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COPPER DISH

DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY FRED CROOK

Yattendon Class

DISH

DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY H. BRANSDEN
Yattendon Class

designer or organiser
might be of great
service during the
coming year. The
vigorous little classes
at Southwark — Red
Cross and Bankside,

S.E.—are hampered
by the same problem.

It must be admitted
that some of the best
work in wood, metal,
and leather is done
from stock designs
which come as old

friends to the annual reunion. Only those
who have struggled with mixed classes of
beginners know the
difficulty of getting
original forms or
decorations from
the students them-
selves. In the pre-
sent state of indus-
trial art, a new idea
—which should be
the starting-point of
every creation — is
the last thing at-
tained even by the
skilled and intelli-
gent mechanic; and
this defect is not
covered by sacri-
ficing quality to
variety, and giving

beginners too much
licence, either in the
invention or the
choice of a task.

The more experienced
teachers have frankly
recognised this, and
with admirable
modesty and good
sense have restricted
their pupils to copying good models,
existing in public collections or supplied
by competent modern designers. It
requires no little judgment to apportion
these in such order as to make for
genuine progress in the class; in short,
to circulate set designs
among average stu-

PLAQUE

DESIGNED BY MISS WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY GEORGE LOADER
Yattendon Class

COPPER JAR DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY JOHN FISHER

Yattendon Class

DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY H. BRANSDEN

Yattendon Class

VASE
DESIGNED BY

MRS. WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY

HARRY SMITH
Yattendon Class

DESIGNED BY MRS. WATERHOUSE AND

AMYAS WATERHOUSE
EXECUTED BY harry smith Yattendon Class