remember
used.
colours
decorated. effectively
most
was
put
thinlyand
lined previouslyout-
been then
Light
on
colours,
varnished
decoration
and on
a
DECORATIVE
dark
ground
comes
well.
corner
cupboard
I
in
saw
a
A
studio dull
painteda
was
sage green,
quite
dark, and
some
simple
patterns
light yellows
in
and
g olden
browns
were
painted
the
on
panels, and whole
.the
was
nished, var-
and
ed look-
particularly rich and
ious. harmon-
ing In varnish-
painted work require
you
broad
brush,
that
you
a
so
can
quicklycover
the
surface.
the
varnish well
Use
but freely,
it
brush
on
so
that
are
leftunvarnished. Do
holes
no
not touch
the varnish it has
set, and
when
begun keep
to
it
PAINTING.
243
ART
244
away
from
varnish
by
the
lightwork,
and
Picture
No.-
"
pint :
a
Detail
good
of Roof
originaldecorated
and
174,
are
The
worth
works
buy
your
drying varnish,white
hard
work, should
in north
aisle,Catholic Mrs.
be
for
used.
frames
by
Hans
studying,for they
festoons
of flowers
ApostolicChurch,
Traquair.
his opportunityof displaying
an
very
treatment.
large
frames, if properly designed,give the
Edinburgh.
decorator
For
drying.
for dark
darker
mirror
and
76.
:
while
dust
AMATEURS,
FOR
CRAFTS
are
in No.
talent.
The
Thoma,
Nos.
very 173
are
two
173
daring modelled
in
PAINTING.
DECORATIVE
upon very
work, and
florid Renaissance suitable for
\
using
on
it is
245
a
class
polished furniture.
of
The
design flowers
Vi
'm^m-.
5Tef^
No.
177.
"
Painted
Pilasters
by
Mr.
in the Prince's H.
C.
Brewer.
Restaurant.
Designed
246 themselves
artist has
ribbons.
used
been
to
these
In
for
gone
examples
paintinga pictureof surface.
Were
flowers in their the
a
light
and
whereas, wood
a
of
if
from
different
a
local
not
what
have
easier of We
is the
do
to
how
long panel.
No.
water,
as
well
themselves
by
group
of
a
the
and
atmosphere, play
of
distinctions;
polished or plain
a
approach
work
our
form
and
objectsthemselves
the
think
varying light,to
of
graspable and, therefore,
the
nearer
the
get much
176.
to
when
shape,
further
hitherto the
Brewer, which
Prince's
atmospheric
fairlyaccurate
vessels,having regard
examples
C.
is a
renderings of of the
some
and
shape vessels
seventeenth-
most
beautiful
built.
were
from
removed
considered
The
The
effect.
the
portion
Restaurant.
ships,is ornamentalised, line
of before
are
can
H.
subjectin
the
approaches
in
ships,a period
roof. No.
a
by only having
more
Mr.
scheme
as
being thought
much
on
decorate
subtle
the
nice
once
of
colour
is much
75,
1
decorative
the
at
we
decorator
a
of the
We
flowers
same
the
suggest
other
between
accomplishment.
see
century
to
endless
and
they change with
as
we
have
point of view, and
that
colour,
had
gesso
realize them
to
attempt
to
place
or
plane into another,
giltground,
or
garden
a
and
room
paint the
we
in
go
using flowers
and
should
one
shade,
panel
and
in
surroundingswe
melting
the
by
the difference
see
can
we
flowers
to
we
vase
174,
relief.
procure
two
and
though
as
groups
frame, No.
treatment,
severer
a
various
In the other
reproduction it looks
of the
appearance
AMATEURS.
painted fairlynaturally,the
are
being held togetherby the
FOR
CRAFTS
ART
in this
purely ornamental,
as
naturalism
chapter indicate
in the scheme
Paintingsimple ornamental
than
for
; a
patterns is very
good practicein learningto manipulate colour, and
the
tyro
248
ART
would
do
CRAFTS
well
patterns in No.
177,
176,
Illuminatingbooks decoration, and
from
the
of
know
copying
it,and
the
at
old
work
note
in
illumination,and
design
and
fancy
Inventing letteringis be worth
buy
a
if the in
the
book
of
"
itselfis lettering
more
PKINTED
the
beautiful
BY
H.
VIRTUE
not rest
AND
for
should
worth be
any
example
her ego into the
best
should, I think, be
the
delightfulopportunities letters
and
borders.
undertaking,and taking
and
page
LIMITED,
on
Vellum
than
CITY
is
spoilt
executed, and
decoration. work
it would
to illuminating
up
illuminated
designed
of the to
the
quite the spiritof
are
well
Ages, and
subject isn't
178, has put
An
COMPANY,
Museum,
Middle
there
of be
No.
those
painted
attention
Traquair,in
difficult
material
this
be
to
design can
British
initial
Alphabets."
of
Mrs.
there
expenditureto
proportion to
much
a
and
flatter
Brewer.
the
of the
colour
in
Mr.
form
secure
why
there is
Brilliant
has
roundness
the
reason
pages.
time
well.
as
in
of old work.
same
of
of colour
touching no
the
well
may
Renais^
The
difficult than
beautiful
very
appropriateart
of her illuminated
one
for
the
work.
designed by
missals
old
Still there is
knowing. slavish
sense
in the way
didn't
they
a
that
one
illuminatingwas what
the
is
Much
amateur.
learnt
more
are
as
such
at
this class of ornament,
given to
the
AMATEURS.
try his hand
to
No. pilasters,
sance
FOR
ROAD,
paper.
LONDON.
is
a