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that he considered it more desirable that a 

 workmen should express himself clumsily 

 with a chisel than that a great artist should 

 arise every now and then out of the race. 



Those who possess a plot of land strenuously 

 labour on it at sunrise and sunset, but as land 

 is held up by its owners round this village 

 and is ever rising in value, little land is 

 obtainable in spite of the demand for the 

 earth. It was pleasing to find that the oak 

 used for some of the furniture made at Hasle- 

 mere was felled at Cranleigh near by, so that 

 in this industry, as in that of making pots 

 from the noble clay round Compton, we get 

 nearer the real thing — that is, the conversion 

 of local material into useful as well as beautiful 

 works of art. 



Mr. Hunter had his St. Edmundsbury 

 Weaving Works here at one time, where on 

 his large hand-looms he wove silk into a cloth 

 of gold for Nero in Stephen Phillip's play, 

 and superb altar-cloths for some of our great 

 cathedrals. He has now taken his works to 

 the Garden City. 



One cannot help feeling that in spite of 

 the sincerity of the pioneers of the handicraft 

 movement at Haslemere, that preciosity is in 



