The National Competition
mentioned. A glove box
in tooled leather by Sarah
A. Plant (Wolverhampton)
shows excellent craftsman-
ship, and a fine sense of
suitability in decoration.
One of the most graceful
and poetic designs for
book - covers is, unfortun-
ately, not carried out in
leather but only modelled
in plaster. It modestly
appears as a “design based
on a flowering plant,” but is
inscribed to cover “Words-
worth’s Poems.” It is by
Thomas Cartwright (Mac-
clesfield). Other interest-
ing book-covers, “with
specimens in material,” are design for table centre by paul arndt (battersea polytechnic)
BY w. H. PEGG
(NOTTINGHAM, QUEEN’S WALK)
by William Mellor (Manchester) and Ethel Slater
(Leeds); and there is an excellent little group of
cover-designs by May E. Purser (New Cross) for
“A City of Towers,” “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,”
and “ Rambles Round Essex.”
One welcomes again the vigorous and beautiful
decorative landscapes in stencil by which Ethel
DESIGN FOR PRINTED TILE
DESIGN FOR
LACE CURTAIN
BY IVO SHAW (LINCOLN)
mentioned. A glove box
in tooled leather by Sarah
A. Plant (Wolverhampton)
shows excellent craftsman-
ship, and a fine sense of
suitability in decoration.
One of the most graceful
and poetic designs for
book - covers is, unfortun-
ately, not carried out in
leather but only modelled
in plaster. It modestly
appears as a “design based
on a flowering plant,” but is
inscribed to cover “Words-
worth’s Poems.” It is by
Thomas Cartwright (Mac-
clesfield). Other interest-
ing book-covers, “with
specimens in material,” are design for table centre by paul arndt (battersea polytechnic)
BY w. H. PEGG
(NOTTINGHAM, QUEEN’S WALK)
by William Mellor (Manchester) and Ethel Slater
(Leeds); and there is an excellent little group of
cover-designs by May E. Purser (New Cross) for
“A City of Towers,” “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,”
and “ Rambles Round Essex.”
One welcomes again the vigorous and beautiful
decorative landscapes in stencil by which Ethel
DESIGN FOR PRINTED TILE
DESIGN FOR
LACE CURTAIN
BY IVO SHAW (LINCOLN)