DOI Heft:
No. 140 (October, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0303
Studio-Talk
quantity finds its way into the market. There is a
strong and effective movement now being made to
insure the good quality of the work done, and to
prevent its deterioration. Unfortunately very little
scope exists for the development of modern designs,
the copying of old designs being insisted upon.
In the youngest of the needlework revivals, the
revival of lace-making, servile imitation is by no
means encouraged. High praise can be given to the
examples sent to us, and exhibited in one of the
centre cases. There are but a few pieces, and each
one is worthy of notice. They are original in design,
and the subtle introduction of delicate colours is a
happy inspiration. _
In the other crafts exhibited there is but little to
attract interest; the clinging to old traditions at the
expense of free expression is too often manifest, but
this fault must be condoned in a nation where so
little encouragement has been given in the past to
the life of its art instincts. In the jewellery this want
of breadth is probably most to be regretted, for, as
craftsmen, these goldsmiths and silversmiths and
enamellers are altogether admirable, but as yet one
sees no trace of individual, living feeling. T. R.
It is not often that a display of Russian art is to be
CARPET EXECUTED AT THE GODOLLO
SCHOOL OF WEAVING
(Hungarian Exhibition, Earl's Court)
Not less interesting than the carpets
is the peasant embroidery, work that
can hold its supremacy from the technical
point of view among the finest traditional
peasant work of any country. Every
district in Hungary has its particular
form of embroidery; the stitches and
designs in one village are quite distinct
from those in a village but a few miles
distant, and this has apparently been
the case throughout the past. The
craft of the needle is in the vigour of
life, more so perhaps than in any other
western country, for national costume is
still worn in all parts of Hungary, and
the lavish embroidery of the garments is
one of the most characteristic and dis-
tinctive features of the peasant national
costume. During the winter months,
when outdoor labour decreases, a large
amount of needlework is accomplished
by the peasant women, and a great
iwpjsraj
WOVEN SQUARE EXECUTED AT THE GODOLLO SCHOOL
OF WEAVING
(Hungarian Exhibition, Earl's Court)
285
quantity finds its way into the market. There is a
strong and effective movement now being made to
insure the good quality of the work done, and to
prevent its deterioration. Unfortunately very little
scope exists for the development of modern designs,
the copying of old designs being insisted upon.
In the youngest of the needlework revivals, the
revival of lace-making, servile imitation is by no
means encouraged. High praise can be given to the
examples sent to us, and exhibited in one of the
centre cases. There are but a few pieces, and each
one is worthy of notice. They are original in design,
and the subtle introduction of delicate colours is a
happy inspiration. _
In the other crafts exhibited there is but little to
attract interest; the clinging to old traditions at the
expense of free expression is too often manifest, but
this fault must be condoned in a nation where so
little encouragement has been given in the past to
the life of its art instincts. In the jewellery this want
of breadth is probably most to be regretted, for, as
craftsmen, these goldsmiths and silversmiths and
enamellers are altogether admirable, but as yet one
sees no trace of individual, living feeling. T. R.
It is not often that a display of Russian art is to be
CARPET EXECUTED AT THE GODOLLO
SCHOOL OF WEAVING
(Hungarian Exhibition, Earl's Court)
Not less interesting than the carpets
is the peasant embroidery, work that
can hold its supremacy from the technical
point of view among the finest traditional
peasant work of any country. Every
district in Hungary has its particular
form of embroidery; the stitches and
designs in one village are quite distinct
from those in a village but a few miles
distant, and this has apparently been
the case throughout the past. The
craft of the needle is in the vigour of
life, more so perhaps than in any other
western country, for national costume is
still worn in all parts of Hungary, and
the lavish embroidery of the garments is
one of the most characteristic and dis-
tinctive features of the peasant national
costume. During the winter months,
when outdoor labour decreases, a large
amount of needlework is accomplished
by the peasant women, and a great
iwpjsraj
WOVEN SQUARE EXECUTED AT THE GODOLLO SCHOOL
OF WEAVING
(Hungarian Exhibition, Earl's Court)
285