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    Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople
    Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople
    Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople
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    Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople

    By W. G. Paulson Townsend

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    Remarkably broad in its applications, this helpful reference covers a wide variety of plants. More than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns are provided for such plants as the anemone, arbutus, broad bean, bell-flower, briar rose, campanula, canterbury bell, dahlia, and lily; a detailed narrative provides descriptions of physical features and general botanical information for each plant.
    Invaluable for making stencils, needlework canvases, and other floral design projects, this thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide will be a boon to amateur and professional artists, art students, and crafters.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 16, 2012
    ISBN9780486148670
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      Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople - W. G. Paulson Townsend

      Potato.

      Fig. 1.

      See page 8.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2005, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published as Plant and Floral Studies for Designers, Art Students, and Craftsmen by Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ltd., London and New York, in 1901.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Townsend, W G. Paulson.

      [Plant and floral studies for designers, art students, and craftsmen]

      Plant and floral studies for artists and craftspeople / W.G. Paulson

      Townsend.—Dover ed.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: Plant and floral studies for designers, art students, and craftsmen. London ; New York, : Truslove, Hanson & Comba, 1901.

      9780486148670

      1. Decoration and ornament—Plant forms. I. Title.

      NK1560.T7 2005

      743’.73—dc22

      2005048370

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501

      PREFACE.

      A BOOK on Plant and Floral Studies for Designers, Art Students, and Craftsmen, may appear to many art-workers quite unnecessary. Some explanation, therefore, of the aims and object in publishing this book will, doubtless, be expected. In the first place I feel convinced that an inexpensive collection of plant studies in line, from a structural point of view, of a purely practical description, is greatly needed. At the same time I am aware that several books of acknowledged excellence, dealing with this subject and its application to design, have already appeared. The aim of this work is to be a Designer’s sketch-book of plant form only. On each plate an inch scale is given; and every study has a short description, giving the time of flowering, the situation, and other details, as colour, height, etc. At times more than one plant is required for the same design, and it is helpful in making the selection to have some such information at hand, or, if it is desirable to introduce insects, birds, or animals, such notes will, I think, be found useful. From my experience, it is all too painfully evident that students are much hampered by hints or suggestive designs based on, and placed by the side of, the plant studies, and purporting to show how to adapt the natural forms to surface repeating patterns, such as wall-papers, stencil, and textile coverings, or to pottery, metal-work, wood carving, etc. Young students frequently accept the scheme placed before them as the best, if not the only successful way of using that particular plant for the purpose. The idea may be exceedingly good, but it is not the student’s. He may have been saved a little thinking, but it may have the effect of retarding the development of his own individuality, which is the most lamentable.

      SEVERAL excellent books on plants, reproduced by photographic processes, are now obtainable, and for the general reader such illustrations serve the purpose admirably, but for the Designer there is much more required than is usually given. A slight line drawing from nature, intended to be utilized for design, may strike some of those stimulating notes which present themselves to an ornamentist, thereby acting as an inspiration for an applied ornament, while fully expressing the characteristics of the plant, and the salient facts of growth combined with truth. A photograph is exceedingly useful when a reliable drawing cannot be had, or the special plant you require is unobtainable. Such works as Curtis’s Londinensis, or Sowerby’s Botanical Magazine, and more recent productions of this description, valuable and thoroughly satisfactory as they are to the Botanist, are not what the Designer requires ; he is working in a totally different direction; and they certainly miss many of the most precious and interesting features that an art-worker is in search of. Plant Form, by F. E. Hulme—which is, I believe, now out of print—has been of great service to the Designer ; so also has Plant Studies,

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