Art Crafts for Amateurs

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To the Reader
The scope of this book is indicated by the title, but though addressed to amateurs it might serve as a text-book to 
those who intend to make Art-work their calling, for often the only line of demarcation between amateur and 
professional is that the latter makes a business of what the former does as a recreation. The author's aim has been
to take the leading art-crafts, and to approach them, from two points of view that of the practice of them and that of
scheming for and designing for them. Many useful hints and suggestions of a practical nature can be imparted by a
practical worker in writing to those who have made a start, or even to those who are about to begin ; while in the 
matter of design this can be dealt with in a yet more emphatic way by the help of illustrations, and the publishers 
have allowed the author to be prodigal in this matter, there being no less than 178 in the present work, gathered 
from many sources, and giving examples of craftsmen of very divergent tendencies; for it was no part of the author's
plan to select examples in which certain well-defined ideas found expression, as though there were one way only: in
the craftsman's world are many mansions.

Two visits to the Paris Exhibition, which was, indeed, a microcosm of human endeavour, enabled the author to widen
his outlook, and by enlarging the scope of his inquiries make the following pages, therefore, of more interest to the
reader, as the newer tendencies stirring craftsmen abroad have been touched upon.

This work is published three years after the author's "Training of a Craftsman," which might be considered a sequel 
to the present book, and to which he refers those readers who, having followed the writer with some pleasure and 
profit to themselves, would like to carry their studies further.

TABLE of CONTENTS

Chapter I. A METHOD OF STUDY 
Chapter II. WOOD CARVING
Chapter III. BEATEN METAL WORK OR REPOUSSE
Chapter IV. CLAY MODELLING AND METAL WORK IN RELIEF
Chapter V. ENAMELLING AND ENAMELLED JEWELLERY
Chapter VI. BOOKBINDING AND LEATHER WORK
Chapter VII. INLAYING AND STAINED WOOD DECORATION
Chapter VIII. GESSO, OR PAINTING IN RELIEF
Chapter IX. FRET WORK 
Chapter X. NEEDLEWORK: PLANNING AND DESIGNING 
Chapter XI. ANIMAL FORMS IN DECORATION 
Chapter XII. STENCILLING 
Chapter XIII. POKER WORK ON WOOD AND LEATHER 
Chapter XIV. DECORATIVE PAINTING FOR ROOMS AND FURNITURE

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