Studio: international art (50.1910)

The Glasgow School of Embroidery


CUSHION SQUARE

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY M. L. A. EXCELL

household in the country,
Already it holds the promise
of much success, and it
receives the highest en-
couragement from the Scot-
tish Education Department.

There is one point in
which Glasgow is in advance
of many districts. Students
are early encouraged to make
original designs ; the system
of copying or imitating is
greatly discouraged. This is
the secret of much of the
individualistic character in
the applied art at Glasgow;
the training is all in the
direction of cultivating both
the art and the craft side of
the student.

So much for the rudimen-
tary aspect of the question,
but there is the other, in
which Miss Macbeth, with
her great faculty for work
and powers of organisation, is

ten to eleven ; and gather-
ing, tucking, stroking,
etc., from eleven to twelve.
It must suffice to say that
in all this useful occupa-
tion the constructive and
decorative is steadily kept
in view, while the physical
and moral well-being of
the girl is always a matter
of the most careful con-
sideration. This was an
unconscious following of
the Japanese method, by
which the child begins
with a form of tacking,
proceeds with the sewing
of the national flower, the
outline of which has been
drawn by the teacher,
finally making and deco-
rating its own kimono.
The scheme is ambitious
and far-reaching; it may
yet embrace every dis-
trict and influence every
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CUSHION SQUARE

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ANNIE PATERSON