Identifier: artcraftsforamat00mill (find matches)
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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NEEDLEWORK. 185 display our command over our material and our hand-cunning, or else why employ stitches to effect what a touchof the brush does so much better? The design should always bear some ratio to the surface
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No. 129.—Flying Birds, adapted ror applique. The main forms onlyare suggested by stitching. to be covered and the use to which the work is to be put.Where a curtain is generally seen in folds it would beinappropriate to work on it a design that would be spoiltby not being seen as a whole. I believe, too, in producing ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. the maximum of effect for the expenditure of time. Ofcourse there is nothing against producing a highly wroughtpiece of needlework, and for certain purposes time need notbe considered, though there is never any excuse for wasting it.There are more calls on our time, more things we want todo than was the case even half a century ago, and so to

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