The Arts and Crafts Society's Exhibition
COLOUR AND I.USTRE MUG, COVERED FACETED VASE, JARDI’NIERE, CHINA NAPKIN RING, AND JUG. PAINTED
BY ALFRED H. AND LOUISE POWELL; EXECUTED AND EXHIBITED BY J. WEDGWOOD AND SONS
Elaborate pictures in embroidery, such as were
frequently to be seen a few years ago at the
exhibitions of the National Art Competition and
sometimes at those of the Arts and Crafts Society,
seem for the time to have passed out of fashion in
needlecraft. There was little of the kind at the
recent exhibition, where table linen, bedspreads,
samplers and garments for children were more in
evidence than the work of successors to the famous
Miss Linwood. Mrs. Christie, accomplished as a
teacher and as a worker, exhibited among other
things in the Large Gallery a wall panel and some
attractive embroidered table linen executed in
conjunction with Fraulein Kipping and Fraulein
Mussner and a cross-stitch sampler by her own
hands.
Most of the needlework, however, was displayed
in the Small Gallery, where there were embroidered
curtain borders by Miss E.
Kate Paveyand Miss Lucy
E. B. Mackenzie and a
child’s dress by Miss Ellen
A. Walton, together with
many other pieces of equal
interest. Among the need¬
lework in the Corner Gal¬
lery was the embroidered
fire screen shown in one of
the illustrations that ac¬
company this article. The
screen with its quaint pat¬
tern of fir trees, toadstools
and field grasses and flowers
was designed and worked by
Miss Dorothy C. Hudson.
Mr. Ambrose Heal’s dresser of chestnut wood
was reminiscent of the early days of the Arts and
Crafts Society when cottage furniture of the
simplest type was popular among certain of the
members. But Mr. Heal’s dresser, though plain
almost to austerity, was designed on good lines and
was beyond reproach in workmanship. Much of the
earlier furniture of the ultra-simple type betrayed
the amateur at the first glance and was either
rickety or ponderously and immovably heavy.
The Central School of Arts and Crafts in
Southampton Row exhibited a music cabinet
in walnut wood designed by Mr. William Weinhart
and made under the direction of Mr. Charles
Spooner and Mr. E. J. Minahane. It was in good
taste and well fitted for the purpose for which it
was planned.
There were many other things worthy of notice
PANEL FOR ALTARPIECE IN CHILDREN’S CHAPEL BY E. M. ROPE
27
COLOUR AND I.USTRE MUG, COVERED FACETED VASE, JARDI’NIERE, CHINA NAPKIN RING, AND JUG. PAINTED
BY ALFRED H. AND LOUISE POWELL; EXECUTED AND EXHIBITED BY J. WEDGWOOD AND SONS
Elaborate pictures in embroidery, such as were
frequently to be seen a few years ago at the
exhibitions of the National Art Competition and
sometimes at those of the Arts and Crafts Society,
seem for the time to have passed out of fashion in
needlecraft. There was little of the kind at the
recent exhibition, where table linen, bedspreads,
samplers and garments for children were more in
evidence than the work of successors to the famous
Miss Linwood. Mrs. Christie, accomplished as a
teacher and as a worker, exhibited among other
things in the Large Gallery a wall panel and some
attractive embroidered table linen executed in
conjunction with Fraulein Kipping and Fraulein
Mussner and a cross-stitch sampler by her own
hands.
Most of the needlework, however, was displayed
in the Small Gallery, where there were embroidered
curtain borders by Miss E.
Kate Paveyand Miss Lucy
E. B. Mackenzie and a
child’s dress by Miss Ellen
A. Walton, together with
many other pieces of equal
interest. Among the need¬
lework in the Corner Gal¬
lery was the embroidered
fire screen shown in one of
the illustrations that ac¬
company this article. The
screen with its quaint pat¬
tern of fir trees, toadstools
and field grasses and flowers
was designed and worked by
Miss Dorothy C. Hudson.
Mr. Ambrose Heal’s dresser of chestnut wood
was reminiscent of the early days of the Arts and
Crafts Society when cottage furniture of the
simplest type was popular among certain of the
members. But Mr. Heal’s dresser, though plain
almost to austerity, was designed on good lines and
was beyond reproach in workmanship. Much of the
earlier furniture of the ultra-simple type betrayed
the amateur at the first glance and was either
rickety or ponderously and immovably heavy.
The Central School of Arts and Crafts in
Southampton Row exhibited a music cabinet
in walnut wood designed by Mr. William Weinhart
and made under the direction of Mr. Charles
Spooner and Mr. E. J. Minahane. It was in good
taste and well fitted for the purpose for which it
was planned.
There were many other things worthy of notice
PANEL FOR ALTARPIECE IN CHILDREN’S CHAPEL BY E. M. ROPE
27