Studio: international art (15.1899)

Arts and Crafts at Manchester

Crane ; on cotton-printing, by Lewis F. Day; on
pottery, by William Burton ; on weaving, by Henry
Cadness; on printing, by H. C. D. Chorlton; on
architecture, by F. Foster ; on enamels, by Robert
Hilton; and on various other decorative and
technical questions, by Reginald Barber, Richard
Glazier, Walter J. Pearce, James Smithies, and
Edgar Wood. In a distinctively " cotton " district
such as Manchester, it would have been encourag-
ing to see some application of the principles so
admirably laid down by Mr. Day for modern
textile design—some effort to bring the inevitable
roller-printing within the touch of genuine art. It
was disappointing to find so few of the younger
guildsmen or guildswomen at work in this field;
but the poverty of the exhibits may be due to the
peculiar difficulties which the factory system in the
North of England has throughout this century
imposed upon the textile designer.

In furniture of the more substantial kind, the
oak settle and sycamore bureau by Edgar Wood

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illustrated in the September number of The
Studio, and the oak sideboard and sycamore
bedstead by the same designer, were among the

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most conspicuous and successful features of the
exhibition. In our illustration of the sideboard,
the yellowish tone of the wood has unfortunately
so darkened the photograph as to throw the white
inlay into disproportionate relief. In the original,
this inlaid design of lilies takes a subordinate and
agreeable place in the decorative scheme. The
chief beauty of the sideboard lies in its metal-