DOI issue:
Nr 76 (July 1899)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The home arts and industries exhibition
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0123
Home Arts and Industries
Another very attractive fender
came from the Keswick class,
and illustrated very happily the
proper use of natural forms in
decoration. It was of flat
pierced brass, with three cats
couchant — as the heraldists
would have it—broadly out-
lined in the cutting. This
fender, admirably constructed
by Joseph Spark, is from a
design by Harold Stabler, to
whom further praise is due for
three beautiful hot-water jugs,
which we illustrate, made in
hammered brass and copper
by Thomas Spark.
In designing for pewter and
for somewhat heavier appli-
cations of brass and copper,
John Williams is still the
tutelary genius of Five-mile-
town. The designs of so able
and judicious an artist must
be invaluable alike to the
novice and to the more ad-
vanced craftsmen, for they
have a breadth and dignity
of line which cannot fail to
react well upon the growing
style of the executant. The
EMBROIDERED PANEL
Haslemere Class
exhibits of this prolific little
Irish community included a
very pleasing copy of an old
lantern by Patrick Roche, a
door-plate in hammered cop-
per by Thomas Adams, the
plaque in hammered brass
above referred to, from a de-
sign of mushrooms by John
Williams, executed by J. B.
Wilson, and a number of mugs,
candlesticks, and other light
decorative furniture by Robert
Mitchell, W. J. Walker, T. Cum-
berland, and Arthur Adams.
In the Christchurch class J.
Early showed some simple but
unconventional sconces with
hanging extinguishers in ham-
mered brass. There was very
little wrought-iron work; the
best was by Edward and Ernest
Edwards, of East Wretham,
Norfolk.
In the wood-carving classes
held under the Kent County
Council in ten villages, the
difficulty as to design was
very apparent. The work
was prolific and ambitious, but
poor in ideas. A visiting
INLAID PANEL DESIGNED BY THE HON. MABEL DE GREY
INLAID BY LEWIS FORD
Pimlico Class
IOI
Another very attractive fender
came from the Keswick class,
and illustrated very happily the
proper use of natural forms in
decoration. It was of flat
pierced brass, with three cats
couchant — as the heraldists
would have it—broadly out-
lined in the cutting. This
fender, admirably constructed
by Joseph Spark, is from a
design by Harold Stabler, to
whom further praise is due for
three beautiful hot-water jugs,
which we illustrate, made in
hammered brass and copper
by Thomas Spark.
In designing for pewter and
for somewhat heavier appli-
cations of brass and copper,
John Williams is still the
tutelary genius of Five-mile-
town. The designs of so able
and judicious an artist must
be invaluable alike to the
novice and to the more ad-
vanced craftsmen, for they
have a breadth and dignity
of line which cannot fail to
react well upon the growing
style of the executant. The
EMBROIDERED PANEL
Haslemere Class
exhibits of this prolific little
Irish community included a
very pleasing copy of an old
lantern by Patrick Roche, a
door-plate in hammered cop-
per by Thomas Adams, the
plaque in hammered brass
above referred to, from a de-
sign of mushrooms by John
Williams, executed by J. B.
Wilson, and a number of mugs,
candlesticks, and other light
decorative furniture by Robert
Mitchell, W. J. Walker, T. Cum-
berland, and Arthur Adams.
In the Christchurch class J.
Early showed some simple but
unconventional sconces with
hanging extinguishers in ham-
mered brass. There was very
little wrought-iron work; the
best was by Edward and Ernest
Edwards, of East Wretham,
Norfolk.
In the wood-carving classes
held under the Kent County
Council in ten villages, the
difficulty as to design was
very apparent. The work
was prolific and ambitious, but
poor in ideas. A visiting
INLAID PANEL DESIGNED BY THE HON. MABEL DE GREY
INLAID BY LEWIS FORD
Pimlico Class
IOI