DOI issue:
Nr. 102 (Septembre 1901)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The national competition, 1901
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0299
The National Competition
design for a smoker's cabinet by edith james (bradford technical college)
year's display, and though not distinguished by any
great originality of idea, maintains a very fair standard
of craftsmanship and design. A great many students
seem to have had their attention turned to this
branch of work by the tendency of fashions during
the last two seasons, and there ought to be scope
in these competitions for the design of wearing
apparel as to its general form as well as its decora-
tion. Some beautiful examples of lace are shown
by Lydia C. Hammett (Taunton), who is already
favourably known in this class, and by Lily M.
Pratt (Worcester), Lily Howie (Southport), and
Edith Emerson (Dublin). Another Taunton
student, Annie Stook, has a clever little design for
a fan muslin applique on net, and Ethel Hedgeland
(Dover) shows excellent work in a lace dress-panel
with fichu and cuffs. There seems no reason why
designers of real capacity and artistic feeling should
not be opportunists in the matter of design, and
take advantage of every phase of popular taste that
offers any chance to raise the standard of material
and decoration in attire
Battersea again takes the lead in designs for
printed muslin, in which this school was so happily
distinguished last year. The exhibit by Sarah C.
V. Jarvis only suffers from being too large and
architectural for a delicate fabric; those of Frederick
Hoare (Battersea), Robert J. Emerson (Leicester),
Fanny Eastland (Wisbech), James A. Hancox
(Mansfield), Ethel Bullock (Blackheath), Maude
R. Smith (Watford), and E. May Brown (New
panel of smoker's cabinet Cross) are full of interest and charm, and though
by edith james (bradford , , - . c ,
technical college) none of these excel the first in power ot decorative
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design for a smoker's cabinet by edith james (bradford technical college)
year's display, and though not distinguished by any
great originality of idea, maintains a very fair standard
of craftsmanship and design. A great many students
seem to have had their attention turned to this
branch of work by the tendency of fashions during
the last two seasons, and there ought to be scope
in these competitions for the design of wearing
apparel as to its general form as well as its decora-
tion. Some beautiful examples of lace are shown
by Lydia C. Hammett (Taunton), who is already
favourably known in this class, and by Lily M.
Pratt (Worcester), Lily Howie (Southport), and
Edith Emerson (Dublin). Another Taunton
student, Annie Stook, has a clever little design for
a fan muslin applique on net, and Ethel Hedgeland
(Dover) shows excellent work in a lace dress-panel
with fichu and cuffs. There seems no reason why
designers of real capacity and artistic feeling should
not be opportunists in the matter of design, and
take advantage of every phase of popular taste that
offers any chance to raise the standard of material
and decoration in attire
Battersea again takes the lead in designs for
printed muslin, in which this school was so happily
distinguished last year. The exhibit by Sarah C.
V. Jarvis only suffers from being too large and
architectural for a delicate fabric; those of Frederick
Hoare (Battersea), Robert J. Emerson (Leicester),
Fanny Eastland (Wisbech), James A. Hancox
(Mansfield), Ethel Bullock (Blackheath), Maude
R. Smith (Watford), and E. May Brown (New
panel of smoker's cabinet Cross) are full of interest and charm, and though
by edith james (bradford , , - . c ,
technical college) none of these excel the first in power ot decorative
266