International studio (34.1908)

Slimmer Arts and Crafts


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Rural and summer colonies
OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS.
All through the active life of William
Morris, the great pioneer of the modern
English handicraft
movement, there ran like
a peaceful undercurrent
the constant story of the
opening buds, the flow-
ering fruit trees, the
song of the birds at
Kelmscott. He also for-
sook his shops in smoky
London for the free air,
the running brook, the
simpler surroundings of
Merton Abbey.
To-day Air. Ashbee,
the disciple and friend
of Morris,, after thirteen
years at Essex House in
the. slums of London,
has sought out the me-
dieval village of Chip-
ping Campden in the
Coltswold hills of Glou-
cestershire, where he has
transported an entire
community of crafts
workers.
Down in Surrey, in
the picturesque village
of Haslemere, Mr. God-
frey Blount has planted
another colony of peas-
ant weavers and workers
in the various branches
of handicraft, his object gateway

being “to restore the true country life, its faith, its
crafts; to increase the love of traditional design, to
encourage beautiful and useful handiwork done
under happy conditions.
In Ireland Miss Gleeson has founded the Dun

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