AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE EXHIBITION OK THE HOME ARTS AND INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, I 903 
By EDWARD W. GREGORY 
E VERY district of England has its char¬ 
acter. Every district has its peculiarity 
ot dialect, even its peculiarity of person. The 
railways have not entirely extinguished these, 
nor have the telegraphs yet made universal 
the monotony ot written expression. 
The simple arts and industries of the 
country folk still live. Great stores and 
factories, in spite of their magnetic attractions 
for the young and aspiring, have failed to 
annihilate the joy ot the village craftsman. 
The ring of the hammer and anvil may be 
heard daily in every English hamlet, the 
CUSHION OF GREEK LACE 
Designed and worked by Annie Christie , Langdale, Westmorland 
local carpenter still fashions the furniture his 
fathers made, and, trom some countrysides, 
the spinning wheel and loom, even, have not 
disappeared. 
It was some nineteen years ago since an 
association was formed to preserve village 
industries in England, and to an eminent 
native of Philadelphia belongs the credit of 
originating the idea. 
The late Charles Godfrey Leland in the 
preface to his first edition of “Minor Arts” 
sketched out a general suggestion for the 
formation ot classes in rural districts, under 
EMBROIDERED BEDSPREAD 
Designed by Annie Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland 
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