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Rh the design on a separate strip of material and applying it to the piece of work to be decorated.

I have dwelt a little at length on this subject because so many of the decorative arts are dependent on it. In fact, I doubt if any ever attain too much excellence in certain departments of ornamental work, without finding, through much tribulation, that they must learn to draw.

One caution in closing. Do not, until you have practised for a long time, attempt to draw from memory. Have the form which is the foundation of your design before you, remembering always that no matter how much you may conventionalize that form, the characteristics of the original must be preserved.

Let me add a word of encouragement taken from the Manual quoted above. "If a beginner can only draw a line half an inch long, in a clean, well-defined manner, and with confidence, he may hope to do anything in art," and "My own experience warrants me in declaring that grown-up people learn to draw much more rapidly than children, since they have better memories, stronger will, and far more perseverance."