. Art crafts for amateurs . m. No. 87.—Design for inlaid Frame; the foliagean ornamental rendering of the yellowflag. Birds, like other animal forms, tobe suitable for inlays, must be greatlysimplified, only the bare facts bein^hinted at. The bottom design is given onnext page. imitating a woodcut, for I would ratherhave no engraving than too much. The Japanese, who are very skilfulinlayers, carve many of the objects inlow relief, and then let them in. Ithink it would be very little moretrouble, and would give variety to work,to have some few details in relief whilethe rest of the work is flat
. Art crafts for amateurs . m. No. 87.—Design for inlaid Frame; the foliagean ornamental rendering of the yellowflag. Birds, like other animal forms, tobe suitable for inlays, must be greatlysimplified, only the bare facts bein^hinted at. The bottom design is given onnext page. imitating a woodcut, for I would ratherhave no engraving than too much. The Japanese, who are very skilfulinlayers, carve many of the objects inlow relief, and then let them in. Ithink it would be very little moretrouble, and would give variety to work,to have some few details in relief whilethe rest of the work is flat. The berries,for instance, in No. 88 could be in slightrelief, as could the acorns in No. the work is to be French-polished,then the whole of the work must bekept flat, unless the worker couldtrust himself to gluing in the portionsin relief after the polishing is perfectly legitimateform of wood decoration, and one INLA YING. 127 comparatively easy to do, is to reproduce the design bystaining the wood. Much
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