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Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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No. 10.—Tnis is a rough sketch of a portion of the carved panelsforming the Screen in Trinity College, Oxford. The workmanshipis as fine as anything I know, and the whole being pierced, has alight and elegant appearance which is delightful. The design isvery intricate, but the ingenuity with which the curves play intoeach other evinces much skill and resource. The wreaths andfestoons are good instances of the seventeenth-century conceits so often met with in the decoration of the time. The introductionof angels heads gives a human interest to the work. that it appeared likely to lead to more useful ends to examinethe work which is considered to be opposed to the Gothic 22 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS.
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No. ii.—Nature Notes used in making Designs 6 and 7. It will benoticed that apples are anything but round, and their angularnature should be made a feature of in a carving based on the apple.•Truth to nature is being true to the growth of the plant youbase your design upon, however much you may ornamentalisecertain features of the plant. If you depart from nature, be surethat you gain thereby. WOOD CARVING. 23 tradition. The examples are so characteristic as well asexcellent in themselves that that was quite sufficient reasonto warrant me giving them had I no other. While a studyof Gothic will give our work robustness, virility, and a feel-ing for nature, a study say of the screen by Grinling Gib-bons—a frag-ment of which Igive a sketch ofin No. 10—willteach us graceand balance, afeeling forcurves and in-genuity in theinterweaving ofscrolls; whilethe original atOxford will re-veal to us thepossibilities ofwood under thehands of acraftsman whocould hold agouge with askill and u

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