DOI Heft:
No. 112 (July, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The Home Arts and Industries Association
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0145
Home Arts and Industries
and its ornaments, now showed the first-fruits of
their efforts at gesso panelling. Four full-length
subjects from Mrs. Watts's designs, though still
unfinished, gave a very favourable impression of
the scope and seriousness of the work. The angel-
figures are standing alternately back and face to
the spectator as if " circle-wise," and the curves of
the gold fillets that link them give to their rich
but sober colouring the added interest of line.
The terra-cotta vases and decorative reliefs for
various parts of the building are full of the deli-
cate imagination and fine technique that we have
grown to expect from Mrs. Watts and her pupils.
The chief of the "developed industries" in kindred
material is the Birkenhead school of pottery under
Mr. Harold Rathbone, which always shows a
considerable amount of work on these occasions.
Church pottery, panels, wall-fountains and devo-
tional objects, to which the "Delia Robbia"
method lends itself so well, form an increasingly
mportant element in the work of this school.
Embossed and tooled leather work has been
brought to a high pitch of excellence in several
of the " Home Arts " classes, notably at Leighton
Buzzard and Porlock Weir. At this last centre,
the good traditions so admirably set and main-
tained for ten years by the late Miss Baker are
being worthily carried on by her sister, Mrs.
Cunninghame. Exhibits by Philip Burgess and
others showed highly finished workmanship and
intelligent feeling for the material. At Leighton
Buzzard the work of Minnie King, J. Mercy, and
a young and very promising craftsman, Herbert
Metcalf, was especially commendable. J. Mercy's
little note-book, with the grape design, might serve
as an object-lesson in the application of colour.
Among the textiles are always to be found some
of the best examples of the Association's work.
It is not too much to say that the Windermere
weaving industry is producing some of the most
beautiful fabrics now made in this country, and
the mixtures of silk and linen, which are so dis-
tinctive a feature of the work for charm of texture
and surface, were this year more than ever pleasing
in the matter of colour. Under these conditions
the plain self-coloured stuffs were so satisfying to
the eye as to make pattern seem superfluous; but
some very excellent patterns were also on view,
'THE VALKYRIE" UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO DESIGNED BY LEONARD WYBURD
EXECUTED BY MESSRS, J. AND J. HOPKINSON, LTD.
(See London Studio- Talk)
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and its ornaments, now showed the first-fruits of
their efforts at gesso panelling. Four full-length
subjects from Mrs. Watts's designs, though still
unfinished, gave a very favourable impression of
the scope and seriousness of the work. The angel-
figures are standing alternately back and face to
the spectator as if " circle-wise," and the curves of
the gold fillets that link them give to their rich
but sober colouring the added interest of line.
The terra-cotta vases and decorative reliefs for
various parts of the building are full of the deli-
cate imagination and fine technique that we have
grown to expect from Mrs. Watts and her pupils.
The chief of the "developed industries" in kindred
material is the Birkenhead school of pottery under
Mr. Harold Rathbone, which always shows a
considerable amount of work on these occasions.
Church pottery, panels, wall-fountains and devo-
tional objects, to which the "Delia Robbia"
method lends itself so well, form an increasingly
mportant element in the work of this school.
Embossed and tooled leather work has been
brought to a high pitch of excellence in several
of the " Home Arts " classes, notably at Leighton
Buzzard and Porlock Weir. At this last centre,
the good traditions so admirably set and main-
tained for ten years by the late Miss Baker are
being worthily carried on by her sister, Mrs.
Cunninghame. Exhibits by Philip Burgess and
others showed highly finished workmanship and
intelligent feeling for the material. At Leighton
Buzzard the work of Minnie King, J. Mercy, and
a young and very promising craftsman, Herbert
Metcalf, was especially commendable. J. Mercy's
little note-book, with the grape design, might serve
as an object-lesson in the application of colour.
Among the textiles are always to be found some
of the best examples of the Association's work.
It is not too much to say that the Windermere
weaving industry is producing some of the most
beautiful fabrics now made in this country, and
the mixtures of silk and linen, which are so dis-
tinctive a feature of the work for charm of texture
and surface, were this year more than ever pleasing
in the matter of colour. Under these conditions
the plain self-coloured stuffs were so satisfying to
the eye as to make pattern seem superfluous; but
some very excellent patterns were also on view,
'THE VALKYRIE" UPRIGHT GRAND PIANO DESIGNED BY LEONARD WYBURD
EXECUTED BY MESSRS, J. AND J. HOPKINSON, LTD.
(See London Studio- Talk)
*33