. Art crafts for amateurs . 125.—Conventional Fruit,sixteenth-century work. 182 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. of making a design, drawing patterns, one is only slightlymodifying plant form. It is the ingenuity we display inusing the suggestions received from a study of plant form and the way we adaptwhat we have learnedby sketching fromnature that we showourselves capablecraftsmen. Here a study otold work is very bene-ficial as a corrective,but not to reproduction otold examples is notVs\_|§ ^Z^\pp^ the way to advance, \\j _ir —4ft ^fTT^% an^ moreover> there is a great chance ofthe r
. Art crafts for amateurs . 125.—Conventional Fruit,sixteenth-century work. 182 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. of making a design, drawing patterns, one is only slightlymodifying plant form. It is the ingenuity we display inusing the suggestions received from a study of plant form and the way we adaptwhat we have learnedby sketching fromnature that we showourselves capablecraftsmen. Here a study otold work is very bene-ficial as a corrective,but not to reproduction otold examples is notVs\_|§ ^Z^\pp^ the way to advance, \\j _ir —4ft ^fTT^% an^ moreover> there is a great chance ofthe reproduction be-ing faithful in theletter, yet wantingin the spirit. WilliamMorris, who mademany designs forneedlework, con-trived to get a sugges-tion of nature with awell-planned scheme of construction, plus a good deal ofego. He owed much to the past, for he used thewoodcuts in -r Gerardes Herbal rather than sketches directfrom nature,, because they suggested a certain quaint-. No. 126.—Simple appliques, based onwell-known flowers. NEEDLEWORK, 183 ness and singularity. The old woodcutter had simplifiednature, and this saved Morris the trouble of so doing. The border, , and the sprigs,Nos. 124 and 125,areall adaptations ofGerman designs, andare given to showwhat excellent ma-terial is to oneshand in our mu-seums, and also howone can get a sug-gestion of nature andyet be far removedindeed from beingnaturalistic. The disposition topaint in stitches andimitate nature, evenwhen fairly success-ful, is only a tour deforce, and never canlead to any greatsuccess. Stitchesbear no resemblanceto the touches of abrush of colour. The stitches are in themselves such an interesting as well asintegral part of needlework that nothing should be done totake from them; on the contrary, we should work to
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