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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 257

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t the mechanical appliancesof manufacture. Stencilling is, in fact, the artists personalmeans of manufacture. It is his one opportunity of doing hisown work or seeing it done under his immediate direction ;it enables him to accept a commission which otherwise hecould not have undertaken. He knows… … QQC 220. FRETTED LEATHER ONLAID ON TOSEWN DOWN WITH STRIPS OF DARKER LEATHER ANDPARCHMENT, than he can do with them. He adopts the available means.Stencilling is the means of reproduction at his hand. Much in the same way embroidery is in out-of-the-waycountry districts the peasants means of…

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