DOI Heft:
No. 29 (August, 1895)
DOI Artikel:The Home Arts and Industries Association, at the Albert Hall
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0187
Home Arts and Industries at the Albert Hall
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cabinet designed and carved by miss m. a. heath gesso panel by miss ada clegg. Leigh
to-day, the eleventh year of the society, a few ultra- whether amateur or professional, may be discovered
superior people prefer to regard it in that light, from a glance at the exhibits. Indeed, the first
Others see in it nothing less than a movement general impression yielded by the exhibition as a
which shall effect the artistic regeneration of whole, is one of regret that many excellent sheep
England, and by-and-by restore taste and skill to lack an adequate shepherd; yet the taste for
the masses, and indirectly educate the teachers design, based on sound architectural foundation,
meanwhile, since no good instructor ever imparts is rare in English communities,
half so much as he himself learns from practical On the whole, therefore, it is only right to say
experience of the work under his direction. plainly that the work is more interesting as evidence
Between these two extremes lies the truth no of well-sustained effort, than for its accomplished
doubt, but far nearer the latter. In-
deed, if the progress of the last ten
years can be maintained, or rather
increased in similar geometrical pro-
portions, but a few more decades
should see England again a nation of
skilled craftsmen.
For this enterprise, despite its
shortcomings, is worthy of the sup-
port of all who can aid it in any way.
So far it has escaped almost entirely
the faddist and the misguided fanatic
with a mission. Throughout its wide
programme there is evidence of an
effort on the part of the teachers to
accomplish things well within reach,
instead of straining toward the im-
possible. Year by year, we are told,
shows that the criticism of the judges
has borne fruit. Of course, in an
institution so decentralised as this,
the personnel of each branch affects
the work greatly. The presence or
absence of the genuine designer, forged iron log-stand, designed by h.r.h. the princess of wales,
j g g Sandringham
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wm/it/i
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cabinet designed and carved by miss m. a. heath gesso panel by miss ada clegg. Leigh
to-day, the eleventh year of the society, a few ultra- whether amateur or professional, may be discovered
superior people prefer to regard it in that light, from a glance at the exhibits. Indeed, the first
Others see in it nothing less than a movement general impression yielded by the exhibition as a
which shall effect the artistic regeneration of whole, is one of regret that many excellent sheep
England, and by-and-by restore taste and skill to lack an adequate shepherd; yet the taste for
the masses, and indirectly educate the teachers design, based on sound architectural foundation,
meanwhile, since no good instructor ever imparts is rare in English communities,
half so much as he himself learns from practical On the whole, therefore, it is only right to say
experience of the work under his direction. plainly that the work is more interesting as evidence
Between these two extremes lies the truth no of well-sustained effort, than for its accomplished
doubt, but far nearer the latter. In-
deed, if the progress of the last ten
years can be maintained, or rather
increased in similar geometrical pro-
portions, but a few more decades
should see England again a nation of
skilled craftsmen.
For this enterprise, despite its
shortcomings, is worthy of the sup-
port of all who can aid it in any way.
So far it has escaped almost entirely
the faddist and the misguided fanatic
with a mission. Throughout its wide
programme there is evidence of an
effort on the part of the teachers to
accomplish things well within reach,
instead of straining toward the im-
possible. Year by year, we are told,
shows that the criticism of the judges
has borne fruit. Of course, in an
institution so decentralised as this,
the personnel of each branch affects
the work greatly. The presence or
absence of the genuine designer, forged iron log-stand, designed by h.r.h. the princess of wales,
j g g Sandringham