Studio: international art (25.1902)

Liverpool School of Art

made golden by the
sun, and for the
brightest of gay
flowers. Chaucer's
genius, indeed, like
his Squire's dress in
the Prologue to The
Canterbury Tales
" is embroidered as
it were a mede, alle
ful of freshe floures,
white & red."

A whole-hearted
return to the same
passion for colour
would do much to
counteract the injury
done to the colour-
sense by the dun-
toned dress and the
smoke-stained archi-
tecture of a com-
mercial time. The
decorative arts may
give us at home
those gladdening

harmonies of colour embroidered d'oyleys by Helena shaw

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society has ousted from our

f-^^-2^=^^^™^ ^-r,<^% I I streets. Among the art

1f/'£fes^^^=^~'" ^^^"^^^ss" \j/r ' schools there are several

F=$ \\ // jK/ \ ' that realise this fact, and
V/i *\ w OT ** 't^iat show their appre-

/// w^S^SSSc^""-! C^^^P^iV-v \\\ ciation of it in many

I /~4sl^/^'T'^ mi ways, as by an attempt to

I ( ^'^^^/fmW \ reinstate the useful art of

J Vf^^^y —^0 (^/^'ff | embroidery in a place of

i T-i-x ' ^V^'^l 1 ft) 1 honour. The embroidered

v^S^^*Sft_Ju ^3v_\ /^^^(^^^rMl/ work done by the students

V*3>ot^ <s^ of the Glass°w Scho01 is

j((h^^ Xf'-^fu f/fe^vl is ^^^^-1 / often very attractive> more

|1 Tr^'^j ^—^)^~J ^M^M^ 1 especially in its breadth of

\J^My J design and in the uncom-

l\\ \^fj(^C'^';[^ m •'(« mon effects produced by a

\\\ ^SssEf^ tir^Ss^ry^ ft skilful use of fine blues and

; IV l/i I } greens. At Liverpool, too,

\j\ fl N\ l/\ \?f. progress is being made

!' ^5,'^ ^____ ^\ 1 along the right lines. Here,

j ij^-^^^^^i--—[r n0 doubt, as in Glasgow,

: | the actual finger-craft, the

f. L-----------:—.—....._—_—_---.-_—___________ -' I • "stitchery," is sometimes

rather rude, rather uncouth

embroidered cushion cover by Frances jones and peasant-like ; but even
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