Studio: international art (38.1906)

FIG. 17. DESIGN FOR BY J. HOWARTH

WOVEN QUILTING (ROCHDALE)

copper lustre, after the traditional Staffordshire
method. Miss Preston, of Leeds, founds her dec-
oration on the hop-plant (Fig. 9) ; while slighter
and more abstract floral forms appear (Fig. 10) in
the work of Miss Myra Naylor, of the same school.

FIG. 18. DESIGN FOR BY ALICE E. HALL

STENCILLED HANGING (BURY)

The National Competition of Schools of Art

Of more obviously modern design is the jug (Fig.
11) by Miss Catherine Hibbs, of Torquay, a vessel
of brown ware, all, except the handle, coated with
cream-coloured slip, the pattern, of elfin-children
and foliage, produced by cutting down the slip to
the brown basis underneath. Two sets of glazed
tiles follow. The first set (Fig. 12) is in majolica,
the work of Mr. Machin, of Burslem, to whom the
Examiners have awarded a gold medal. The
treatment is purely conventional, masses of richly
covered floral ornament in two shades of greenish-

FIG. 19. DESIGN FOR BY GERTRUDE CHAPMAN
YOKE AND COLLAR (DOVER)

blue, skilfully contrasted with the plain spaces of the
background. All the outlines in this pattern, as
also in the next described, are of moulded relief,
with slightly sunk matrices or casements between,
somewhat after the principle of champleve enamel
woik. Mr. R. Gill, ot Poole Hill School, Bourne-
mouth, exhibits, side by side with his tiles actually
executed, a drawing of a mantel and fireplace,
showing how he proposes that they should be used.
Of the tiles themselves (Fig. 13) two separate
units go to make up the complete design, which is
an excellent drop pattern of trees in two shades of
green, with pairs of blue birds perched amid the
foliage.

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