Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . forming very beautiful traceryin low relief on the oppositeside. Such impressions havealways suggested the idea of asimilarly simple, chaste, andelegant ornamentation of theplainer and commoner impressions left by theChondrus crispus, Dictyota dicho-toma, and other flat and inter-lacing forms, are most admir-able for such a process. Simpleaccidents may often lead to un-expected results ; and Grecianlegends even attribute the dis-covery of modelling in relief tothe tracing upon th
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . forming very beautiful traceryin low relief on the oppositeside. Such impressions havealways suggested the idea of asimilarly simple, chaste, andelegant ornamentation of theplainer and commoner impressions left by theChondrus crispus, Dictyota dicho-toma, and other flat and inter-lacing forms, are most admir-able for such a process. Simpleaccidents may often lead to un-expected results ; and Grecianlegends even attribute the dis-covery of modelling in relief tothe tracing upon the wall, by a SEA-WE EDS. 125 potters daughter, of the shadow of her departing lovers face,which her father modelled afterwards in clay. Passing by the genera Arthrocladia, Sftorochnus, and Car-fiomttra, which all, in a greater or lesser degree, offer pleasingrunning patterns for the painting of porcelain or earthenware,and of flat surfaces in general, we come to the noble family ofthe Lamtnartce, so well and ordinarily known under the namesof sea-girdles and tangle. The size and expanse of the fronds. Root of Laminaria. of the various species of LaminaricB exposed, in the bleakand unprotected situations in which they grow, to the fullfury of the waves, are provided for in their leathery toughness,the rope-like stem, and the numerous attaching discs of theirbranching roots. The root of the sea-weed differs very materiallyfrom the root of a plant: through it no nutritious sustenanceis conveyed to the algal; it draws nothing from the soil; it isfurnished with no organs ; it is merely an adhesive holdfast, similar i26 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. in principle to the sucker by which street-boys lift bricks andstones; it sends down no ramifying fibres into crevices of therocks, but merely adheres to the surface. How far their peculiarcharacters could be elegantly made use of for the handles of vases,covers, lids, and other objects and parts of articles which require tobe lifted or raised
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