Emblems and motifs were great favourites with the quilt workers of "ye olden times" and together with mottoes were worked into many pieces of embroidery.
Fashioned long after contacts with China had been broken, these Amida gardens already disowned many of the decorative motifs in the earlier, Tang-style parks.
Baste all motifs on muslin and fill with background stitch.
These motifsare very expensive and not really necessary.
Doily with crochet edge] Then these motifs are basted on a pattern of cambric, or paper muslin which has been cut to the desired shape.
Some of the handsomest imported pillows have motifs of real Filet, Irish Crochet or Cluny lace.
A row of chainstitching is worked and basted to the edge of the pattern, then the filling in background is worked, joining the different motifs together with rows of chainstitching and picots or any other background stitch desired.
In Irish Crochet the motifs are made separately mostly worked over a padding cotton.
This story, which is a mixture of well-known motifs and incidents, really falls into two parts, though an attempt is made at the end to bind them together.
Carancal motifs ABCDF1 are very old in the Islands, and that these taken together probably constituted the prototype of the "Carancal" group.
Its Garden Court and Fable Room, where La Fontaine's diverting inventions serve as the motifs for murals, attract the younger set for dancing and tea.
The sandstone quadrangles, arcades and red tile roofs, which reproduce the feeling of the early Mission buildings, are finely achieved examples of period motifs applied to collegiate architecture.
Illustration: Hacienda de Xcanatún, Yucatán: one of a series of gold wallmotifs around chapel walls.
Hacienda de Xcanatún, Yucatán: one of a series of gold wallmotifs around chapel walls.
While in motifs and materials as well as in the principal points of style these playlets present a sort of epitome of his artistic progression up to date, they also display some new and significant qualities.
The design motifs are unique in comparison with those found on other English pottery of the 17th century.
Motifs: The motifs are varied and never occur in any one combination more than once.
An attempt to arrive at the sources of the most common motifs of the maerchen of different peoples and ages will reveal the fact that the majority of them must undoubtedly be traced to the totemic age.
This renders available a wealth of new tonal possibilities, and adds an inexhaustible supply of new motifs for the expression of feelings and emotions.
In cards of this kind, careful attention must be given to the motifs used and to the placing of these motifs in the general composition.
Illustration: PLATE 11 A SET of holiday motifs that will help in planning Christmas Gift Cards or quotations.
The use of cut out motifs in colored paper is an easy way for the younger artists to make their cards.
The cards and motifs shown on these plates make a series of general suggestions.
The test of a student’s ability lies in the way he is able to arrange such motifs into a good card, or the manner in which he derives ideas from these motifs for original work.
By planning motifsthat hold well together, and are strong in design, it is possible to cut out some very acceptable blocks in heavy linoleum.
The holiday motifs shown in Plate 11 are not only adapted to gift cards, but also to posters, place cards, and room or tree decorations.
Let’s use motifs and scenes and wording which create the charm of our home section, and we will find that the card will be doubly welcomed by the recipient on that account.
It is a good problem to allow the students to take such a page of motifs and from them to plan their own card, using their own ideas as to size of card, proportion, lettering, etc.
We have no more right to weigh these compositions in the scales of our artmotifs than we have to weigh Greek rhythm of quantity or Saxon of alliteration against our weights by which we measure rhythm of rhyme and stress.
From his lifelong studies in linguistics in connection with his research in “the motifs of civilizations and cultures,” he comes well-equipped to take up the difficult and all-absorbing study of American hieroglyphic writing.
Mr. New has used architecture for themotifs of a series of unusually pleasing plates.
The vine and tree forms that are motifs are very effective, and in all of these we see suggestions of treatment similar to that which stands out perhaps a little more pronouncedly in the plate of Miss Douglas.
The decorative motifs employed on the surrounding Arcade are sea plant life and its animal evolution.
The piers, arches, reeds and columns bear legendary decorative motifs of the transitional plant to animal life in the forms of tortoise and other shell motifs - kelp and its analogy to prehistoric lobster, skate, crab and sea urchin.
Though brilliant in themselves and clear in coloring, none of the three decorations in this court are sufficiently naive in design for the space - much too smart and knowing, they might be easel picture motifs used for the occasion.
The number of replicas used as repeated architectural motifs in order to create an effect of richness necessitated by the styles of architecture, is very numerous.
Evening cloak of strawberry satin charmeuse, trimmed silk passementerie, motifs and fringed stoles of dull gold embroidery, thirty-five guineas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motifs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
