DOI Heft:
No. 52 (July, 1897)
DOI Artikel:The Home Arts and Industries Association at the Royal Albert Hall, 1897
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0129
Home Arts and Industries
and its teacher, the worker's
age, and the time he (or she)
has been in training, with a
variety of other details, a
most important point—the
source of the design—is too
often entirely ignored. It
would be better if, in the
comparatively few cases
where the manipulator has
also designed the article, a
label of distinct colour
should be employed, so as
to distinguish at a glance ori-
ginal from derived patterns.
Perhaps the most novel
examples in the whole Ex-
hibition were some bold and
simply embroidered pieces
of applique-work after de-
i'anel of fender, designed by john wii.liams signs by Mr. Godfrey Blount.
executed BY patrick roche, Fivemiktown ^ mQre elabomte are jfl^
trated here (pages 112 & 113),
amples, constraint in design, which, compared with but others of extreme simplicity were no less good,
the average of even five years ago, is well marked. Mr. Harold Rathbone had an immense display
Owing to the absence of a catalogue, and the of "Delia Robbia" pottery, which this year consisted
difficulty of discovering, among many others that chiefly of ash-trays, porridge-bowls, plates, cups,
each card of description bears on its surface, the vases, and other domestic items for use and orna-
items of information that interest an outsider, mis- ment. Larger pieces were also present, but the chief
takes are certain to creep into the best-intentioned interest centred in the smaller objects. The decora-
report. Last year by a pen-slip Kirby-Lonsdale tion was varied, and the colour pleasant in itself,
was credited with many things praiseworthy, and if sometimes in a less rich key than one is accus-
warned of certain dangers concerning others; tomed to look for on glazed pottery. In a few cases
when all the time Leighton-Buzzard was both the of adaptation from published designs, one felt that
real hero and the real culprit. Among the multi- the source should be openly acknowledged. This
tude of facts on every label concerning the class suggestion applies to two or three vases of " Delia
fender. designed BY m. and j. williams
executed by james lawrence and george kemp, Newton
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and its teacher, the worker's
age, and the time he (or she)
has been in training, with a
variety of other details, a
most important point—the
source of the design—is too
often entirely ignored. It
would be better if, in the
comparatively few cases
where the manipulator has
also designed the article, a
label of distinct colour
should be employed, so as
to distinguish at a glance ori-
ginal from derived patterns.
Perhaps the most novel
examples in the whole Ex-
hibition were some bold and
simply embroidered pieces
of applique-work after de-
i'anel of fender, designed by john wii.liams signs by Mr. Godfrey Blount.
executed BY patrick roche, Fivemiktown ^ mQre elabomte are jfl^
trated here (pages 112 & 113),
amples, constraint in design, which, compared with but others of extreme simplicity were no less good,
the average of even five years ago, is well marked. Mr. Harold Rathbone had an immense display
Owing to the absence of a catalogue, and the of "Delia Robbia" pottery, which this year consisted
difficulty of discovering, among many others that chiefly of ash-trays, porridge-bowls, plates, cups,
each card of description bears on its surface, the vases, and other domestic items for use and orna-
items of information that interest an outsider, mis- ment. Larger pieces were also present, but the chief
takes are certain to creep into the best-intentioned interest centred in the smaller objects. The decora-
report. Last year by a pen-slip Kirby-Lonsdale tion was varied, and the colour pleasant in itself,
was credited with many things praiseworthy, and if sometimes in a less rich key than one is accus-
warned of certain dangers concerning others; tomed to look for on glazed pottery. In a few cases
when all the time Leighton-Buzzard was both the of adaptation from published designs, one felt that
real hero and the real culprit. Among the multi- the source should be openly acknowledged. This
tude of facts on every label concerning the class suggestion applies to two or three vases of " Delia
fender. designed BY m. and j. williams
executed by james lawrence and george kemp, Newton
1 I I