DOI Heft:
No. 88 (July, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0137
Studio- Talk
STENCILLED PRINT DESIGNED BY HUGH WALLIS
Much of the charm of Mr. Wallis's clever
designs has been inevitably lost in their
translation into black and white, but if the
colour has gone the decorative sentiment
remains, and Mr. Wallis is clearly an able
craftsman.
His method of work is more suitable for
decoratively pictorial effects than for repeated
ornament and we may say that the coloured
portions, other than the dark lines, are washed
in by hand or stencilled in the ordinary
manner. For the rest, Mr. Wallis's process is
one which may be employed for a good many
useful purposes, as for bookplates, Christmas
cards, pictorial friezes for the nursery, tile
designs, panels; and we see no reason why it
should not be successfully applied to various
grounds of wood and canvas.
E. W.
N'' EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—The con-
ditions of Northumberland and Durham
are not perhaps favourable to the de-
velopment of home handicrafts. In-
dustrial enterprise—agriculture, mining, engineer-
ing and shipbuilding—is all on a big scale. And
the people, if hard-working, are wTell paid. At a
meeting held in Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 12th
May, however, at which Earl Grey presided, it was
unanimously resolved by influential persons that it
is desirable to establish a Handicrafts Guild for
the object of stimulating an interest in art work
among all classes by directing attention to such
handicrafts as will add to the beauty of the home.
A council was also appointed to consider the
details of a scheme. Canon Rawnsley, who can
speak from long experience, deprecated county
movements for art handicraft, declaring the county
area to be too small for criticism, comparison or
standard. "You speak of supplying designs," he
wrote; "it is as unkind a thing as you can do. Let
the villages, or the workers, hammer away at their
own idea or design." This is surely a " counsel of
perfection," and one is inclined to ask whether the
Keswick School of Craftwork would have come
into being if the folk with winter leisure in that
place had been left to hammer away by themselves.
At any rate, the movement inaugurated by Earl
Grey, Mr. C. W. Mitchell and their friends should,
DESIGN FOR A LACE CURTAIN BY JOSEPH ELSE
(See Nottingham Studio- Talk J
T13
STENCILLED PRINT DESIGNED BY HUGH WALLIS
Much of the charm of Mr. Wallis's clever
designs has been inevitably lost in their
translation into black and white, but if the
colour has gone the decorative sentiment
remains, and Mr. Wallis is clearly an able
craftsman.
His method of work is more suitable for
decoratively pictorial effects than for repeated
ornament and we may say that the coloured
portions, other than the dark lines, are washed
in by hand or stencilled in the ordinary
manner. For the rest, Mr. Wallis's process is
one which may be employed for a good many
useful purposes, as for bookplates, Christmas
cards, pictorial friezes for the nursery, tile
designs, panels; and we see no reason why it
should not be successfully applied to various
grounds of wood and canvas.
E. W.
N'' EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—The con-
ditions of Northumberland and Durham
are not perhaps favourable to the de-
velopment of home handicrafts. In-
dustrial enterprise—agriculture, mining, engineer-
ing and shipbuilding—is all on a big scale. And
the people, if hard-working, are wTell paid. At a
meeting held in Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 12th
May, however, at which Earl Grey presided, it was
unanimously resolved by influential persons that it
is desirable to establish a Handicrafts Guild for
the object of stimulating an interest in art work
among all classes by directing attention to such
handicrafts as will add to the beauty of the home.
A council was also appointed to consider the
details of a scheme. Canon Rawnsley, who can
speak from long experience, deprecated county
movements for art handicraft, declaring the county
area to be too small for criticism, comparison or
standard. "You speak of supplying designs," he
wrote; "it is as unkind a thing as you can do. Let
the villages, or the workers, hammer away at their
own idea or design." This is surely a " counsel of
perfection," and one is inclined to ask whether the
Keswick School of Craftwork would have come
into being if the folk with winter leisure in that
place had been left to hammer away by themselves.
At any rate, the movement inaugurated by Earl
Grey, Mr. C. W. Mitchell and their friends should,
DESIGN FOR A LACE CURTAIN BY JOSEPH ELSE
(See Nottingham Studio- Talk J
T13