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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 229

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 229 — wire telling bright against the relativelyblack ground. The design on the opposite page was pro-bably made for damascening; but it would serve equallyfor niello, except that in it no advantage is taken of theopportunity of leaving broader masses of bright metal to con-trast with the finer filigree,… … GARNET INLAY-CLOISONNE. into which silver is inlaid. The use of ablack varnish or other such filling as abackground to engraved brass (182) (aswe fill in the background to a memorialtablet) is a less thorough way of gettingthe desired effect; but, apart from itsliability to lose its hold of the…

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