DOI Heft:
No. 119 (January, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0263
Studio-Talk
EMBROfDERED BORDER BY MISS GARNETT
SILVER TEAPOT BY B. CUZNER
Gleeson exhibited a small panel, modern in feeling
and showing promise for this craft; and the work-
manship of the London School of Tapestry Weav-
ing deserves notice, though nothing can yet be
said of the progress in design. A new tapestry
loom, horizontal instead of upright, was exhibited
by the Decorative Needlework Society, and being
small and light, may tend to popularise tapestry
and encourage fresh workers in this art. Mrs.
G. F. Watts, whose pottery is now too well known
to demand praise, had a large display of work,
and a few of the minor exhibitors were inter-
esting from the quaintness of their subjects if not
because of their intrinsic merit. These latter,
however, should hardly be counted as serious
workers. Their endeavours are mostly directed
in channels where novelty steps in to fill the
place left vacant by Art.
Perhaps it may not be long before we have a
recognised “Lyceum of Handicrafts,” an Academy
of Applied Arts, which will enable its members to
be worthily classified as artists, and, in ennobling
the members, restore “Decoration” to the position
it once held.
The “Dove Cross” in Mr. Edmund Hunter’s fine
design, which we reproduce on this pagu, forms the
central ornament in an altar frontal chosen from his
work by Queen Alexandra for the private chapel at
Windsor Castle. It was executed for Her Majesty
in white and gold silk brocade by the St. Edmunds-
bury Weaving Industry, established by Mr. Hunter
some three years ago at Haslemere, in Surrey. The
work was woven on hand-looms by some of the his-
toric Spitalfields silk weavers, brought to Haslemere
by Mr. Hunter to start and develop his industry, in
which he aims at uniting artistic design with better
craftsmanship than can be obtained by the use of
the power-loom.
The Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition
again maintained its representative standard. Mr.
Orchardson, R.A , and Mr. Sargent, R.A., by the
presence of their work enhanced the character of
distinction which always belongs to the Portrait
Painters’ Society. A notable feature of the recent
show were the portraits by the late Fantin Latour
and the late Eugene Carriere. Sir L. Alma-
“ THE DOVE CROSS,” DESIGNED BY EDMUND
HUNTER AND HAND-WOVEN IN SILK BY THE
ST. EDMUNDSBURY WEAVING INDUSTRY
249
EMBROfDERED BORDER BY MISS GARNETT
SILVER TEAPOT BY B. CUZNER
Gleeson exhibited a small panel, modern in feeling
and showing promise for this craft; and the work-
manship of the London School of Tapestry Weav-
ing deserves notice, though nothing can yet be
said of the progress in design. A new tapestry
loom, horizontal instead of upright, was exhibited
by the Decorative Needlework Society, and being
small and light, may tend to popularise tapestry
and encourage fresh workers in this art. Mrs.
G. F. Watts, whose pottery is now too well known
to demand praise, had a large display of work,
and a few of the minor exhibitors were inter-
esting from the quaintness of their subjects if not
because of their intrinsic merit. These latter,
however, should hardly be counted as serious
workers. Their endeavours are mostly directed
in channels where novelty steps in to fill the
place left vacant by Art.
Perhaps it may not be long before we have a
recognised “Lyceum of Handicrafts,” an Academy
of Applied Arts, which will enable its members to
be worthily classified as artists, and, in ennobling
the members, restore “Decoration” to the position
it once held.
The “Dove Cross” in Mr. Edmund Hunter’s fine
design, which we reproduce on this pagu, forms the
central ornament in an altar frontal chosen from his
work by Queen Alexandra for the private chapel at
Windsor Castle. It was executed for Her Majesty
in white and gold silk brocade by the St. Edmunds-
bury Weaving Industry, established by Mr. Hunter
some three years ago at Haslemere, in Surrey. The
work was woven on hand-looms by some of the his-
toric Spitalfields silk weavers, brought to Haslemere
by Mr. Hunter to start and develop his industry, in
which he aims at uniting artistic design with better
craftsmanship than can be obtained by the use of
the power-loom.
The Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition
again maintained its representative standard. Mr.
Orchardson, R.A , and Mr. Sargent, R.A., by the
presence of their work enhanced the character of
distinction which always belongs to the Portrait
Painters’ Society. A notable feature of the recent
show were the portraits by the late Fantin Latour
and the late Eugene Carriere. Sir L. Alma-
“ THE DOVE CROSS,” DESIGNED BY EDMUND
HUNTER AND HAND-WOVEN IN SILK BY THE
ST. EDMUNDSBURY WEAVING INDUSTRY
249