. Art crafts for amateurs . No. ii.—Fish panel, with background of ornamental water. Themarkings on the fish are given with a carving tool. tation of a cabinet, as I have shown in No. 115. Theshelves are got out in the usual way and the cabinet puttogether ; though, of course, the two sides must be fret-cutbefore the article is fixed up. In the side indicated thepattern is formed, as will be seen, by the porlio7is cut away,whereas, in most other cases, it is by the portion left that thedesign is produced. The Japanese frequently adopt thisplan of cutting out the design itself, and it would be
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. ii.—Fish panel, with background of ornamental water. Themarkings on the fish are given with a carving tool. tation of a cabinet, as I have shown in No. 115. Theshelves are got out in the usual way and the cabinet puttogether ; though, of course, the two sides must be fret-cutbefore the article is fixed up. In the side indicated thepattern is formed, as will be seen, by the porlio7is cut away,whereas, in most other cases, it is by the portion left that thedesign is produced. The Japanese frequently adopt thisplan of cutting out the design itself, and it would be good No. 118.—Portion of a pierced and carved doorway in SouthKensington Museum. 172 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. practice to make positives of some design, say the rose orgrape, and see how they would come if cut out instead ofbeing left as negatives. To return to the cabinet. The frets are got out of, say,^-inch wood, and then glued on to the edges of the shelvesand sides. It seems to me that a very good effect mightbe obtained by such a treatment as that indicated in should always try to employ ones labour to some effec-tive end, and that is why I endeavour to indicate to what usesfretwork can be put; pipe-racks and photo-frames are twoof the poorest uses to which the craft can be applied and dolittle to encourage the craftsman to put out his full much work amateurs engage in is directed to such poorpurposes that the work itself ceases to interest. In one ofGeorge Eliots novels {Felix Holt, I think), ladies fancywork is described as innumerable stitches taken to pro
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