HERAMIC STUDIO 
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Small plates having for their decoration the simplest arrangement of a flower motif in three tones. 
THE DESIGN CLASS 
M. M. Mason 
THE designs shown in this number of the Keramic 
Studio were selected from the available work of my 
classes in New York, Washington and Indianapolis; and I 
regret that there was not room for much other work which 
was equally interesting. 
Our object in these classes is a study of the principles 
of design and their application to various craft purposes. 
As a thorough and all round appreciation of art expression 
is never attained through the study of one subject, therefore 
we endeavor to adapt our ideas, in accordance with art 
principles, to the various crafts — primarily to the decora- 
tion of porcelain, as a large majority of the class are inter- 
ested in that special craft, but also to surface patterns for 
numberless purposes, block printing, stenciling, weaving, 
embroidery, etc. First we begin with the simplest of 
motifs, lines and dots, composing border and surface 
designs, and keeping in mind the principles of arrangement, 
etc. From this, the work is developed step by step, to more 
complicated and imaginative motifs. 
For the subject of some of our plate designs "A Medieval 
Hunt" was the motif, again "A Basket of Fruit,"' or 
"Flowers", etc. 
Design for a wood block. 
An arrangement in a circle based on a flower form. 
MISS MASON'S DESIGN CLASS. 
