Inside Out Library · Explore

Home arts and crafts : how to teach yourself modelling in clay, modelling in gesso, wood carving, fret sawing, poker work, pyrogravure, leather decoration, saw-piercing, etching on metal, metal hammering, bent-iron work, applied design, ornament, wall-paper designing, textile designing, tile designing, damaged china restoring, "grangerising", taxidermy, etc., etc. (1903)

Marks, Montague (Montague Laurence), b. 1847 · London : C.A. Pearson · leaf 131

An illustration from Home arts and crafts : how to teach yourself modelling in clay, modelling in gesso, wood carving, fret sawing, poker work, pyrogravure, leather decoration, saw-piercing, etching on metal, metal hammering, bent-iron work, applied design, ornament, wall-paper designing, textile designing, tile designing, damaged china restoring, "grangerising", taxidermy, etc., etc., 1903, leaf 131
the form itself, the less important features being subordinated to the limitations of the material to be decorated. In each handicraft conventional¬ ising has its peculiar limitations and differences. The treatment demanded in one case may be improper, or, at least, undesirable in another. For… … Fig. 281.— Nasturtium and Leaves. Decorative, but nearly teiistics is apt to be more beauti¬ Natural. ful than the severely conventional

Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Home arts and crafts : how to teach yourself modelling in clay, modelling in gesso, wood carving, fret sawing, poker work, pyrogravure, leather decoration, saw-piercing, etching on metal, metal hammering, bent-iron work, applied design, ornament, wall-paper designing, textile designing, tile designing, damaged china restoring, "grangerising", taxidermy, etc., etc.

More like this