Arts and Crafts Essays

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Rivington, Percival, & Company, 1893 - 420 стор.
 

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Сторінка 420 - From Abraham to David The Story of their Country and Times. By HENRY A. HARPER, Author of ' The Bible and Modern Discoveries,' and Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. This book is intended as a help to the better understanding of the wonderful story of the Old Testament. The period contained in it comprises some of the most interesting and critical times of Jewish history. CONTENTS.— The Call and Life of Abram— The Cities of the Plain — The Life of Joseph —...
Сторінка 4 - The true root and basis of all Art lies in the handicrafts. If there is no room or chance of recognition for really artistic power and feeling in design and craftsmanship — if Art is not...
Сторінка 34 - Embroidery : of the design for which it must be said that one of its aims should be the exhibition of beautiful material. Furthermore, it is not worth doing unless it is either very copious and rich, or very delicate, or both. For such an art nothing patchy or scrappy, or half-starved, should be done...
Сторінка 130 - The essential point to be remembered is that the ornament, whatever it is, whether picture or patternwork, should form part of the page, should be a part of the whole scheme of the book. Simple as this proposition is, it is necessary to be stated, because the modern practice is to disregard the relation between the printing and the ornament altogether, so that if the two are helpful to one another it is a mere matter of accident.
Сторінка 25 - Textiles, are as solid as they can be made in painting. Carpet-weaving is somewhat of the nature of Tapestry: it also is wholly unmechanical, but its use as a floorcloth somewhat degrades it, especially in our northern or western countries, where people come out of the muddy streets into rooms without taking off their shoes. Carpet-weaving undoubtedly arose among peoples living a tent life, and for such a dwelling as a tent, carpets are the best possible ornaments. Carpets form a mosaic of small...
Сторінка 204 - All shades of blue can be got by this means, from the pale "watchet," as our forefathers called it, up to the blue which the eighteenthcentury French dyers called " Bleu d'enfer." Navy Blue is the politer name for it to-day in England. I must add that, though this seems an easy process, the setting of the blue-vat is a ticklish job, and requires, I should say, more experience than any other dyeing process. The brown dyes, walnut and catechu, need no mordant, and are substantive dyes; some of the...
Сторінка 420 - Royal 32*»0. 2s. Or in 2 vols. (the ' Hours ' and ' Mirror ' separately). 2s. 6d. [Copies may also be had in sheets, complete, is. 6d.] The Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary According to the Sarum Breviary, together with a brief Commentary from
Сторінка 14 - Handicraft, influences. It asserts, moreover, the value of the practice of handicraft as a good training for the faculties, and as a most valuable counteraction to that overstraining of purely mental effort under the fierce competitive conditions of the day ; apart from the very wholesome and real pleasure in the fashioning of a thing with claims to art and beauty, the struggle with and triumph over the stubborn technical necessities which refuse to be gainsaid.

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