International studio (51.1913/1914)

Arts and Crafts Exhibition


miss mason’s work at the arts and crafts exhibition

made it possible for potters, jewellers,
wood carvers, bookbinders, illuminists,
metal workers, ceramic workers and
others to conquer new worlds of de-
sign. As such organizations must per-
force commence from tiny beginnings,
fanned into life by private enterprise
of a handful of enthusiasts—men and
women endowed with the spirit and
energy of* Mr. Frederick Lamb—so it
has been possible to aid the movement
immensely by inaugurating a night
school for instruction in arts and
crafts, which has been in successful
operation since the Fall.
We are no longer merely an agri-
cultural community, exchanging raw
products. That day is over. The
day is also past when machinery can
supply all needs; a community ruled
by machinery must inevitably lack in
observation, imagination and applica-
tion, all of which faculties are fostered
by the Crafts and become per se the
mental equipment of the craftsman.
Study of the Crafts promotes self-
expression and makes the wife the
economic partner who can sympathize
with the husband in his life’s work.


To return from generalities to the

CERAMIC DISPLAY AT THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION

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