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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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South KensingtonMuseum. These early designers evinced a great love of,and considerable ingenuity!in evolving the most intricate strap work patterns. I have shown where the straps go over and under, and it would greatly add to the effect ofsuch a fret to slightly lower, with a flat chisel, the strapspassing under. This would involve no difficulty which alittle practice could not overcome and it would be develop-ing fretwork in a perfectly legitimate way. If these twodesigns be cut as simple frets much of the effect will be lost,as the under and over nature of these Keltic designs istheir distinctive feature. It would be a good exercise iningenuity to try and evolve fresh combinations in thisdirection. It is sometimes necessary to use the same plants againand again in design. The grape in No. no is a case inpoint. It is a plant which fulfils all a designers requirements,and will continue to be employed for decorative purposes asmuch in the future as it has been in the past. The trellis
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FRETWORK. 165 work gives character as well as supports the designs, and toshow more distinctly the floral portion I have left the trelliswhite. At an artist friends house I saw the top portion ofa recess which he had filled with shelves, occupied withupright lattices, forming a receptacle for canvasses andother artists clutter. It occurred to me that to add a fret

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