DOI issue:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0153
Studio-Talk
Mr. Reginald Dick, whose designs of various
kinds are known to readers of The Studio, has
also worked a great deal in raising the level of this
delightful art out of the slough into which it had
fallen. Some of the most graceful instances of
this are his fans, here reproduced in black-and-
white, but which need the opposing force of colour
to do them justice. They are worked on silk gauze,
and are not less dainty in pattern than in material—
indeed the lightness of the motives and the flowing
freedom of the lines carry out excellently well the
air-provoking idea.___
The designs are very studied as to the special
necessities of a fan, and make good lines even
when not entirely open. Mr. Dick's stencil-work
is of the orthodox kind; it is pure pattern, and
assumes that it might be all worked from one plate,
though as a matter of fact they are really cut in
several; but no colour is laid one upon another,
and the sense of intervening boundaries insists
upon itself as completely as in the Maze at
Hampton Court.
These airy, graceful toys of Mr. Dick's
invention take us a long way from the
ordinary decorator's stencil, and from those
pathetically disregarded legends of the packing-
case, "This side up, with care."
N. G.
STENCILLED FANS
BY REGINALD DICK
129
Mr. Reginald Dick, whose designs of various
kinds are known to readers of The Studio, has
also worked a great deal in raising the level of this
delightful art out of the slough into which it had
fallen. Some of the most graceful instances of
this are his fans, here reproduced in black-and-
white, but which need the opposing force of colour
to do them justice. They are worked on silk gauze,
and are not less dainty in pattern than in material—
indeed the lightness of the motives and the flowing
freedom of the lines carry out excellently well the
air-provoking idea.___
The designs are very studied as to the special
necessities of a fan, and make good lines even
when not entirely open. Mr. Dick's stencil-work
is of the orthodox kind; it is pure pattern, and
assumes that it might be all worked from one plate,
though as a matter of fact they are really cut in
several; but no colour is laid one upon another,
and the sense of intervening boundaries insists
upon itself as completely as in the Maze at
Hampton Court.
These airy, graceful toys of Mr. Dick's
invention take us a long way from the
ordinary decorator's stencil, and from those
pathetically disregarded legends of the packing-
case, "This side up, with care."
N. G.
STENCILLED FANS
BY REGINALD DICK
129