. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 106.—Design for Over-Door. to put oneself into what one does, to tinge what oneattempts with ones personality, one is original to the extentof the ego with which one hall-marks ones work. A glance at a piece of fretwork tells you that the designis largely conditioned by the craft. Great limitations are put. No. 107.—Design or Over-Window. upon one, and therefore, in attempting original work, themethod of reproduction must not for a moment be lost sight i6o ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. of. Take the flower diaper, No. 104. Here we have asimple fret consisting of forms
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 106.—Design for Over-Door. to put oneself into what one does, to tinge what oneattempts with ones personality, one is original to the extentof the ego with which one hall-marks ones work. A glance at a piece of fretwork tells you that the designis largely conditioned by the craft. Great limitations are put. No. 107.—Design or Over-Window. upon one, and therefore, in attempting original work, themethod of reproduction must not for a moment be lost sight i6o ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. of. Take the flower diaper, No. 104. Here we have asimple fret consisting of forms suggested by flowers justtouching each other, for the more we tie the designtogether, the less liability is there to breakage. Small isolated forms arevery easily snappedoff, even in thecutting, but weprotect them bymaking all pro-jecting portionstouch each otherwherever endless varie-ties of flower-formscould make such afret - diaper veryvaried and wouldbe a good exercisein ingenuity. I started making acompanion designof leaves of variousshapes, but thisidea 1 will leave t)those ofmyreadersto work out whoare so can be geometrical in feeling without being conven-tionally so, and the scroll design, No. 105, which could be•continued ad lib., is an illustration of this. If one were filling
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