Studio: international art (20.1900)

Home Arts and Industries

sketch for needlework design by the british and irish spinning, weaving, and lace school

THE HOME <r
ARTS AND
INDUSTRIES
EXHIBITION
AT THE ALBERT
HALL.

Visitors to the Lon-
don exhibitions of the
year must have thought
more than once of Rus-
kin's saying as to the
relation between art and
war. While the most
sanguine of us would
hardly look for an imme-
diate quickening of artis-
tic impulses through
martial activity, it is
pleasant to find that the
Home Arts and Indus-
tries Association have at
least taken no advantage
of the indulgence claimed
for other local enterprises
through the recent crisis
in national affairs. The
display of British handi-
crafts at the Albert Hall,
in May, fell nowise short
of last year's standard.
Quite a number of class-

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noiaers were reporieu as executed by miss a. baker and

having "gone to the philip burgess Porlock Weir Class

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