. Art crafts for amateurs . ometrically dull like the piano-fronts, or character-less like the photo-frames, The geometrical designs wereadmirably adapted, technically, to the requirements of thecraft, but they showed no invention or freshness of idea. Inthe designs I have made to illustrate these notes (and which I am, therefore,perforce obliged toallude to), I haveendeavoured toget away, so faras my ego willallow, from thestock designs, andthough my readersmay not care toattempt any ofthem, they mayset them thinkingand impulse themto efforts in asomewhat newer direction. AndNo. 105.—Scroll D
. Art crafts for amateurs . ometrically dull like the piano-fronts, or character-less like the photo-frames, The geometrical designs wereadmirably adapted, technically, to the requirements of thecraft, but they showed no invention or freshness of idea. Inthe designs I have made to illustrate these notes (and which I am, therefore,perforce obliged toallude to), I haveendeavoured toget away, so faras my ego willallow, from thestock designs, andthough my readersmay not care toattempt any ofthem, they mayset them thinkingand impulse themto efforts in asomewhat newer direction. AndNo. 105.—Scroll Diaper which may be con- . tinued to fit any space. this IS, after all, the most useful service designs drawn by another hand can perform forany craftsman. The good one receives by going to amuseum is not to copy what is there, but to get an impulsein a new direction, to have ones mind started on a freshtrack ; and it is in this spirit that I offer my own efforts tothe reader. To call all or any of them original would be. FRETWORK. i59 to claim too much. I am influenced by what I find aroundme just as I hope those I address are, and if one really tries
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