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DORSETSHIEE ArtS AND CrAFTS. 



[Oct., 



Amateur glove making is very popular and was really excellent 

 of its kind. The sum of £37 was taken at the glove section; 

 most of the gloves being contributed by members of the Women's 

 Institutes. 



There was an increase in both light and heavy metal work. 

 We are justly proud of the fact that the highest award given in 

 the recent Home Arts Exhibition, held in the Albert Hall, was 

 gained by a Dorset man, a smith of Milton Abbas, for beautiful 

 wrought iron work. This exhibitor, whose work is becoming 

 well known and should command valuable orders, also gained 

 a medal at the Dorset Exhibition. He is an artist as well as a 

 craftsman, both in design and execution, and his gates and other 

 decorative iron work have attracted much notice. 



One of the most interesting and instructive exhibits was to 

 be found in the section for " Raw Materials and their Uses." 

 A variety of home-dye materials, prepared from local plants and 

 lichens, showed from what portion of the plants the shades were 

 obtained, both being displayed and labelled to demonstrate 

 results. This had a scientific as well as practical interest and 

 €>,ttr acted much attention. 



The pottery exhibited by Messrs. Carter & Co., of Poole, was 

 — as always — a great and beautiful asset to the exhibition, which 

 they loyally support by sending annually a dignified and rich 

 collection fi'om their well-known and important Dorset industry. 

 We wish that more of the professional industries would send 

 specimens of their various handicrafts as samples of what the 

 county can produce. 



The County Assocation for helping the BUnd took a large space 

 at the exhibition, in order to advertise all kinds of work executed 

 by them. Basket work was shown in great quantity and greatly 

 appealed to the visitors. 



It is impossible in a limited space to deal in detail with much 

 of the excellent work sent by hundreds of individual exhibitors, 

 a great deal being for exhibition only. The total amount taken 

 in sales generally was as good as in previous years, but it was 

 noticed that the articles purchased were of a less expensive nature, 

 buying-power being reduced and people having to think twice 

 before purchasing some of the more valuable and expensive articles. 

 The total amount taken in the two days of the exhibition was 

 £301 3s. 4d., the Association claiming 5 per cent, and the sum 

 of £2SC) 2s. Od. being paid direct to the workers. This dees not 

 represent the entire amount of orders taken at the exhibition and 

 not paid for at the time. 



