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KERAMIC STUDIO 
VIOLET DESIGNS 
Henrietta Barclay Paist 
THIS month I have chosen the "modest violet/' which 
shies and dips with graceful curves behind its cool 
green leaves. The violet always suggests the debutante, 
shy, demure, retreating but always inviting. It vies with 
the wild rose in popularity, and with many, no doubt, takes 
first place. It is the fresh simplicity and lack of diplomacy 
in the wild rose, I think, which appeals to me, the "just as 
I am without one plea," "take me for what I am" attitude, 
no concealments and no apologies, fresh, frank, open, giv- 
ing of itself without reserve, scattering its petals in true 
lavishness, trusting to the One Life to renew its beauty in 
its season. But it is not that we love the violet less, but 
the wild rose more, that we cling to the spell it has cast. 
So this month we have the blue violet, and green, for 
our color scheme, with a nice touch of yellow, when centers 
show, and for a background ivory or white, with gold as 
complementary, or silver or white gold for analogous har- 
mony. The designs shown are, I am sure, practical for 
adaptation to many shapes. Most of them are suitable 
either for enamels or other treatment, and will, I hope, sug- 
gest many other combinations and uses. 
The wild rose design is to complete the group as sug- 
gested last month, this design to be used on outside, and 
the border and unit on inside of bowl, with bands of color 
and gold to complete the design as a whole. 
