INDUSTRIAL ART 



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INDUSTRIAL ART 



Add to each bottle a teaspoonful of mucilage. 

 Fill the bottles with water, put the corks in, 

 and let them stand until the cakes are en- 

 tirely dissolved. 



For printing sticks, there are many things 

 which you can use. The ends of matches will 

 print small round or square shapes; the ends 

 of small corks will print larger circular shapes, 

 and the clean-cut edges of thick cardboard will 

 print lines or stems. At the hardware store 

 you can buy dowels, which are round sticks, 

 in quarter-inch and half-inch sizes. Short 

 lengths (about an inch) will make excellent 

 printing sticks. With a knife you can whittle 

 or cut the ends of these sticks into different 

 shapes, and this will give you a greater variety 

 of units of design. 



For printing pads use small pieces of cotton 

 flannel, folded double. Place a pad in a small 



you will need to prepare a diagram by ruling 

 your paper into equal spaces. Fig. 12 shows a 

 piece of paper whose vertical etlges have been 

 ruled into equal spaces, and whose horizontal 



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Fig.ll. Groups of shapes 



spaces have been ruled into spaces one-half 

 and one-quarter as large. In the spaces thus 

 made, groups of shapes have been printed, as 

 shown in Figs. 13 and 14. In Fig. 13 the 

 background might be of light brown construc- 

 tion paper, and the shapes printed in red. In 







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saucer and pour on it a few drops of any of 

 your dissolved colors. When the pad has 

 soaked up the color, press the end of a print- 

 ing stick into the pad, and then press it on 

 white or light-colored paper. The impression 

 should be clear and perfect. Practice printing 

 these shapes with the other colors, and with 

 the various sticks which you have collected. 



To print green, pour a few drops of yellow 

 and a drop or two of blue on the clean pad. 

 The mixture will make green. To print orange, 

 drop yellow and red on a clean pad. To print 

 violet, drop red and blue on a clean pad. 

 Experience will teach you how to add more 

 or less of any color to produce the color you 

 want (see the article COLOR). Fig. 11 shows 

 many interesting shapes and groups of shapes 

 that may be printed with this simple outfit. 



When these units are carefully spaced in 

 border rhythm, a number of interesting stripe 

 designs will result. In planning stripe designs 



Fig. 14 the background might be light gray- 

 green, and the shapes blue. With these pretty 

 papers you can make boxes, envelopes, book 

 covers or any other article that could be suit- 

 ably made from decorated paper. 



Probably you would most enjoy printing 

 these shapes on cloth, for then your designs 

 would look like real patterns bought at the 

 store. From your mother's piece-box select 

 scraps and remnants of striped ginghams, cali- 

 cos or percales. Blue and white, brown and 

 white, green and white or black and white 

 stripes will be excellent foundations for your 

 designs. If the pieces are wrinkled, dampen 

 them slightly and press them smooth with a 

 hot iron. Fasten a piece to a board or stiff 

 cardboard by pins placed on each corner. 

 Then print a border rhythm made of repeated 

 units or groups of units in alternate stripes. 

 Figs. 15 and 16 show two good designs. Fig. 15 

 may be a dark blue, striped gingham, printed 





