Studio: international art (25.1902)

Liverpool School of A rt

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embroidery—a branch ot decorative art which has
a real value in all homes, and which serves a very
useful purpose in the education of art-students
by the influence it has on the sense of colour.
Nothing is more likely to foster a love for gayness
and richness of tone, for splendid harmonies of
glad bright colours. A love for such harmonies
was common in England before the Puritans
decided that nothing in their everyday life should

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rival in brightness the flames of that eternal
punishment over which they brooded with gloomy
determination. With the slow decline of their
power over the public mind of England, there
has come a rather timid harking back to the old
delight in gay pageants and in radiant colours ; a
rather timid harking back, for the grayness of
modern life in England is still very much at variance
with the enthusiasm that Chaucer expresses for red

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