Studio: international art (14.1898)

Studio-Talk

Manches-

TER.-
Some two
years ago
the art
workers of Manchester and
district formed themselves
into a Guild with the object
of stimulating higher aims,
and bringing together the
miscellaneous handicrafts
which down to that time
had had no common bond
or aim in their results.
This object of uniting and
developing a common motij
to a large number of dis-
connected workers was the
principal object of the Guild,
but beyond that it had also
several other aims hardly
less important.

It had been more or less
strongly realised that in
the Manchester district the settle by edgar wood

handicrafts had not received
fair recognition or acknow-
ledgment, and that whatever improvement in this recognised that social gatherings amongst them-
respect was to take place the initiative must selves would be of great assistance to all, that
come from the workers themselves. It was also sympathy and encouragement would naturally

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BY JAMES SMITHIES