. Art crafts for amateurs . FRETWORK. 157 gimbleting a hole through which the saw can be saw, therefore, must be readily adjustable, so that theupper end may be passed through the hole to enable it toreach those spaces shut in, as it were, and which cannototherwise be got at. A very familiar form of fretwork arethe old piano-fronts, which con-sist of elaborategeometrical de-signs, but in thenewer and betterpianos they arenow seldom, ifever seen. Thepattern was en-tirely produced bythe portions cut away, though oc-. No. 104.—Diaper of various shaped Flowersslightly conventionalised.
. Art crafts for amateurs . FRETWORK. 157 gimbleting a hole through which the saw can be saw, therefore, must be readily adjustable, so that theupper end may be passed through the hole to enable it toreach those spaces shut in, as it were, and which cannototherwise be got at. A very familiar form of fretwork arethe old piano-fronts, which con-sist of elaborategeometrical de-signs, but in thenewer and betterpianos they arenow seldom, ifever seen. Thepattern was en-tirely produced bythe portions cut away, though oc-. No. 104.—Diaper of various shaped Flowersslightly conventionalised. casionally the ovalcentre had amoulding glued onto it to bring itforward. Such works asthese may be termed pure frets, and though I do not see why fretworkcannot be considerably modified and developed, as I shallhope to show later on, much may be done, and great varietyof design may be obtained, by merely cutting away thoseportions not required. What one feels about so many fretwork designs in the 158 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. market is their commonplace uninterestingness. They areeither geometrically 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 readers
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