DOI issue:
No. 68 (October, 1902)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The national competition of Schools of Art
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22774#0358
The National Competition
FRIEZE
BY JOSEPH B. PETCH (SHEFFIELD)
feeling, and is intended
to be carried out as
“ Carrickmacross ” lace.
Another excellent lace
collar is by Nellie Cooke
(Worcester), whose light
decorative method shows
how very little ornament
a good lace can do with
and yet produce an effect
both choice and rich.
Maude Cooke (Worcester)
sends a similarly good
collar design. Both these
work also. This lady promises to sustain the
tradition of all-round efficiency by which many
Lambeth scholars have done credit to their school.
Her design for collar and cuffs is quite original in
GLAZED TILES BY R. GILL (COLCHESTER)
DESIGN FOR TILES BY HARRY ALLEN (BURSLEM)
students show a fresh and personal way of using
leaf and flower forms in lace design. In the same
group the work ot Alice M. Sanders (Nottingham),
Kathleen V.Coulson (Dublin), and HaroldWhitaker
(Bradford) is conspicuously good. The Taunton
work is not quite up to its usual level. Damask
table linen is a favourite subject and a difficult
one for design—quick to avenge any lapse into the
pictorial, and demanding real skill to make its con-
ventions interesting but not fatiguing to the eye.
Amy James (Watford) succeeds admirably in giving
sincerity and charm to quite old-fashioned methods
and decorative forms, and the balance between the
strenuously original and the frankly imitative is
happily attained by Alfred Jefferson (Banbury)
and James Stoope (Belfast). Winifred Patterson
(Sunderland) also sends some very pleasing damask
designs.
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FRIEZE
BY JOSEPH B. PETCH (SHEFFIELD)
feeling, and is intended
to be carried out as
“ Carrickmacross ” lace.
Another excellent lace
collar is by Nellie Cooke
(Worcester), whose light
decorative method shows
how very little ornament
a good lace can do with
and yet produce an effect
both choice and rich.
Maude Cooke (Worcester)
sends a similarly good
collar design. Both these
work also. This lady promises to sustain the
tradition of all-round efficiency by which many
Lambeth scholars have done credit to their school.
Her design for collar and cuffs is quite original in
GLAZED TILES BY R. GILL (COLCHESTER)
DESIGN FOR TILES BY HARRY ALLEN (BURSLEM)
students show a fresh and personal way of using
leaf and flower forms in lace design. In the same
group the work ot Alice M. Sanders (Nottingham),
Kathleen V.Coulson (Dublin), and HaroldWhitaker
(Bradford) is conspicuously good. The Taunton
work is not quite up to its usual level. Damask
table linen is a favourite subject and a difficult
one for design—quick to avenge any lapse into the
pictorial, and demanding real skill to make its con-
ventions interesting but not fatiguing to the eye.
Amy James (Watford) succeeds admirably in giving
sincerity and charm to quite old-fashioned methods
and decorative forms, and the balance between the
strenuously original and the frankly imitative is
happily attained by Alfred Jefferson (Banbury)
and James Stoope (Belfast). Winifred Patterson
(Sunderland) also sends some very pleasing damask
designs.
272