PHOTOGRAPHY 93 



No Glass . ^^^'^ t'^'^ photographic frieze is fin- 

 Covering ished, it needs to be considered as a part 

 of the wall scheme, and not as a picture 

 hung out of sight. It cannot be covered with glass, 

 therefore, as the reflection from the glass will spoil the 

 general effect, which should be soft. If the prints are 

 carefully made, fully fixed, and well washed and toned, 

 so that they are permanent, there should be no diffi- 

 culty about durability. A mat varnish would assure 

 permanence. Where the frieze has been hung under a 

 picture- rail I have bound it by a small round molding, 

 completing the frieze idea ; and in the same way a 

 treatment above the picture-rail seems to be obviously 

 incomplete without some slight binding. 



I am of opinion that there is a fascinating possi- 

 bility for home decoration in this photographic frieze 

 scheme, and I believe as fully that it can be worked 

 out by some photographer with taste and ability into a 

 profitable means of providing unique and individual 

 decorations for people of wealth and taste, who have 

 not the skill, time or inclination to do such things for 

 themselves, but are willing to part with the coin of the 

 realm to the artistic decorator who can give them some- 

 thing that no one else has, probably, from motives 

 obtained on the place and absolutely suiting the envi- 

 ronment. 



To plan photographic motives for decorating pottery ; 

 to furnish patterns for fine linens ; to get rid of the 

 artistic abominations and conventionalizations that 

 make some woven fabrics anything but beautiful, when 

 they might be beautiful ; to plan motives for wall-papers 

 that will be the real thing ; these and scores of other 

 possibilities are ahead of the decorative photographic 

 worker, who takes up, with courage, skill and taste, a 

 line of work that is as yet practically untouched, or at 

 least undeveloped. 



J. Horace McFarland. 



Note. — All the examples in the foregoing pages are from 

 Mr. McFarland save those otherwise noted. 



