Studio: international art (90.1925)

EDINBURGH

their marketable value. Despite certain
economic conditions and commercial com-
petition, the promoters of the Scottish Folk
Fabrics are producing some excellent tex-
tiles, the accompanying illustrations being
from some of their recent productions,
other notable ones being illustrated in the
current number of The Studio Year Book,
and I have no doubt when the trade ceases
to demand ancient designs and replicas,
lacking the sincerity, as well as ofttimes the
appropriate utility which inspired the
original, and when the salesman takes as
vital an interest in the study of genuine art
as he does in that of selling inferior furnish-
ings, we may again take some pride in our
living-room surroundings. For I believe we
have designers and weavers, assisted by the
marvellous inventions—when they are con-
trolled by the sincere artist—which are able
to produce work as beautiful and practical
as has ever been. E. A. T.

rug. by " scot-
tish folk fabrics

EDINBURGH.—That weaving manu-
facturers have learned to make things
bad, yet with all the outward appearance of
being good, is only one of the many
abominations the war has left as a testament
of its unscrupulous effect, making a poor
page to add to the artistic history of the
nations involved. It certainly will be one
weak in idealistic comparison with the won-
derfully vivid descriptions of the weaver's
art to be found in the " Arabian Nights/'
The history and legends, too, of England,
China, and Japan's far away day designers
teem with inspiration for the artists who
desire to express themselves, not only in
the weaving industry, but in any craft. By
that inspiration I mean the spiritual en-
thusiasm, not as one finds it, by merely
culling and adapting the designs, with no rug by «scot-

other thought behind them than that of tish folk fabrics

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