Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 453
will 436 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, adhere to anything, and draw out to a thread some yards inlength without breaking. By certain dexterous movements of theright hand, in which the wooden point supporting the plastic matteris held, and by the middle finger of the left hand raising the clothwhen… … Fig. 187. and even the small parts of the flowers, as the stamens, are outlinedwith this mucus, which falls upon the cloth as a thread of aboutthe thickness of an ordinary pin-shank. The whole pattern, how-ever small its detail, or however finely serrated its leaves, is thusoutlined. But as this…
Architecture -- Japan · Art -- Japan · Japan -- Description and travel
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