International studio (16.1902)

Liverpool School of Art

made golden by the
sun, and for the
brightest of gay
flowers. Chaucer’s
genius, indeed, like
his Squire’s dress in
the Prologue to The
Canterbury Tales
“ is embroidered as
it were a mede, alle
ful of freshe floures,
white & red.”
A whole-hearted
return to the same
passion for colour
would do much to
counteract the injury
done to the colour-
sense by the dun-
toned dress and the
smoke-stained archi-
tecture of a com-
mercial time. The
decorative arts may
give us at home
those gladdening
harmonies of colour

which the present type of
society has ousted from our
streets. Among the art
schools there are several
that realise this fact, and
that show their appre-
ciation of it in many
ways, as by an attempt to
reinstate the useful art of
embroidery in a place °t
honour. The embroidered
work done by the students
of the Glasgow School is
often very attractive, more
especially in its breadth of
design and in the uncom-
mon effects produced by a
skilful use of fine blues and
greens. At Liverpool, too,
progress is being made
along the right lines. Here,
no doubt, as in Glasgo"’>
the actual finger-craft, the
“stitchery,” is sometimes
rather rude, rather uncouth
embroidered cushion cover by erances jones and peasant-like ; but evet1
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embroidered d’oyleys