Studio: international art (65.1915)

National Competition of Schools of A rt, igi5

work, executed in ten or a dozen varieties of
stitches, was the embroidered cushion-cover by
Miss Gladys Elton, of Preston (Harris Institute).

The examiners in the section of Woven Textiles
refer with gratification to the increase in the
number of designs which were worked out in
material, but at the same time they point out that
many of the designs submitted to them for adjudi-

STAINED-GLASS PANEL. BY FRANK M. BENFIELD
(LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND
CRAFTS, HAMMERSMITH)

cation displayed no knowledge of the practical
conditions of production; such, for instance, as a
so-called design for furnishing tapestry, which was
evidently made without any special consideration
of textile design whatever. This is by no means the
first time that this criticism has been made with
regard to the textile designs emanating from our
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TOOLED LEATHER COVER FOR AN ILLUMINATED BOOK.
BY BARBARA G. LEGGE (WEST HAM MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL
SCHOOL OF ART)