The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08

The latter. many Of them work very quiet
ly. and receive enough orders from wealthy
friends To keep them busy. There are sew
erai women whom | know who. as a posi-
tive fact. carve for private orders and
make from so 10 81 a week. and some
times more. Then there are many women
who teach In private and public schools.
Many private schools have taken up
wood carving. In il one learns TO draw
as well and the wood carvers become
draughtsmen and draughtswomen before
they know Il. The manual training which
is compulsory IN some OF the states in the
public Massachusetts,. for instance
has introduced wood carving You make
design on paper. and fl ia only design
bat you carve in wood. and il is the thing
Itself; error CA the paper may not he
very apparent. but in the wood il stands
out glaringly
Wood carving / believe. should be taken
up by degrees. every style taught, but
gradually First. I take up The chip cary
ing That is the Swedish geometrscal de-
signs. ard Il requires only two toos 1t
may Ire a simple panel or il may be
Swedish drinking cup. but thu designs are
the same. and bring in the straight lines
The circle ard the half circl. Only a
chisel and . veinIng tool are used. and the
work is done by compass ard rule That Is
The way the drawing Is taught
After that coslsw the fraehapd work
There are three stages tn this part Of the
work. The first brings in the Novsernan
The OLD viking styles. and the coied
dragons ara the pare curves and requires
two moro tools. In the second stage there
IS more modelling In the work. and three
mere tools are usasf. and she third stage is
stiil more elaborate and TWO more ieslls
are introduced. After tina. comes the Ry-
zantlne style. which IA a distinct historic
ornament TEa. has the long Sweea and
the modelling Is given with strong effects
There are ersat many books upon
wood carving which are misleading They
have bSen written by people VINO have
taken Up the. work by Themselves au3 are
not thoroughly grounded. They write as
people 10 who cs 20 a foreign country and
say two weeks an3 saen write ats9st the
cllsst IT'S ana manners % tae p@apl. Rut
everything iaat ear be learned about his
tcric GF73snent = of advantage. lpwen
jones Grammar ~ Ornament cannot be
studied Zoo wUch. That Is 81 o.i work but
Z. - 3 coed ere-
There is strTxag tendency IN modern
times for "a mixture 0f cTna nsent The
Byzans}0e has a strong connection with
t'se han1aneSsaUe. hut 4 student should
sn0@ ,ae pare Styles Ara bke % have
ss@tenfs make &asAEu-s 81 tAsir osn ard
have tasm criticised ! Use only original
designs Ia the different Styles I faa Nn
of'ssstSc2 n manual tgstzFs3E2es schools t.lat
the teachers do not give cCssl designs trey
30 Dot know tns different sssylas. ans tasg
eann0E g{vs re FspsAs taat knowledge. In
ncF1taz r.aHGss training work ms Teachers
sho3d lsarn tAe different srylaS ana sae
work s2ou,i &c graded an8 ors tasos after
another introduces tas pupil "a rea5y to
Gsa e.. After tse byzantine. Style hax been
learned. the Renaissance Ags3 az otaers fol-
loN Il
a beginner ia Erss carving rar ga
tsc&s ~sta SIX spos& he st4oa44 naz 1see
saare caiH ~ aa1s ta&. 81 she tx Semcses
g ths 1aSk ae ssescs xnc-.lS. aaEs ses2