The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1907, Page 9

/v‘FR". havé artists obtained all cautiful coler schemes seem to spring full from the repcesses of the e avé the creators ok sowns, robes and cos found their enchanting combinat s? Where have the weew of the omparable Oriental rugs and ycured the delicate, elusive of taste and contrasts hat Jeok as if one &o the milliners—lords fancy—find t} which make a cf %24 been Where indeed? felicitous “born in it Not ffom the brains of artists be; gowns, the not from the clever designers of. happy thought of the mil- liner or the skill of the far away this Oriental weav: can wronderful riot olved. k4 the butterfl ere th s, “Frém Yes, from the butt - 4 e gnd perishable “cr of 2 S bave artists and designers drawn their snost subtle inspirations. They have poncedsd their debt to the matchless fnsect and ts erlative worth this of wtilizing a y.in suggestion for new color harmonies, gor the student of color knew the practical use of the butterfly long ago. world fa 'he designers of the Persian rugs and carpets knew it, too, as has been shown for ages in their pesutiful and intricate patterns modeled ideas wt sfter the wondr hidden in those deinty fluttering But wings. knew to whom the an- indebted. Tt no one clents artists were was pot until Worth discerned the practical wse to which a study of the butterfly’s colors could be put that Parisian mil- liners, quick te seize the idea, began to use it in a variety of ways. They had followed Worth’s example when he had in ot ceessful taining many and been 8 splendid color effects from flowers, when the word was whispered that but- terfilesAvere the next step In progress ready to adopt the here were many A Study in Harmony For the purpose of study, the tropical butterfly is the most ‘useful. In all th fiy, but only color results. 10,000 probable that the brilliant and varied are 100,000 species of the butter- about 10,000 are good for The greater part of the live in the tropics, and it is vegetation of the Hot countries may have had a decided effec the brilliancy of the coloring for whis: t in producing rme tterfly is the tropical ous. temperate zone boasts many buteer- fies, but thelr, colors are monotonous and dull, and in comparison With. the southern not very attractive. But b erfiies of the tropics not even the species with the finest iridescents of the hued glass is compar- but the colors of the butterfly are so finely of most subtilely eble. Imitation is indeed difficult, balanged, the exquisite harmony ONIA COMMAE \ colors which are-ra regal color schemers though they. the whole so sbvious, that even should the shade attained .be a polnt of off, still the harmony is not destroved. The butters gleam of glowin part of its body, Las 3ane some beautiful work on the under side two majy g colors on”the. outer ut nature s well. the colors would render it an easy pr ey 'nienm to an ecmy yrene it not that the com oSt .in- too small to. ctmeql Him_ complete will stiil harmonize with his dutt huns 3 in sych a way that he cannot be seen. And tHe wonderful part of this somber coloring is, thet totally unlike thgt on + the upper part of its body, the Warmony is 80 ‘exquisite that ~one bardly Knows which is the moré beautiful. <~ . Ideas for Worth The aneniron ot - Wor(h ‘was. ‘Arat who happened one auy Ao, rem-.rk t!ut » of all the designs in"nature’ tbope Lo the mo#t harmor Worth thought ‘that was something in- that passing remark that might' prove of valus to his the butterfiy were iously beautiful. there desigriers, so he placed an order with a prominent American naturalist for a be but & fashing ;@ ¢ ln fact, the very brilliancy of* MN\ m lell e e frst > Only rece iz "~/ PEAROR =7 »{vmm‘zoj iuat begun. butterfiies -and com- thelr coloring and #He has been amply terfly as om: o h(s, mosz prnlnic:mu artists 4,29 twlk ‘ot color ‘effects, Ot o — . And yota tropical | utterfly asa bqurce‘o( color study has : 0 uttge- potentialities uy_ showing . a~ m,mflnmt 1mrmqnv‘ of “golors in gold, green, biue and yellow, mens mcn-xc sueh exqguisite harmony > much @8 1€ ¢ung+ Tt s’ Hot alone that the colors - o Ewensin 17, 1907.. }ihs'co a:knofvledge of this fact, and one artiat is %0 alive to the immense ‘help to be obtained from this source that he nsver pafnts from nature with- out a dozen or more big tropical but- terfliea at hand. He says that by study- “ing them closely he i enabled to evolve tdess and celor plans befors undreamed of. and that under their influence his work is constantly shewing forth new \deas and possibilities Butterfly Rug Patterns always worth while for the to" follow nature. Whether It is craftsman the lesigndrs of the Far East were R#zre of th aphaorism is uncertjin, but it is a At many of thelr most sequiaite 2 1 dasign® bear a marked resemt l. to the -colors and pat- =s ol the Eastern butterfly. nsse and Japanese art the the bufterfly {8 fraceable. Japanese desizns and »w.” the. basieé harmonies olora .of ‘the butterfly. variatiens ' ef colors so > hasdly discernible are wings of the Chinese and rfifes. and these have heen veproduced with singular fidelity by theiactists of those realms. Thers t5 mmall ‘donbt 'that ‘those master Craftsgn © discoverfd © the infinite »t_the butterfly long ago. What makes the butteriy of such immiense value to the designers is that from. no - other source in nature can of colors be “tewnegd wi “imfitugste of Flundreds of drawings s &asdirvelated Iufinitesimal s as o seen - in tho Japanese . bu iave Brilliant &nd varied; it is that not eyen the possessor of the most vaunted % 98 colors can devise a color tas! able as a fount Schemie that will not fall far short of fa is already thémar velgus results arrived at all un- usx: bv. thei tiny insect. “the exact shade de- ot the color variations “arc so charming, withal so elusive, that ‘it is almost an impossibility to imi- ate.then And yet in the but- “térdy’ coloring the possibility of a revglutifn of dress fashions. The old pRIAEEY: colors are Included In the but- Tter Y8 shimmering outfit and these are ‘often the func al foundation of butterfly ; robe: but there from those lies ~sthe e butterfly has already beea rec- ognized in Brooklyn, and at the Pratt Institute classes are supplied with bute terflies and suggestions haye been obtained m them. As a source study the butterfly has but two possivle rivals; the fish whosa fridescent beauty fades soon after belng taken from the water, and the little beetle which is too small to be regarded as of any definite benefit. To the lay< man it seems astonishing that a fragtle creature -like the butterfly should ba in such demand, but the fact i3 that the iadustry of supplying butterfiies is a'growing one, and since Worth has given the study the stamp of his ap- proval, there will doubtless be a host of those who will do as he has done, and place the butterfily on the list of necessaries included in the desizner's art. many of color