DOI issue:
No. 177 (December, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0254
Studio- Talk
twelve months or so have figured at one or other pattern, she shows herself an appreciator of the
of our minor exhibitions. The craft is a fascinating best secrets of her craft. This careful valuing
one, and continues year by year to attract a fresh of the leather space is well shown in the binding
supply of students. That which attracts them— of Tennyson's Poems. Restraint and simplicity
the pleasure of conceiving something and making characterise the work of Mrs. Pearson-Gee, whose
it themselves, lies also at the root of the attraction bindings here reproduced we were pleased to see
which the finished work offers to the collector, at a recent exhibition at Messrs. Carfax's, and
The individual handling of the tools imparts to the it is these qualities which give to her work the
work just those particular
qualities which are absent
if the same design is carried
out by a machine. Another
fact to be appreciated is
that the book - designer's
tools exercise a restraint
which prevents his design
from straying so far into
the realms of ugliness as
is possible in some other
crafts. In the work of the
leading modern book-
binders there is to be noted
a true perception of what
is required, and under their
guidance a school has arisen
with the purest aims before
them. The bookbindings
of Miss K. Adams, two
diverse examples of which
are here reproduced, pro- bookbinding by j. s. h. bates
claim her to be a designer
of fancy and refinement, a precise and skilful charm it undoubtedly possesses. She does not
worker. By choosing a simple motif and by allow her design to compete with the pleasant
setting a right value upon the spaces of leather qualities inherent in the material upon which she
which fall into the design behind the gold works; on the contrary the design is made to
emphasise these qualities.
Mr. J. S. Bates's work,
though scarcely so original,,
is none the less highly
skilful, and is at the same
time happy in design. He
has regard for the valuer
of a design, dividing the
leather into panels relieving
the details of the pattern.
The same remarks apply
largely to the work of Mr.
F. D. Rye. Messrs. San-
gorski and Sutcliffe lay great
stress on the constructive
side of their work, basing
their technique upon that
of early binding in prefer-
bookbinding by f. d. rye ence to that of the present
twelve months or so have figured at one or other pattern, she shows herself an appreciator of the
of our minor exhibitions. The craft is a fascinating best secrets of her craft. This careful valuing
one, and continues year by year to attract a fresh of the leather space is well shown in the binding
supply of students. That which attracts them— of Tennyson's Poems. Restraint and simplicity
the pleasure of conceiving something and making characterise the work of Mrs. Pearson-Gee, whose
it themselves, lies also at the root of the attraction bindings here reproduced we were pleased to see
which the finished work offers to the collector, at a recent exhibition at Messrs. Carfax's, and
The individual handling of the tools imparts to the it is these qualities which give to her work the
work just those particular
qualities which are absent
if the same design is carried
out by a machine. Another
fact to be appreciated is
that the book - designer's
tools exercise a restraint
which prevents his design
from straying so far into
the realms of ugliness as
is possible in some other
crafts. In the work of the
leading modern book-
binders there is to be noted
a true perception of what
is required, and under their
guidance a school has arisen
with the purest aims before
them. The bookbindings
of Miss K. Adams, two
diverse examples of which
are here reproduced, pro- bookbinding by j. s. h. bates
claim her to be a designer
of fancy and refinement, a precise and skilful charm it undoubtedly possesses. She does not
worker. By choosing a simple motif and by allow her design to compete with the pleasant
setting a right value upon the spaces of leather qualities inherent in the material upon which she
which fall into the design behind the gold works; on the contrary the design is made to
emphasise these qualities.
Mr. J. S. Bates's work,
though scarcely so original,,
is none the less highly
skilful, and is at the same
time happy in design. He
has regard for the valuer
of a design, dividing the
leather into panels relieving
the details of the pattern.
The same remarks apply
largely to the work of Mr.
F. D. Rye. Messrs. San-
gorski and Sutcliffe lay great
stress on the constructive
side of their work, basing
their technique upon that
of early binding in prefer-
bookbinding by f. d. rye ence to that of the present