Studio: international art (50.1910)

The Glasgow School of Embroidery

DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERY PANEL BY HELEN A. LAMB

also busily engaged. On several afternoons during
the week adult classes meet at the School to pursue
the higher branches of the art of embroidering,
and a walk round the tables or an inspection of
the finished pieces in Miss Macbeth’s room gives
pleasure of no ordinary kind to the aesthetic sense.
A striking piece of work, recently accomplished,
is the banner reproduced in colour as an illustra-
tion to this article. It is throughout the work of
Miss Macbeth herself, and was commissioned by
Ex-Lord Provost Sir William Biisland, a man keenly
interested in the art and craft genius of the city;
it has now been presented to the city of Lyons,
in fraternal acknowledgment of its gift to Glasgow
of a worthy example of its famous silk manufacture.

Besides the School of Art, other agencies in

Glasgow are active in fostering a love for, and
encouraging the practice of the new embroidery.
Foremost amongst these is the Ladies’ Art Club,
with its popular periodical exhibitions of applied
art, at which needlework always occupies a
prominent position. Architecture, too, with its
insistent demand for special decoration, is another
factor in bringing into prominence the latest phase
in embroidery, and it is surely one of the chief
merits of the modern decorative style that every
part is thoughtfully considered in its relationship
to the whole, with a view to complete unity being
secured. Some striking examples of the new
needlework are to be found in the unique Tea
Rooms that have become quite an institution in
the city. They may decorate a chimney-piece, or a

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