. Art crafts for amateurs . mes a purely ornamentalfeature, take what we want, and leave out what we do notwant of the plant form selected as the basis of our design ;and accordingly as we do this with fitness, ingenuity,balance, suitability to method of reproduction, to thatextent shall we be successful. The amateur must remember that designing is not taking anatural form and reproducing it in a certain conventional I24 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. way, but is developing ideas suggested by nature, andcarrying them out harmoniously. The final result maybear so distant a resemblance to the natural
. Art crafts for amateurs . mes a purely ornamentalfeature, take what we want, and leave out what we do notwant of the plant form selected as the basis of our design ;and accordingly as we do this with fitness, ingenuity,balance, suitability to method of reproduction, to thatextent shall we be successful. The amateur must remember that designing is not taking anatural form and reproducing it in a certain conventional I24 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. way, but is developing ideas suggested by nature, andcarrying them out harmoniously. The final result maybear so distant a resemblance to the natural form as to berecognised only by ourselves. One might with advantageremember Rubinsteins aphorism that grapes are nature,but wine is art. Our design can bear the same relationshipto nature as champagne does to the grape, which is some-times a very distant one. As I shall give a brief descriptionof each design, we will pass on to the technical considera-tion of inlaying. Those amateurs taking up the craft would do well to get. No. 85.—Border formed of two repeating nsh-like forms; at the topand bottom are borders of waves. half-a-dozen lessons of a cabinet-maker used to inlaying;for in large firms some men are kept for nothing else,though most good cabinet - makers understand simpleinlaying. It is possible to obtain the most beautifulcoloured effects by inlaying, as we can use any material,from wood, in its infinite variety ot colours, to mother-of-pearl, ivory, and metals. I have seen some quaint effectsproduced by inlaying light oak with pewter, while somerefined and beautiful ones have been produced by usingengraved ivory, especially for the class of design seen inNo. 91, as details can be engraved on the ivory, and these INLA Y1NG. 125 engraved lines filled in with black. Where a design iscarried out in two or three woods of similar tones, sayyellow brown, variety can be given by using the wood ofthe inlays in various directions. A good deal of theseventeenth-century Dutch
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