. Art crafts for amateurs . er-scription : we hall mark it, in fact. The vine design, for instance, No. 7, was suggested by apanel of old German carving; yet the departures made aresufficiently important to enable men to claim it as engineer friend who has made wood carving his hobby,and has obtained considerable skill in the use of tools, getshis designs by taking rubbings of old carving he meets within churches; but unless one exercises some skill in theselection and arrangement of such material, it is apt to lookscrappy and wanting in unity of design. It is essential inplanning
. Art crafts for amateurs . er-scription : we hall mark it, in fact. The vine design, for instance, No. 7, was suggested by apanel of old German carving; yet the departures made aresufficiently important to enable men to claim it as engineer friend who has made wood carving his hobby,and has obtained considerable skill in the use of tools, getshis designs by taking rubbings of old carving he meets within churches; but unless one exercises some skill in theselection and arrangement of such material, it is apt to lookscrappy and wanting in unity of design. It is essential inplanning out an idea to have some notion of how the workwill look as a whole, some central scheme which ties thework together and gives it a one-ness. It is no use thinkingof details until the main lines of the work are securely laid,,and this plan of carving bits and then putting them c l8 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. all together later on cannot lead to the best results. Takethe examples of seventeenth-century carving in Nos. 8 and 9. 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
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