Studio: international art (2.1894)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893

FROM A DRAWING BY E. H. NEW, IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION

thorough mastery of ornamental design. Sidney
Haward exhibits a handsome design for a wall-
paper frieze, in which a striking efiect of breadth
and space is obtained by the long wave-like trend
of the trees, between which wheel flights of
swallows. The repeat of the pattern is shown,
as it is required, in a photograph. A novelty in
printed wall decoration, since it does not repeat to
an indefinite height, is Heywood Sumner's Vine,
drawn in his most characteristic style, and printed in
tinted lacquers by Messrs. Jeffrey & Co. If it

is not meretricious to supplement the accidental
irregularities of stencil-tinting by the introduction
of shading, a sack-cloth hanging, decorated by
Francis Heron, is worth noticing as a specimen
of an unusual method. The dado in colours with
poppies, and the upper part, a nondescript diaper
in blue, are nothing extraordinary. The curtain
has already been shown once this year in the
exhibition of students' work in the National Art
competition at South Kensington.

Aymer Vallance.