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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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designsaccompanying these notes that I have a penchant for thequaint and grotesque. A touch of the savage or barbariccertainly seems to me to suit repousse. The heraldic treat-ment of animal forms, as instanced in Nos. 33 and 34,can be most effectively rendered in beaten metal. A fireplace I saw in a house was decorated with anumber of copper panels, about six inches square, puttogether like tiles to cover the lower part of the chimneybreast. Some of these squares had quaint animals wroughton them, while others were plain hammered metal, and a.very striking feature in the room was this hammered copper.No. 34 was suggested by sixteenth-century Renaissance, theblending of animal forms with ornament being a very BEATEN METAL WORK OR REPOUSSE. 59 noticeable feature of such work. The reader can obtainmany suggestions from old work which he can adapt to hisspecial requirements. I confess I am more at home on such a design as No. 35,in which nature is only simplified and arranged to suit the
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No. 40.—Design for Repousse Bowl, with a decorative rendering ofthe Ragged Tulip. The frog and snail are introduced to givevariety to the design. The base to have a border of butterfliesornamentally treated. space to be covered. This class of design would appear tome to be more within the scope of the amateur, as thematerial can be found in museums and books on naturalhistory and botany, while considerable scope is left for theindividual to express himself. On the other hand, the work 6o ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. known as Renaissance does not leave one much libertyof action. It is a mine that has been very thoroughlyworked in the past, and, for myself, I feel so trammelledand bounded by precedent that my volition almost desertsme. It is like attempting to breathe the air of a hot orchid

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