The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1906)

Embroidery

solid embroidery, every feather clearly articulated.
A daisied lawn spreads at their feet, and in the
middle is an almond-tree, blossoms and branches
embroidered in silk upon an applique circle of pale
sea-green silk. Butterflies are also introduced into
this composition. The third and last example of
Miss Verona Smith's work is a cushion (p. 206) in
grey linen, with applique circles in blue. The rest
of the ornament is mainly heraldic, and comprises
two hands grasping a sword, the general colour
scheme being pale-greens and blue.

Miss Brown's table-centre (p. 217) is of blue linen,
either end being embroidered with conventional
roses in mauve with pale grey-green leaves.

The remaining examples are designed by Miss
Ann Macbeth, whose work, though it comprehends,
perhaps, a rather wider range of subjects than that

EMBROIDERED CURTAIN

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY GOODYERS

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EMBROIDERED CURTAIN

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY GOODYERS

of the preceding, is dominated not less pronoun-
cedly than theirs by the characteristics of Glasgow
decoration, with its severe conventionalisations of
form and strange blendings of subdued colour
schemes. The ground of the panel for a pole-
screen (p. 208) is white satin. The pattern is
founded on rose sprays, the flowers, in pink and
mauve, festooned with delicate lines, partly en-
riched with seed pearls.

A hanging of blue linen (p. 207) displays the
four Evangelistic symbols on medallions of brown
linen applique. The emblems are embroidered
in silk, brown, green, mauve and white predomi-
nating. The nimbuses are laid work in coppery-
gold thread, while the accompanying legends are
in chestnut-brown.

A coarse brown linen toilet-mat (p. 217), bordered