Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 101
as it is distinctly after its kind,painting, carving, hammering, stitching, or whateverit may be. A workman fairly proficient in any of theapplied arts, and in the habit of thinking overwhat he is about, must produce work that is apt.If he be a man of any individuality his work will be 88 Every-day… … Adapted to simple inlay. else he may do, he is bound to make it ornamental.One cannot properly begin to design ornamentuntil one has some knowledge of what it is to beapplied to; and it is the test of all good ornament The Workman and Ids Tools. 89 that is applied judiciously, that it does not in…
Decoration and ornament
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