Stained glass work: A text-book for students and workers in glass
- Author(s): Christopher Whall
- Category: Glass
- Publisher: London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, ltd.
- Publish year: 1914
- ISBN: 9678000000903
- Number of Pages: 398
In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the ArtisticCrafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims.In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books ofworkshop practice, from the points of view of experts who havecritically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting asidevain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship, and to setup a standard of quality in the crafts which are more especiallyassociated with design. Secondly, in doing this, we hope to treat designitself as an essential part of good workmanship. During the last centurymost of the arts, save painting and sculpture of an academic kind, werelittle considered, and there was a tendency to look on "design" as amere matter of _appearance_. Such "ornamentation" as there was wasusually obtained by following in a mechanical way a drawing provided byan artist who often knew little of the technical processes involved inproduction. With the critical attention given to the crafts by Ruskinand Morris, it came to be seen that it was impossible to detach designfrom craft in this way, and that, in the widest sense, true design is aninseparable element of good quality, involving as it does the selectionof good and suitable material, contrivance for special purpose, expertworkmanship, proper finish, and so on, far more than mere ornament, andindeed, that ornamentation itself was rather an exuberance of fineworkmanship than a matter of merely abstract lines. Workmanship whenseparated by too wide a gulf from fresh thought--that is, fromdesign--inevitably decays, and, on the other hand, ornamentation,divorced from workmanship, is necessarily unreal, and quickly falls intoaffectation. Proper ornamentation may be defined as a language addressedto the eye; it is pleasant thought expressed in the speech of the tool.
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THE ARTISTIC CRAFTS SERIES OF TECHNICAL HANDBOOKS EDITED BY W. R. LETHABY STAINED GLASS WORK
EDITOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY, AND CONCERNING THE RAW MATERIAL
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
PART II CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES
GLOSSARY
INDEX