. Art crafts for amateurs . designs, and theywere exceeding skilful in weaving theirornamental and figure motifs into pat-terns. It has always seemed to me thatit is degrading natures supreme handi-work to make a scroll or other pattern end in a human torso•or head. This I allow is a question of individual taste, butwithout staying to argue the point we will pass on to con-sider the introduction of animal forms into designs, for herethere can be no feeling of repugnance, as some of us havewhen the human form is made into an ornamental the contrary, it adds variety and interest to
. Art crafts for amateurs . designs, and theywere exceeding skilful in weaving theirornamental and figure motifs into pat-terns. It has always seemed to me thatit is degrading natures supreme handi-work to make a scroll or other pattern end in a human torso•or head. This I allow is a question of individual taste, butwithout staying to argue the point we will pass on to con-sider the introduction of animal forms into designs, for herethere can be no feeling of repugnance, as some of us havewhen the human form is made into an ornamental the contrary, it adds variety and interest to decorativework to introduce animal forms, and it may be worth whileto see how we can best use such forms in our work. I havechosen some admirable examples of Japanese drawings offish, among other illustrations to this chapter, because thisEastern Art is a perfect mine of wealth to the decorativeartist, upon which he can draw, and from which he canlearn so much as to the adaptation and treatment of suchmotifs in his ANIMAL FORMS. 199 The reason, it appears to me, that Japanese animal studiesare so adapted to the requirements of the designer is that
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