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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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rk,but require a helping hand, and that mainly as to what todo and what is best worth doing, though I venture to hopeI may be of some helpfulness to the mere beginner. So many amateurs soon come to pause for the want of alittle directing as to what sort of designs they shall carry out.Undoubtedly what every amateur should strive for is tomake his own designs, for truly a design should grow underthe fingers, evolve as the hands manipulate the tools, and itis a drawback to have a set design before one which has tobe literally adhered to. The best work is that which growsunder the craftsmans hand, for it is well-nigh impossible foranyone to see what should be done from the beginning ; it A METHOD OF STUDY. 3 must be evolved as the work proceeds. A sketch is muchwhat the heads of a sermon are to the delivered oration. If the craftsman were in every sense the author of thework, it would gain both in interest and character, and tothat end I shall hope to direct particular attention in these
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No. r.—Beaten Copper Mirror Frame (Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone).This and the four following cuts show the excellent work producedin villages and small towns by amateur craftsmen. pages to the matter of design, and it is a reasonable hopethat this book may not only stimulate, but help thoseworkers who peruse it to carry out their own ideas insteadof merely executing what some one else has invented. AsI am responsible for a proportion of the designs given in 4 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. these pages, it may not be out of place to say that my chietobject in giving them is that they may do something toelucidate the text and help the reader to tread with somewhatsurer footing the slippery pathway of the art he has essayedto follow. I am very conscious of the shortcomings ofmany of the designs, but no worker is called upon to usethem further than they may be of suggestive value to him.Treat these drawings as raw material which every workercan use in his own way: no harm will then befall anyone,

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