. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 12 r.—Back of Chasubie, 17cii good border could be adapted fromthis example 178 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Our knowledge is infinitely greater; we can draw better,possibly paint from nature, know much about plant form,and have many more appliances at command and manymore resources in the way of wools, silks, and fabrics, andyet, equipped thus well, we too often produce a far lessadequate result than the older needlewomen who worked so. No. 122.—Embroidered Linen Bedspread, repeating design.(Messrs. J. Harris & Sons.) much more restrictedly. The fact is w
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 12 r.—Back of Chasubie, 17cii good border could be adapted fromthis example 178 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Our knowledge is infinitely greater; we can draw better,possibly paint from nature, know much about plant form,and have many more appliances at command and manymore resources in the way of wools, silks, and fabrics, andyet, equipped thus well, we too often produce a far lessadequate result than the older needlewomen who worked so. No. 122.—Embroidered Linen Bedspread, repeating design.(Messrs. J. Harris & Sons.) much more restrictedly. The fact is we are in danger ofbeing buried in our materials. Where these are limited theworkers resources are developed, and her fancy and in-genuity are brought into play, and it is, after all, thesemental qualities that give us the interesting work. Onewants the imagination to be touched, and see in the workthe individuality of the worker, and not the appearance of NEEDLE WORK. 179 having been wrought from a printed copy bought at somefancy shop. This was strikingly shown in the modernFrench Tapestries, exhibited at the late Exhibition, whichare so skilfully wrought as to look like the paintings theyreproduce. Yet a glance at the magnificent sixteenth-century work shown in the Spanish pavilion would show inevery way much more beautiful works, and yet are farremoved from the pictorial in the modern sense. I have a coverlet, about a century old, worked in crewelson linen.
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