. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 8.—These two fragments from the Pulpit in the no-longer-existing Church of St. Mildred, in the Poultry, London, arevery characteristic of the time. The carving is in considerablerelief, so that it can be undercut. The frame, which wasthe border to each panel, would make a very good picture-frame, as the design is admirably adapted to wood fruit festoons are met with in all work which has beenclassed as Grinling Gibbons. from the pulpit of St. Mildreds Church (now no more), and it. 20 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. I must be pardoned for referring to my own
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 8.—These two fragments from the Pulpit in the no-longer-existing Church of St. Mildred, in the Poultry, London, arevery characteristic of the time. The carving is in considerablerelief, so that it can be undercut. The frame, which wasthe border to each panel, would make a very good picture-frame, as the design is admirably adapted to wood fruit festoons are met with in all work which has beenclassed as Grinling Gibbons. from the pulpit of St. Mildreds Church (now no more), and it. 20 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. I must be pardoned for referring to my own work as adesigner, but illustrations in such a work being as importantas the letterpress, feeble as ones efforts may be, one can betterillustrate ones own ideas, than find them illustrated for I do not give them as showing the only way, butmerely one way of treating wood, leaving each reader totake and reject what he will. He can adapt me just as Iadapt material I come across. Wood carving has been sotrammelled by the past that few carvers have had the cou-rage to seek to get out of the groove of precedent. Thisbondage of the past is sadly hampering to anything likeoriginality. What we want now is work of to-day, the styleof the nineteenth century instead of thirteenth centuryGothic, Cinquecento, Francois I. and the rest of the Schools. In my Training of a Craftsman (H. Virtue andCompany, Limited, 1897), I have exalted the ego above alltradition and that adherence to precedent which so checksall origin
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