Studio: international art (77.1919)

THE WAR MEMORIALS TAPESTRY GUILD

"THE COMMUNION AT THE FRONT
DESIGN (UNFINISHED) FOR A TAPESTRY
PANEL BY E. REGINALD FRAMPTON

THE WAR MEMORIALS TAPESTRY
GUILD.

EARLY last year Sir George Frampton,
R.A., pleaded eloquently in the public
Press for a revival of tapestry as a means
of providing employment for disabled
soldiers and sailors, and at the same time
creating valuable historical records in the
shape of panels to hang in public buildings
of various kinds, and private houses, com-
memorating the great struggle which at
that time was on the eve of reaching its
critical point. The eminent sculptor’s
scheme, which had already secured the
hearty support of his distinguished fellow-
Academicians, Mr. Charles Sims, Mr.
George Clausen, and Mr. Frank Brangwyn,
quickly aroused interest in other quarters,
and as a result the War Memorials Tapestry
Guild has come into existence. Mr. Sims

especially has worked hard to further the
movement, and it is largely owing to his
energy and enthusiasm that the Guild was
able to show, in the large gallery at Messrs.
Agnew’s in Bond Street, a collection of
designs made by more than a score artists
in furtherance of the objects of the Guild.
Four of these designs are here illustrated,
and we hope to be able to include others in
a future issue. The exhibition proved
clearly that we have in our midst artists
who are capable of providing the weaver at
the loom with designs that are worthy of
the great occasion which has called the
movement into existence; and it only
remains now to give the men in whose
interests the Guild has been founded the
necessary training. It is interesting to
learn that facilities for this purpose are
being provided by the London County
Council at the Central School of Arts and

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