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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. 13.—Clock Bracket. The introduction of the flowers in the bracketportion is a decorative conceit, though it is often possible to findan apple tree flowering and fruiting at the same time, while in suchplants as the blackberry and orange it is the usual course : it is leftto the designer to select his example, as well as his point of view. longer-existing Church of St. Mildreds, show the festoonconceit adapted to a pilaster. A central rod supports theflowers and fruit, which are attached to it by ribbons, whilean undulating scroll of foliage twists around it. The frameis one which has often been worked, and will continue to WOOD CARVING. be carved, as it is so thoroughly adapted to the needs of thecarver, as the designs seem to swell out of the moulding.Many modifications of it are possible.
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No. 14.—Design for Carved Oak Mantel-piece. The shelf is intended to besupported by the projecting capitals oneither side, while these in turn aresupported by the tree. No individualtree is referred to, as being architecturalin position, a too naturalistic renderingwould be out of place. The smaller trees also lend support to the shelfas well as dividing the length intopanels. The flowers occupying thesespaces are more naturalistic. The study of old work should runparallel with a study of nature,and I would say that one is of nouse without the other. Nature alonemight suffice, but there is thisdanger to guard against, viz., atendency to imitate nature in wood.What is meretricious in some ofGibbons work is that when he refersdirectly to nature he is content to attempt to imitate hisforms in wood, as though he were modelling waxflowers. Wood carving is not imitation, but carrying out aJM ASSACHi 1SETTS State Normal School AT WORCESTER. 2 6 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. design, which is in

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