On Designing for the Art of Embroidery
In every form of art the thing which is of primary importance is the question of Design.
By Design I understand the inventive arrangement of lines and masses, for their own sake, in such a relation to one another, that they form a fine, harmonious whole: a whole, that is, towards which each part contributes, and is in such a combination with every other part that the result is a unity of effect, so completely satisfying us that we have no sense of demanding in it more or less.
After this statement and definition let me proceed to touch briefly upon four points in relation to the matter, as it concerns itself with the art of Embroidery; and the first of these four points shall be this. Before you commence your design, consider carefully the conditions under which the finished work is to be seen. There is a tendency in embroidery to be too uniformly delicate and minute. To be too delicate, or even minute, in something which is always to be seen close under one’s eyes is, it may be, impossible; but in an altar-cloth, a banner, a wall-hanging, this delicacy and minuteness are not merely thrown away, but they tend to make the thing ineffective. For such objects as these I have mentioned, the main lines and masses of the design should, it would seem in the nature of the case, be well emphasised; if they are well emphasised, and of course fine in their character and arrangement, there is produced a sense of largeness and dignity which is of the highest value, and for the absence of which no amount of curious workmanship will atone. In making your design, let these main lines and masses be the first things you attend to, and secure. Stand away at a distance, and see if they tell out satisfactorily, before you go on to put in a single touch of detail.
For the second point: remember that embroidery deals with its objects as if they were all on the same plane. It has been sometimes described as the art of painting with the needle; but it necessarily and essentially differs from the art of painting in this, that it, properly, represents all things as being equally near to you, as laid out before you on the same plane. It would seem, therefore, to be a sound rule to fill the spaces, left for you by the arrangement of your main lines and masses, with such forms as shall occupy these spaces, one by one, completely; with such patterns, I mean, as shall appear to have their natural and full development within the limits of each space: avoid the appearance of one thing being behind the other, with portions of it cut off and obscured by what comes in front of it. But in this, as in so much else, an immense deal must be left to the instinct of the artist.
Thirdly: aim at simplicity in the elements or motives of your design; do not crowd it with a score of different elements, which produce a sense of confusion and irritation, and, in reality, prove only a poverty of invention. A real richness of invention, as well as a richness of effect, lies in using one or two, perhaps at most three, elements, with variety in the treatment of them. Make yourself thoroughly master of the essential points, in whatever elements you choose as the basis of your design, before you set pencil to paper; and you will find in almost any natural form you fix upon more than enough to give you all the variety and richness you require, if you have sufficient natural fancy to play with it.
Lastly: return again and again, and for evermore, to Nature. The value of studying specimens of old embroidery is immense; it makes you familiar with the principles and methods, which experience has found to be true and useful; it puts you into possession of the traditions of the art. He that has no reverence for the traditions of his art seals his own doom; he that is careless about them, or treats them with superciliousness, or will not give the time and pains necessary to understand them, but thinks to start off afresh along clean new lines of his own, stamps himself as an upstart—makes himself perhaps, if he is clever, a nine days’ curiosity—but loses himself, by and by, in extravagances, and brings no fruit to perfection. The study of old work, then, is of the highest importance, is essential; the patient and humble study of it. But for what end? To learn principles and methods, to secure a sound foundation for oneself; not to slavishly imitate results, and live on bound hand and foot in the swaddling clothes of precedent. Learn your business in the schools, but go out to Nature for your inspirations. See Nature through your own eyes, and be a persistent and curious observer of her infinite wonders. Yet to see Nature in herself is not everything, it is but half the matter; the other half is to know how to use her for the purposes of fine art, to know how to translate her into the language of art. And this knowledge we acquire by a sound acquaintance with the essential conditions of whatever art we practise, a frank acceptance of these conditions, and a reverential appreciation of the teaching and examples of past workmen. Timidity and impudence are both alike fatal to an artist: timidity, which makes it impossible for him to see with his own eyes, and find his own methods; and impudence, which makes him imagine that his own eyes, and his own methods, are the best that ever were.
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Recollections of Dr. John Brown
Author of ‘Rab and His Friends.’
With Selections from Correspondence.
By ALEXANDER PEDDIE, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., F.R.S.E., Etc.
My Book of Songs and Sonnets
By MAUDE EGERTON KING.
Outlines of British Colonisation
By the Rev. WILLIAM PARR GRESWELL, M.A.
Author of ‘Our South African Empire,’ ‘A History of the Dominion of Canada,’ and ‘Geography of Africa South of the Zambesi,’ etc.
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Venice
An Historical Sketch of the Republic
By HORATIO F. BROWN,
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A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy, from 1776 to 1848
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The Evolution of Decorative Art
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By HENRY BALFOUR, M.A., F.Z.S.,
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Contents of the April Number, 1893.
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Edward Vansittart Neale as Christian Socialist. His Honour Judge Hughes, Q.C.
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The Life and History of the Famous Châteaux of France.
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A Paradise of English Poetry
Arranged by the Rev. H. C. BEECHING, M.A.,
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—Spectator.
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A Calendar of Verse
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With an Introduction by GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
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History of English
A Sketch of the Origin and Development of the English Language, with examples, down to the Present Day.
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Norway and the Norwegians
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A Survey, Comparative and Retrospective.
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By M. BETHAM EDWARDS,
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Editor of Arthur Young’s ‘Travels in France.’
Contents of Vol. I.
Introductory. Part I.—Provinces: Bourbonnais, Auvergne, Velay, Languedoc, Pyrenees. Part II.—Provinces: Anjou, Poitou, Gascoigne, Berry. Part III.—Alsace-Lorraine. Part IV.—Franche-Comté, Burgundy, Le Morvan. Appendix. Index.
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The Forest Cantons of Switzerland
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Their Political Aspects.
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The Iliad of Homer
Translated into English Prose by JOHN PURVES, M.A.,
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The Dawn of Art in the Ancient World
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Love’s Looking-Glass
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The Pocket Library of English Literature
Edited by GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Vol. I.—Tales of Mystery. Vol. II.—Political Verse. Vol. III.—Defoe’s Minor Novels. Vol. IV.—Political Pamphlets. Vol. V.—Seventeenth Century Lyrics. Second Edition. Vol. VI.—Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets.
‘Mr. George Saintsbury is the editor, and, as nobody living has a purer, wider, or better instructed taste than his in English literature, the series promises good things to a lover of books. Mr. Saintsbury’s introduction to the extracts (Tales of Mystery) is an interesting sketch in criticism, and enables a reader to see at once what is best in the stories themselves.’
—Scotsman.
‘It is not surprising to find that this volume (“Seventeenth Century Lyrics”) wherein are gathered so many lyric gems, has passed into a second edition.... It is almost unnecessary to say that Mr. Saintsbury’s selections are admirable, and there are few poems excluded which we could wish admitted, fewer still admitted which we should desire excluded.’
—Birmingham Daily Gazette.
‘Mr. Saintsbury’s selections from all three writers are fairly representative; indeed, those from Mrs. Radcliffe and Maturin show a nicety of judgment which the most fastidious critic cannot but approve.’
—Saturday Review.
‘We cannot part with the charming chaplets (Political Verse) which Mr. Saintsbury has arranged, without thanking him for the result of his wide knowledge, his untiring industry, and his impartial comprehensiveness of view.’
—Daily News.
‘“Political Verse.” A most readable and entertaining volume.’
—Times.
‘“Political Pamphlets” is a very attractive volume.’
—Times.
‘We are heartily glad that Mr. Saintsbury has put together his pretty little volumes.’
—Spectator.
Essays in English Literature
1780 to 1860.
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Contents.—The kinds of Criticism—Crabbe—Hogg (Ettrick Shepherd)—Sydney Smith—Jeffrey—Hazlitt—Moore—Leigh Hunt—Peacock—Wilson (Christopher North)—De Quincey—Lockhart—Praed—Borrow.
Essays on French Novelists
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Contents.—The Present State of the French Novel—Anthony Hamilton—Alain René Lesage—A Study of Sensibility—Charles de Bernard—Alexandre Dumas—Théophile Gautier—Jules Sandeau—Octave Feuillet—Gustave Flaubert—Henry Murger—Victor Cherbuliez.
As a judge of romantic literature Mr. Saintsbury stands on a very high eminence indeed, and few will deny that a critic of his taste and penetration is well qualified to act as cicerone to excursionists into those fields of fiction.’
—Times.
‘We should like to notice many masterly touches of critical knowledge and insight, many delightful remarks which no worthy reader will pass over or forget, but this is really not necessary. Everybody who knows Mr. Saintsbury’s former books will read and enjoy this book. There are few studies more fascinating than that of French literature.’
—Spectator.
Miscellaneous Essays
By GEORGE SAINTSBURY.
Contents.—English Prose Style—Chamfort and Rivarol—Modern English Prose (1876)—Ernest Renan—Thoughts on Republics—Saint-Evremond—Charles Baudelaire—The Young England Movement; its place in our History—A Paradox on Quinet—The Contrasts of English and French Literature—A Frame of Miniatures:—Parny, Dorat, Désaugiers, Vadé, Piron, Panard—The Present State of the English Novel (1892).
A Guide to Greek Tragedy
For English Readers.
By the Rev. L. CAMPBELL, LL.D.,
Emeritus Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews.
Studies in Secondary Education
Edited by ARTHUR H. D. ACLAND, M.P.,
Vice-President of the Council of Education;
and
H. LLEWELLYN SMITH, M.A., B.Sc.,
With an Introduction by the Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, M.P.,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Published under the Auspices of the National Association for the promotion of Technical and Secondary Education.
Teachers’ Guild Addresses,
and the Registration of Teachers
By S. S. LAURIE, LL.D.
Professor of the Theory, History, and Art of Education in the University of Edinburgh.
Contents.—The Philosophy of Mind, and the Training of Teachers—Theory, and the Curriculum of Secondary Schools—Method, and the Sunday School Teacher—Montaigne, the Rationalist—Roger Ascham, the Humanist—Comenius, the Encyclopædist and Founder of Method—The Schoolmaster and University (Day) Training Colleges—Selection from Evidence given before a Select Parliamentary Committee on a Teachers’ Registration and Organisation Bill—Report of Select Committee of the House of Commons.
Thirteen Essays on Education
Edited by the Hon. and Rev. E. LYTTELTON, M.A.,
Head Master of Haileybury College.