. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 80.—Wardrobe by Messrs. Majorelle Freres, showing naturalesqueinlay and carving. (In the Paris Exhibition, 1903.) 120 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. what has been done—paralyses the worker, and in thusbeing but a shadow of some one stronger than ones self isalways to be behind. It is not necessary to enunciate such a truism that we areall the result of what has gone before, for what we haveseen and studied passes into our being, becoming part ofour mental fibre, and, whether we will or not, it is bound tofind expression in any effort towards originality we make;but th
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 80.—Wardrobe by Messrs. Majorelle Freres, showing naturalesqueinlay and carving. (In the Paris Exhibition, 1903.) 120 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. what has been done—paralyses the worker, and in thusbeing but a shadow of some one stronger than ones self isalways to be behind. It is not necessary to enunciate such a truism that we areall the result of what has gone before, for what we haveseen and studied passes into our being, becoming part ofour mental fibre, and, whether we will or not, it is bound tofind expression in any effort towards originality we make;but that is not the same thing as putting on some otherworkers glasses, and seeing everything as he saw it. If we. No. 81.—Ornamental repeating Border in which nature is onlyhinted at, no one plant being taken, but suggestions frommany. The seed-pods and flowers are modelled ( n the Colum-bine, but the ornamental planning of the design is the firstconsideration. are going to make an original effort (not quite the samething, by the way, as being original) we must forget whathas been done, we must leave the well-worn path and strikeinto the unknown. Whether that will bring us to our goalis another matter; but many of us are willing to foregowhat the Academicians call style (which I take to mean thefalling into a certain definite groove, so that we can be INLA YING. 121 pigeon-holed in the critics mental bureau) for the sake ofindividuality. In the craft of the inlayer, for instance, one cannot,unfortunately, forget the dozens of well-known patternswhich one has seen let into furniture. This traditional art,with its well-recognised formulae, shackles us, preventing allfree movement; and even the Fr
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