. Art crafts for amateurs . in the cabinet figured in No. 47, which is madeentirely of wrought iron. It is admirably designed to showthe peculiar beauty of bent iron—the delightful curves andscrolls that can be fashioned when the iron is heated so thatit will bend readily. CHAPTER IV. CLAY MODELLING AND METAL WORK INRELIEF. was a tile and flower-pot pottery, I obtained some clayand modelled some articles, which I afterwards had burntinto terra cotta, and as many readers may be within reachof a kiln such as this, I will give them the results of myexperience, as some of them may like to try thei
. Art crafts for amateurs . in the cabinet figured in No. 47, which is madeentirely of wrought iron. It is admirably designed to showthe peculiar beauty of bent iron—the delightful curves andscrolls that can be fashioned when the iron is heated so thatit will bend readily. CHAPTER IV. CLAY MODELLING AND METAL WORK INRELIEF. was a tile and flower-pot pottery, I obtained some clayand modelled some articles, which I afterwards had burntinto terra cotta, and as many readers may be within reachof a kiln such as this, I will give them the results of myexperience, as some of them may like to try their hand atthis most interesting work. The use of a potters wheel is a matter requiring somepractice, easy as it is to use by those who have had anapprenticeship to it. The difficulty is to keep the clay onthe wheel while you pull it up and manipulate it into avase or other vessel. But the amateur need not wait untilhe can throw a pot; for a few pence you can get apotter to do this, and your work can be to decorate it with. 3ST boys love to play with clay andputty, and model objects, if onlycoffins and skeletons, in these yieldingmaterials. And boys of larger growthwill find clay modelling a very fas-cinating occupation. When staying ina village some years ago where there 72 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. work in relief. Or you can start with a drain-pipe as itcomes out of the press, and by pulling out the top—makingit thinner and bending it over, and then put a bottom to itwith feet, as shown in sketch No. 48, a very pleasant shape is obtained. Youcan then decoratethe surface withwork in low found it a goodplan to modelleaves, etc., andthen stick them onthe vase, carefullywetting the clay tomake them can, in fact,roll out your claythin, like dough,and take an actualleaf and shape theclay from it, or youcan build up yourdesign straightaway, using your No. made of Drain Pipe Oma- fin§erS t0 fashi°nmerited in Relief with the Biamble. it, for it is a goo
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