DOI Heft:
Nr. 182 (May 1908)
DOI Artikel:Art school notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0360
Art School Notes
Mr. Catterson Smith, looks
forward to seeing them a
permanent feature of the
sessional programme. He
is convinced, and most
people will share his con-
viction, that lectures of this
kind ought to bring about
an improvement in taste
and judgment, and with
him we should like to see
them part of the regular
curriculum at all secondary
schools.
Haslemere.—
The revival of
handicraft at
Haslemere,
and especially the introduction there of the hand-
loom, owes its inspiration principally to that unique
personality, Mr. Godfrey Blount. At his house,
St. Cross, a dozen or so of village girls are taught
to weave at the hand-loom. Peasant tapestry
(applique), hand-woven pile carpets and tapestry
carpets are worked by well-trained hands here.
These are sold either at the shop of the Peasant
Arts Society in the High Street, Haslemere, or at
the London Depdt of this Society, which was
founded by Mr. Blount in 1896 at 83, New
Cavendish Street, W. Mr. Godfrey Blount is
largely responsible for the exquisite designs, though
HAND-LOOM WORKERS AT ST. CROSS, HASLEMERE
Mrs. Blount often suggests the harmonies in colour,
and besides teaching the girls, herself weaves at
the hand looms. The great difficulty at Haslemere
has been that of trying to wed cheapness to beauty,
and the sacrilegious nail in furniture making has
been an innovation of quite recent years. The
Spinning Wheel, as shown in the photograph, is
not often used. _
The Haslemere Weaving Industry was founded
in 1894 by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph King, and is
really a branch of the Peasant Arts Society. Miss
Jones manages this Industry, and many ladies who
have desired to set up
hand-looms of their own
and weave on their own
account have been pupils
under Miss Jones. One
large fly-shuttle is used
here besides the ordinary
hand-looms, and from the
flax obtained from Ireland
the girls weave cotton for
the making of frocks, pina-
fores, towels, etc. This is
altogether a larger work-
shop than the one at St.
Cross, and is certainly cne
of the most artistic build-
ings in Haslemere.
WEAVING-ROOM OF HASLEMERE WEAVING INDUSTRY
I suppose that the most
delicate and finished work
in weaving at Haslemere is
done at the St. Edmunds-
34i
Mr. Catterson Smith, looks
forward to seeing them a
permanent feature of the
sessional programme. He
is convinced, and most
people will share his con-
viction, that lectures of this
kind ought to bring about
an improvement in taste
and judgment, and with
him we should like to see
them part of the regular
curriculum at all secondary
schools.
Haslemere.—
The revival of
handicraft at
Haslemere,
and especially the introduction there of the hand-
loom, owes its inspiration principally to that unique
personality, Mr. Godfrey Blount. At his house,
St. Cross, a dozen or so of village girls are taught
to weave at the hand-loom. Peasant tapestry
(applique), hand-woven pile carpets and tapestry
carpets are worked by well-trained hands here.
These are sold either at the shop of the Peasant
Arts Society in the High Street, Haslemere, or at
the London Depdt of this Society, which was
founded by Mr. Blount in 1896 at 83, New
Cavendish Street, W. Mr. Godfrey Blount is
largely responsible for the exquisite designs, though
HAND-LOOM WORKERS AT ST. CROSS, HASLEMERE
Mrs. Blount often suggests the harmonies in colour,
and besides teaching the girls, herself weaves at
the hand looms. The great difficulty at Haslemere
has been that of trying to wed cheapness to beauty,
and the sacrilegious nail in furniture making has
been an innovation of quite recent years. The
Spinning Wheel, as shown in the photograph, is
not often used. _
The Haslemere Weaving Industry was founded
in 1894 by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph King, and is
really a branch of the Peasant Arts Society. Miss
Jones manages this Industry, and many ladies who
have desired to set up
hand-looms of their own
and weave on their own
account have been pupils
under Miss Jones. One
large fly-shuttle is used
here besides the ordinary
hand-looms, and from the
flax obtained from Ireland
the girls weave cotton for
the making of frocks, pina-
fores, towels, etc. This is
altogether a larger work-
shop than the one at St.
Cross, and is certainly cne
of the most artistic build-
ings in Haslemere.
WEAVING-ROOM OF HASLEMERE WEAVING INDUSTRY
I suppose that the most
delicate and finished work
in weaving at Haslemere is
done at the St. Edmunds-
34i