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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 274

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necessary—and it may yet be artisti-cally all that is needed. When it comes to work of moreartistic pretensions, however, such as figure medallions, cameoheads and so forth, rather bluntly stamped on glass, onebegins to resent the use of mechanical appliances. TheChinese have done charming things… … COLOURED THREADS OK GLASS UPON GLASS —IHCENICIAN. 238 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. colour only they would, likethe Bohemian glass - cutters,blow a vessel say in whitecoated with red, and cut awayeither ground or pattern asseemed good to them, soften-ing the effect afterwards in thefurnace,…

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