Studio: international art (60.1914)

Royal Hungarian Arts and Crafts Sc hoot, Budapest

character, for Hungary has
a tradition in lace-making.
They show a fine feeling
for that building up of
form which is so great a
characteristic among the
Hungarians and which is
perceptible everywhere in
their peasant art.

Other subjects are
taught in connection with
textiles, for instance arras
weaving; in fact there is
nothing which comes
under this heading which
is not included in the
course of study.

From what has been
said it may be gathered
that the general tone of
the schools is healthy, and
that one can look forward
to their future develop-
ment with the fullest
confidence.

obtained. The students exe-
cute the designs they have
modelled under Prof. Simay
in the ceramic workshops,
which are under the care of
an able expert in this branch
of applied art, Mr. Schleich.

The classes for textiles are
under Prof. Mihalik, whose
students, as may naturally
be supposed, are chiefly girls.
They learn to work in the
material before designing on
paper, that is, they design in
the material, for the tech-
nique of embroidery, lace-
making, and even machine
embroidery must first be
mastered. Studies are made
from Nature and then trans-
lated into design, which
must be specially suited to
the material in which it is
to be executed. The de-
signs here reproduced are
pre-eminently Hungarian in
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