Studio: international art (50.1910)

The Glasgow School of Embroidery

of chess. From the years six to seven
the child is taught tacking, but in such
an interesting way that she may even
then claim to be an embroiderer.

The whole system of instruction in
sewing in the infant department of
schools has been wrong. It has pro-
ceeded in total ignorance or utter disre-
gard of optical science, and only when
the mischief has become serious is there
some show of concern. Myopia is pre-
valent amongst younger girls at school;
it is largely caused by setting them the
task of making white stitches on a
white garment before the eye has
reached its proper focussing power, at
the age of eleven to twelve. In the
system inaugurated by Miss Macbeth
the garment is white, but the stitches
are coloured, and each row is in a
different harmonising colour; the youth-

TOILET CLOTH

BY TINA H. FORBES

EMBROIDERED BAG

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY TINA H. FORBES

ful eyesight being thus carefully preserved, while
the colour sense is at the same time being culti-
vated.

It would take too long here to enter into the
minutiie of the scheme, to follow the child through
the curriculum at various stages and ages, top
sewing and hemming, from seven to eight; felling,
running and false hemming, from eight to nine;
working in two textures, herring-boning, pinking,
pleating, darning and taping, from nine to ten;
button-stitching, binding and cutting out from

I3I

BY JENNIE McNAUGHT

costly, but really less artistic, silks and satins, con-
sidered by a past generation superlatively beautiful.
The scheme is carefully tabulated, and the visitor
can see at a glance the whole position; each
move is as thoughtfully considered as in a game