Studio: international art (49.1910)

The Arts and Crafts Society's Exhibition

The modern developments of needlecraft owe
much to the encouragement they have received at
the various exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts
Society, and in his preface to the catalogue Mr.
Walter Crane pointed out that embroidery was
particularly well represented at the New Gallery.
Some of it was indeed astonishingly skilful.
Miss Violet Turner’s reproductions of pictures
were worthy of the famous Miss Linwood, whose
gallery a century ago was one of the sights
to which all children in London were taken.
Mr. Crane’s Masque of the Four Seasons and two
pictures by Burne-Jones were among the things
successfully reproduced by this accomplished
needlewoman. Miss Kate Button in Where Sea-
gulls Play showed a landscape with sea and sky
and wet sands—certainly a clever piece of work,
though one is prompted to ask whether it is worth

ELTON WARE

DESIGNED BY E. H. ELTON
EXECUTED BY G. MASTERS

INSCRIPTION IN CARVED AND GILDED GESSO

BY F. STUTTIG

LANCASTRIAN POTTERY EXHI-
BITED BY THE PILKINGTON
TILE & POTTERY CO.

while to strive to accomplish with
so much effort and trouble what a
painter could do more quickly and
easily, and incomparably better.
Another lady showed a careful re-
presentation in needlework of an
ancient map of old London — a
work without any beauty or deco-
rative value, and only to be
regarded as an exercise. Far
more attractive and legitimate was
the fire-screen of grey silk designed
by Mr. C. F. A. Voysey, and worked
by Mrs. Reynolds-Stephens, with
its formal but charming rose-tree
embroidered with red blossoms
and rich green leaves.

Mrs. Reynolds-Stephens was not
the only embroideress at the Arts
and Crafts Exhibition who could—

. . . With her neeld compose

Nature’s own shape of bud, bird,
branch, or berry,”

and there were there besides speci-
mens of many other forms of
skilled needlework. Miss Peart’s
delightful little frock for a tiny
girl, in buff and red tussore silk,
and another of linen, on a similar
scale, with scarlet embroideries;
Miss Kathleen Turner’s embroi-
dered handkerchiefs, and Mrs.

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