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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 270

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 270 — -thing which must go through the fire to be fused some-thing like equal contraction and expansion is a necessity. Goldsmiths have from the earliest days made good useof incrustation in the form of fine wire or of grains andpearls of gold (77-79) soldered on. A thin foil of soft metalmay be attached… … 231. DECORATION IN GLASS UPON GLASS VENETIAN. surface roughened to give it tooth. Oriental metalworkershave made admirable use of this expedient, using, for example,silver and copper upon brass or bronze for colours sake (164,282). The effect is more that of inlay than of incrustation,and it is…

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