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In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic Crafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims. In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of workshop practise, from the points of view of experts who have critically examined the methods current in the shops, and putting aside vain survivals, are prepared to say what is good workmanship, and to set up a standard of quality in the crafts which are more especially associated with design. Secondly, in doing this, we hope to treat design itself as an essential part. | WOOD-CARVING DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP BY GEORGE JACK WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1903 6 Copyright 1903 By D. Appleton and Company All rights reserved Published October 1903 EDITOR S PREFACE In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic Crafts it will be well to state what are our general aims. In the first place we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of workshop practise from the points of view of experts who have critically examined the methods current in the shops and putting aside vain survivals are prepared to say what is good workmanship and to set up a standard of quality in the crafts which are more especially associated with design. Secondly in doing this we hope to treat design itself as an essential part of good workmanship. During the last century most of the arts save painting and sculpture of an academic kind were little considered and there was 8 a tendency to look on design as a mere matter of appearance. Such ornamentation as there was was usually obtained by following in a mechanical way a drawing provided by an artist who often knew little of the technical processes involved in production. With the critical attention given to the crafts by Ruskin and Morris it came to be seen that it was impossible to detach design from craft in this way and that in the widest sense true design is an inseparable element of good quality involving as it does the selection of good and suitable material contrivance for special purpose expert workmanship proper finish and so on far more than mere ornament and indeed that ornamentation itself was rather an exuberance of fine workmanship than a matter of merely abstract lines. Workmanship when separated by too wide a gulf from fresh thought that is from design inevitably decays and on the other hand ornamentation divorced from workmanship is necessarily unreal and quickly falls into affectation. Proper ornamentation 9 may be defined as a .
