DOI issue:
No. 56 (November, 1897)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0150
Studio- Talk
on familiar lines. Mr. G. T. Bagguley in his
"Sunderland Decoration" has introduced an inno-
vation of real importance. Hitherto colour decora-
tion has been applied to leather-binding either by
painting or staining, by inlaying, or by embroidery*
Now Mr. Bagguley tools the pattern itself in
brilliant permanent colours, which (especially on a
vellum ground with gold freely used) produce an
effect at once dainty, delicate, and beautiful.
But if to experts the method is surprisingly
novel, to the general reader the designs have
even greater interest from their intrinsic charm.
Being greatly reduced, and lacking the variety
of colour which is at once their chief novelty and
greatest value, the illustrations here given fail
perhaps to suggest all that the originals deserve.
The designs by Mr. Leon Solon were made
especially for the particular volumes they adorn,
and Mr. Bagguley has had new tools cut for each,
and so far has not made new combinations of the
motives, but started each fresh pattern with a com-
pletely new series of tools.
All these intricate patterns, most ingenious
and beautiful in themselves, are pure hand-tooling,
and each dot or tiny detail, each leaf or line, is
impressed in colour exactly as gold is applied in
a vision" p.y albert toft
fancy ; and A Vision, a striking conception of the a
head of a young girl. Two others of his works, ]
Invocation and Spring, have already appeared in
special numbers of The Studio. The latter, a
small plaster slightly touched with colour, which f
was exhibited in this year's Academy—probably
the best thing he has yet done—has been purchased
for the permanent collection of the Corporation A
Art Gallery. His portraits of Mr. Gladstone,
Mark Hombourg, Cuninghame Graham, and a
fine head of an old man, The Sere and Yellow Leaf,
well represented the more realistic side of this 1
versatile young sculptor's art.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME.— J
book-binding is a most conservative
(-raft, and although the last few years
have seen several recruits, notably
Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, who have
extended its design, and one, Miss MacColl, who
has introduced a distinctly new method of " tooling," bookbinding, "sunderland decoration
the chief binders abroad as well as at home proceed after a " le gascon '* design
i 2 2
on familiar lines. Mr. G. T. Bagguley in his
"Sunderland Decoration" has introduced an inno-
vation of real importance. Hitherto colour decora-
tion has been applied to leather-binding either by
painting or staining, by inlaying, or by embroidery*
Now Mr. Bagguley tools the pattern itself in
brilliant permanent colours, which (especially on a
vellum ground with gold freely used) produce an
effect at once dainty, delicate, and beautiful.
But if to experts the method is surprisingly
novel, to the general reader the designs have
even greater interest from their intrinsic charm.
Being greatly reduced, and lacking the variety
of colour which is at once their chief novelty and
greatest value, the illustrations here given fail
perhaps to suggest all that the originals deserve.
The designs by Mr. Leon Solon were made
especially for the particular volumes they adorn,
and Mr. Bagguley has had new tools cut for each,
and so far has not made new combinations of the
motives, but started each fresh pattern with a com-
pletely new series of tools.
All these intricate patterns, most ingenious
and beautiful in themselves, are pure hand-tooling,
and each dot or tiny detail, each leaf or line, is
impressed in colour exactly as gold is applied in
a vision" p.y albert toft
fancy ; and A Vision, a striking conception of the a
head of a young girl. Two others of his works, ]
Invocation and Spring, have already appeared in
special numbers of The Studio. The latter, a
small plaster slightly touched with colour, which f
was exhibited in this year's Academy—probably
the best thing he has yet done—has been purchased
for the permanent collection of the Corporation A
Art Gallery. His portraits of Mr. Gladstone,
Mark Hombourg, Cuninghame Graham, and a
fine head of an old man, The Sere and Yellow Leaf,
well represented the more realistic side of this 1
versatile young sculptor's art.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME.— J
book-binding is a most conservative
(-raft, and although the last few years
have seen several recruits, notably
Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, who have
extended its design, and one, Miss MacColl, who
has introduced a distinctly new method of " tooling," bookbinding, "sunderland decoration
the chief binders abroad as well as at home proceed after a " le gascon '* design
i 2 2