DOI Heft:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0149
Studio- Talk
no errant colour flow, and lo ' the stencil is
invented. Now, with mind free from the
cares of boundary guardianship, he sets him
self to the problems of design to meet the
new conditions. Fresh difficulties arise—the
protection of isolated spaces, etc.; these
gradually modify the design, and so the
stencil grows into an art.
But it offers such an opportunity to com-
mercial embellishment that small wonder if
it fell into disrepute. And it was again
the Japanese, to whom nothing is com-
mon or unclean, who showed us how
wonderful an art this could be made.
With fingers of incredible deftness they
slice their mulberry-fibre paper into patterns
of lace-like delicacy, strengthening the weak
parts with hair laid between two simul-
taneously-cut sheets. They use the stencil
MEMORIAL MEDAL BY D. MCGILL . ... , , , ,
to enrich silks and crepes ; they also employ
it for the colouring of plates of a more
very slow; then an idea strikes him, and he cuts a pictorial character, and in many ingenious ways.
sheltering cover beyond which no line may wander, ■-
at
t
" WEARY "
126
FROM AN ETCHING BY E. BOROUGH JOHNSON
no errant colour flow, and lo ' the stencil is
invented. Now, with mind free from the
cares of boundary guardianship, he sets him
self to the problems of design to meet the
new conditions. Fresh difficulties arise—the
protection of isolated spaces, etc.; these
gradually modify the design, and so the
stencil grows into an art.
But it offers such an opportunity to com-
mercial embellishment that small wonder if
it fell into disrepute. And it was again
the Japanese, to whom nothing is com-
mon or unclean, who showed us how
wonderful an art this could be made.
With fingers of incredible deftness they
slice their mulberry-fibre paper into patterns
of lace-like delicacy, strengthening the weak
parts with hair laid between two simul-
taneously-cut sheets. They use the stencil
MEMORIAL MEDAL BY D. MCGILL . ... , , , ,
to enrich silks and crepes ; they also employ
it for the colouring of plates of a more
very slow; then an idea strikes him, and he cuts a pictorial character, and in many ingenious ways.
sheltering cover beyond which no line may wander, ■-
at
t
" WEARY "
126
FROM AN ETCHING BY E. BOROUGH JOHNSON