DOI Heft:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0036
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
best in a machine-woven ta-
pestry by A. H. Lee, or in a
wall-paper printed by Messrs.
Essex & Co. In both cases
the birds and leaves are thin
and disjointed, actually un-
like those beautiful designs
reproduced in last month's
Studio. Some woven hang-
ings by A. H. Lee, from
designs by Lewis Day, are
handsome fabrics. The same
artist scarcely shows to such
advantage in the hand-blocked
and machine-printed velve-
teens of Messrs. Turnbull &
Stockdale, as in their printed
cotton dress fabrics in which
the designs are on a com-
paratively small scale.
Thomas Wardle, of Leek,
occupies much space with
four large frames of printed
fabrics, of which the only re-
markable ones are a silk de-
signed by Leon Solon, which
I know not how to describe
otherwise than by the epithet
gigantesque, and another by
Walter Crane. It consists of
a series of panels with figure
subjects, in the treatment of
DESIGN FOR A PANEL IN GESSO (THE PANEL ONLY EXHIBITED). BY ARTHUR SILVER, ^ characteristics are
EXECUTED BY H. NAPPER 1 1 j
as strongly marked as ever.
by Walter Crane, though no whit inferior to his After all, while admiring the extraordinarily facile
standard work in point of drawing, are open to the draughtsmanship of Walter Crane's textiles and
objection that they are rather too pictorial for the wall-papers in which figures are introduced,
purposes of machine weaving. By the kindness of have we not most of us had misgivings as to
Mr. John Wilson our reproductions are from the whether they might not have been better suited for
original designs). Two large pieces of hand-woven picture-books than for house decoration ? Good
tapestry by Messrs. Morris & Co. are quite designs, unexecuted, for printed cottons and other
splendid. One, the cartoon for which by E.
Burne-Jones was reproduced in our September
number, is fully equal to the famous Star of
Bethlehem tapestry, while the other, here repro-
duced, is specially interesting because, contrary to
his wont, William Morris himself designed the
figures. A pile carpet, designed by William
Morris and executed under his direction, with a
magnificent pattern of birds and conventional
floral forms on a background of blue, with border
on a red ground, is one of the principal objects in
the West Room. C. F. A. Voysey, one of the
ablest of living designers, hardly appears at his
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DETAIL OF THE ABOVE
best in a machine-woven ta-
pestry by A. H. Lee, or in a
wall-paper printed by Messrs.
Essex & Co. In both cases
the birds and leaves are thin
and disjointed, actually un-
like those beautiful designs
reproduced in last month's
Studio. Some woven hang-
ings by A. H. Lee, from
designs by Lewis Day, are
handsome fabrics. The same
artist scarcely shows to such
advantage in the hand-blocked
and machine-printed velve-
teens of Messrs. Turnbull &
Stockdale, as in their printed
cotton dress fabrics in which
the designs are on a com-
paratively small scale.
Thomas Wardle, of Leek,
occupies much space with
four large frames of printed
fabrics, of which the only re-
markable ones are a silk de-
signed by Leon Solon, which
I know not how to describe
otherwise than by the epithet
gigantesque, and another by
Walter Crane. It consists of
a series of panels with figure
subjects, in the treatment of
DESIGN FOR A PANEL IN GESSO (THE PANEL ONLY EXHIBITED). BY ARTHUR SILVER, ^ characteristics are
EXECUTED BY H. NAPPER 1 1 j
as strongly marked as ever.
by Walter Crane, though no whit inferior to his After all, while admiring the extraordinarily facile
standard work in point of drawing, are open to the draughtsmanship of Walter Crane's textiles and
objection that they are rather too pictorial for the wall-papers in which figures are introduced,
purposes of machine weaving. By the kindness of have we not most of us had misgivings as to
Mr. John Wilson our reproductions are from the whether they might not have been better suited for
original designs). Two large pieces of hand-woven picture-books than for house decoration ? Good
tapestry by Messrs. Morris & Co. are quite designs, unexecuted, for printed cottons and other
splendid. One, the cartoon for which by E.
Burne-Jones was reproduced in our September
number, is fully equal to the famous Star of
Bethlehem tapestry, while the other, here repro-
duced, is specially interesting because, contrary to
his wont, William Morris himself designed the
figures. A pile carpet, designed by William
Morris and executed under his direction, with a
magnificent pattern of birds and conventional
floral forms on a background of blue, with border
on a red ground, is one of the principal objects in
the West Room. C. F. A. Voysey, one of the
ablest of living designers, hardly appears at his
24
DETAIL OF THE ABOVE