Studio: international art (17.1899)

The National Competition

whose admirable work we meet again in other
sections. Its leading features are a mediaeval
castle and a decoration of grapes making a com-
position wonderfully dignified and old-world in
spirit, without being merely imitative of Morris
or Madox Brown. In the wall-papers and printed
textiles there is really nothing to remark. A
ceiling-design by Jennie Delahunt, of Manches-
ter, for which she receives the Princess of Wales’s
Scholarship of ^25, must not be overlooked.
The second scholarship under the same trust is

DESIGN FOR A BROOCH BY BERNARD L. CUZNER

{Birmingham, Vittoria Street)

DESIGN FOR A BROOCH

BY BERNARD L. CUZNER
(.Birmingham, Vittoria Street)

DESIGN FOR SILVER TOAST-RACK

BY MAUDE M. ACKERY {New Cross)

DESIGN FOR SILVER TOAST-RACK

awarded to Edith Olga Armour, of Battersea, for a
design for printed muslin which is very dainty and
bright. Beside this we may set the beautiful lace-
designs of Lydia C. Hammett, of Taunton, who
in the exquisite little d’oyley we illustrate seems
to have realised the most
that can be done with this
fine and almost fairylike
handicraft. In damask
table-linen we have a much
neglected branch of design,
which it is pleasing to see
attempted by students at
Clapham, Belfast, Salford,
Nottingham, Macclesfield,
Lydney, Cork, Padiham,
Hammersmith, Burnley,
and the Royal College of
Art. The work of Mary
D. Baxter, of Clapham, is
the most distinguished in
this group ; she succeeds in
making a flat decoration
pleasant and interesting
even when seen from op-
posite points of view. The

by MAUDE M. ACKERY (New Cross)

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