DOI Heft:
Nr. 46 (January 1897)
DOI Artikel:The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1896 (final article)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0290
The Arts and Crafts
sketch plan for the decoration" of a church by heywood sumner
silk and wool tapestry hanging
274
the nineties, one must not
forget the missionaries by
whose zeal and sustained
courage the battle has been
won. All can raise the
flower when all have got
the seed; but the first
sowers should be reckoned
as the most important
factors, especially when the
vigour of twenty years is
proved to be still undimin-
ished.
The exhibits by Arthur
Silver demand more than
a passing word, for by the
death of this very accom-
plished designer the applied
arts have lost a staunch
ally. To improve the level
of manufactured articles is
perhaps the most arduous
effort that confronts a de-
signer. His patron may
be a man of taste, willing
to experiment, and not
always deterred by unpro-
fitable ventures; but even
the most artistic merchant
has to face the balance-sheet
by arthur h. lee and the comments of his
sketch plan for the decoration" of a church by heywood sumner
silk and wool tapestry hanging
274
the nineties, one must not
forget the missionaries by
whose zeal and sustained
courage the battle has been
won. All can raise the
flower when all have got
the seed; but the first
sowers should be reckoned
as the most important
factors, especially when the
vigour of twenty years is
proved to be still undimin-
ished.
The exhibits by Arthur
Silver demand more than
a passing word, for by the
death of this very accom-
plished designer the applied
arts have lost a staunch
ally. To improve the level
of manufactured articles is
perhaps the most arduous
effort that confronts a de-
signer. His patron may
be a man of taste, willing
to experiment, and not
always deterred by unpro-
fitable ventures; but even
the most artistic merchant
has to face the balance-sheet
by arthur h. lee and the comments of his