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Common terms and phrasesallow angle ARIZONA INDIAN background basket basswood beads Bend benzine binding bookbinding border bottom brass carefully CHAPTER circle clay coil color copper cords corners cover crafts curves decoration draw edge evenly fingers finished firmly flap flat fold frame glue grain gum arabic hard-wood block heat heavy metal hold holes inches inserted kettle-stitch kiln knife lantern leather left hand mallet mark metal method modeling mortise necessary needle ornament ornamental band overglaze paper pared paste pattern perforated piece pliable pottery Problem Prussian blue punch pyrography raffia reed rivet round row of weaving rubbing sandpaper sconce screws sewing shade sharp sheepskin shown in Fig side simple smooth soft space spokes square stamped stitch straight Straight edge surface T-square tern thickness thin thread tool tray triangle turpentine vellum vertical weaver width wood woven Popular passagesPage xi - Square crown 8vo, cloth. 33. od. net This volume is intended for those who feel the need of some art expression but who cannot attend an art school, and to those who wish to follow the art of a craftsman. The craftwork in this book, which is of such a nature as will appeal especially to amateurs, is arranged in progressive lessons of increasing difficulty, so that it may easily be adapted to school conditions. The subjects dealt with are Design, Thin Woodworking, Pyrography, Sheet Metal Work, Bookbinding,... Page x - Not many years ago the study of the arts was considered to be an ornament, rather than an essential, in education; but the growing interest in the crafts, shown in our own and in foreign countries, proves the old idea to be erroneous. So rapid has been the progress in the development of the desire for beauty and its realizations in objects of our immediate environment, that popular education can no longer ignore the demands of the times. Page 239 - ... the reed and finishing, see Fig. VI. Fig. VII (b) shows the completed basket. 14. Lazy Squaw Weave, (a) SMALL COIL. To commence a round basket follow the instructions given in Fig. VI. This is a long and a short stitch. Hold the coil in the left hand. Wrap the raffia toward you and around the reed, 'then over the reed again and down through the center of the coil. This gives the long stitch, while wrapping the reed once gives the short stitch (Fig. X). In the Lazy Squaw weave the thread is wound... Page 182 - Bounding consists in drawing the sections over and tapping slightly with a hammer, first on one side of the book and then on the other... Page 230 - ... spoke would make. When there is just enough weaver left to go around once, the binding off is begun. This is a process much like overcasting. After going under one spoke and over another, the weaver is passed under the last row of weaving just before it reaches the next spoke, it then goes behind that spoke, in front of the next and under the last row of weaving before the next spoke. When a row of this binding is completed, the mat is finished with Open Border No* J. Page 57 - Let me further say that there is no method of decoration that has been more abused. Various portraits, pictures, etc., have been caught up haphazard and applied to all sorts of objects, without regard to fitness or harmony in any sense. Page 239 - Hold the reed in the left hand, draw it through the fingers of the right, shaping the end into a round coil. Page 241 - When it is necessary to splice on a new reed, trim the ends to be spliced to flat points, placing / together in such a manner that the uniform size of the reed is kept. Page 209 - To prepare these for use it is of course necessary to mix them with water. This is done by putting... Page x - I stood in silence and apart, And wondered more and more to see That shapeless, lifeless mass of clay Bise up to meet the master's hand, And now contract and now expand, And even his slightest touch obey. References from web pagesTHE ART CRAFTS FOR BEGINNERS Bibliographic information
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