. Art crafts for amateurs . ch theornamentation was in poker work, andin addition colour was employed, andmost excellent and original was theeffect obtained by the work alone is a very legitimateand effective way to ornament wood. Perhaps oak lendsitself better to this treatment, though the example in theSalon just alluded to was done on pine, and where colour isto be used in combination a light wood is to be class of design best suited to poker work is where thebackground can be burnt away, leaving the forms in flat-relief; such a pattern, for instance, as the
. Art crafts for amateurs . ch theornamentation was in poker work, andin addition colour was employed, andmost excellent and original was theeffect obtained by the work alone is a very legitimateand effective way to ornament wood. Perhaps oak lendsitself better to this treatment, though the example in theSalon just alluded to was done on pine, and where colour isto be used in combination a light wood is to be class of design best suited to poker work is where thebackground can be burnt away, leaving the forms in flat-relief; such a pattern, for instance, as the Vine No. 7, page16, could be well wrought in poker work, or the quaintrenderings of fish and other animal forms scattered throughthese pages could be adapted for the purpose, particularlythose from the Japanese given in the chapter on AnimalForms in Decoration, for here we have effects obtainedby a well-defined outline, and what detail there is is of anornamental work is, I am aware, often used for producing. POKER WORK. 225
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