Lovely Nouveau nymph example of an antique Flemish Art Co. pyrography box that I picked up yesterday. CLICK HEREto learn more about this process of do-it-yourself-art wood working.
Very pretty! I don't think I could have accomplished that with my very, very who thought to sell this to children wood burning kit. Which I just burned myself and pretty much everything else other than the wood.
I've never heard the term "pyrography" before today, though it's clear enough that I didn't even have to look it up. I used to own an electric wood-burning kit, too--everybody in my generation did, apparently--and, uh, yeah, besides harming myself and my friends, and breathing some pretty iffy black fumes, all I ever managed with it was to char the wobbly outlines of some cartoon characters into the world's least durable wood. Not one thing survived the seventies.
What strikes me about the whole sordid affair is that no instruction ever mentioned any noble history related to this "art form," or even provided one beautiful or cunning example of it either. I might have gotten more involved if I'd seen stuff that looked like this. But what I was sold as a tween was the idea that, if I toiled hard enough, I too could make coasters that looked like burned ashtray bottoms.
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Very pretty! I don't think I could have accomplished that with my very, very who thought to sell this to children wood burning kit. Which I just burned myself and pretty much everything else other than the wood.
This is one form of art I will leave to the professionals, or those who own welder's gloves to prevent burns.
It is a lovely artistic item, I wonder what the box was meant to hold- cigars, jewelry, mementos, I guess anything you could think of.
Again, nice find and nice score, Karswell.
I've never heard the term "pyrography" before today, though it's clear enough that I didn't even have to look it up. I used to own an electric wood-burning kit, too--everybody in my generation did, apparently--and, uh, yeah, besides harming myself and my friends, and breathing some pretty iffy black fumes, all I ever managed with it was to char the wobbly outlines of some cartoon characters into the world's least durable wood. Not one thing survived the seventies.
What strikes me about the whole sordid affair is that no instruction ever mentioned any noble history related to this "art form," or even provided one beautiful or cunning example of it either. I might have gotten more involved if I'd seen stuff that looked like this. But what I was sold as a tween was the idea that, if I toiled hard enough, I too could make coasters that looked like burned ashtray bottoms.
Anyway, this thing is beautiful.
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