House and Garden 
TAPESTRY PANEL DESIGNED BY MISS SYMONDS AND MRS. 
H. ACLAND HOOD, WORKED BY MRS. H. ACLAND HOOD 
dishes of all descriptions, in simple forms and with 
just enough of finish to leave the fine handworking 
apparent, come, principally, from the Guild of Han¬ 
dicraft, and also from Mr. J. Paul Cooper and Mr. 
E. E. Harris. 
The class of woven fabrics is very small. Mr. 
Edmund Hunter shows one or two elaborate de¬ 
sign-weavings of beautiful workmanship hut rather 
unattractive color. The most charming piece of 
weaving in the exhibition is done by Miss Charlotte 
Brown; it is a pair of linen curtains with only a slight 
heddle pattern in the lower part; the coloring is 
quite exquisite, a greyish purple which shades im¬ 
perceptibly into greenish grey, the handwork being 
conspicuous in this dainty manipulation of color. 
Needlework, naturally, forms a very large class 
but there are few ambitious pieces. Miss Una Tay¬ 
lor has nothing of equal importance with her tapes¬ 
try after the Burne-Jones design of a few years ago; 
her principal exhibit is a pictorial panel entitled 
Joli Cceur de Rose designed by Mr. W. Graham 
Robertson; it is very beautiful work and the design 
has great charm, hut it is rather wanting in repose. 
The c rimson-clad figure stands out rather startlingly 
from a nearly white background. Miss Phoebe 
McLeish has a dress yoke of delicate, careful and 
appropriate work which deserves great praise and 
Miss Peard has a very good sampler of elaborate 
gold and silver work. There are one or two needle¬ 
work pictures, the best a small snowscape by Miss 
Kate Button, while one from a beautiful design by 
Mr. Walter Crane, by Miss Violet Turner, has suf¬ 
fered a little from the colors employed and will 
doubtless improve with time. 
One of the finest classes of the whole exhibition 
is that of book decoration and handwriting. There 
is excellent work in the best traditions of earlier 
centuries from Mr. Allan F. Vigers, Miss Florence 
Kingsford, Miss Jessie Bayes and others, while Mr. 
Graily Hewitt is responsible for some exquisite pen¬ 
manship and gilding. 
There are also great beauties in hand binding from 
the Doves Bindery, and some which have been done 
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