The National Competition
again the details of the working drawing are admirably set
out. Screens, on the other hand, have been a little
overdone of late years by the amateur needle-woman and
flower painter, and later by the too prolific worker in repousse
metal. Yet, as their utility and decorative value are assured,
it is for the well-equipped designer to rescue them from the
standard of the charity bazaar and build and adorn them
after better models. Hilda Myers (Bradford) breaks new
ground in this direction in a striking but admirably simple
design for a folding fire-screen with embroidered panels.
The colouring of these is bold and the design full of feeling;
the gold is used with excellent judgment on a ground of
shadowy purples ; and the brown wood of the frame is
NEWEL POST
BY W. H. WILKINSON
(LEEDS)
stained smooth and left rest-
fully free of carvings or
mouldings, so as to distract
in no way from the decora-
tions within. In a quite
different manner Kate Allen
(New Cross) has adapted
the theme of an eighteenth-
century garden to an em-
broidered decoration for a
screen. This is treated on
a large scale, and demands
a spacious room or corridor
to focus it pleasantly, but
the arrangement of the
close - clipped trees, the
peacock and sundial, and
the brilliant heads of holly-
DES1GN FOR FICHU AND CUFF BY ETHEL HEDGELAND (DOVER) hocks JUSt Seen Over the
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again the details of the working drawing are admirably set
out. Screens, on the other hand, have been a little
overdone of late years by the amateur needle-woman and
flower painter, and later by the too prolific worker in repousse
metal. Yet, as their utility and decorative value are assured,
it is for the well-equipped designer to rescue them from the
standard of the charity bazaar and build and adorn them
after better models. Hilda Myers (Bradford) breaks new
ground in this direction in a striking but admirably simple
design for a folding fire-screen with embroidered panels.
The colouring of these is bold and the design full of feeling;
the gold is used with excellent judgment on a ground of
shadowy purples ; and the brown wood of the frame is
NEWEL POST
BY W. H. WILKINSON
(LEEDS)
stained smooth and left rest-
fully free of carvings or
mouldings, so as to distract
in no way from the decora-
tions within. In a quite
different manner Kate Allen
(New Cross) has adapted
the theme of an eighteenth-
century garden to an em-
broidered decoration for a
screen. This is treated on
a large scale, and demands
a spacious room or corridor
to focus it pleasantly, but
the arrangement of the
close - clipped trees, the
peacock and sundial, and
the brilliant heads of holly-
DES1GN FOR FICHU AND CUFF BY ETHEL HEDGELAND (DOVER) hocks JUSt Seen Over the
262