{"id":17270,"date":"2015-09-23T01:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2015-09-23T01:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:32:40","slug":"the-book-of-delightful-and-strange-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/23\/the-book-of-delightful-and-strange-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As is evident, the designs in question are Japanese stencils from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bookofdelightful00tuer\" target=\"_blank\">a book of 100 stunning examples<\/a> published in 1893. Author Andrew White Tuer adopts a surprisingly disingenuous tone in his explanatory introduction which is\u00a0&#8220;dedicated to that most capricious, never-to-be-understood, weathercocky, provokingly incorruptible, and absolutely necessary person, the gentle reader&#8221;. Leaving aside such eccentricity, the stencils are astonishing things, especially when many of them are not only finely detailed but also form repeating patterns. Once again, I recognise some of the designs from bad reproductions in cheap books so it&#8217;s good to find them in such high quality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stencil14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stencil14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/06\/20\/nocturnes\/\">Nocturnes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is evident, the designs in question are Japanese stencils from a book of 100 stunning examples published in 1893. Author Andrew White Tuer adopts a surprisingly disingenuous tone in his explanatory introduction which is\u00a0&#8220;dedicated to that most capricious, never-to-be-understood, weathercocky, provokingly incorruptible, and absolutely necessary person, the gentle reader&#8221;. Leaving aside such eccentricity, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/23\/the-book-of-delightful-and-strange-designs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[7635],"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","tag-andrew-white-tuer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}