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RERAMIC STUDIO 
MOTHERWORT 
A. A. Robineau 
TO fill a summer sketch book with drawings of wild flowers 
and weeds is a very useful recreation as well as one full 
of delightful surprises. When the winter comes and you idly 
turn the leaves to recall your summer outing you will be sur- 
prised to find how charmingly decorative some of these weeds 
were which you have sketched, hardly realizing their artistic 
worth. 
Such a surprise is the motherwort, the flower so insignifi- 
cant, hardly shows more than to give a lavender glow to the 
landscape where the clusters of tall spikes climb the roadsides 
or peep over the fences. And in the moonlight, the silhou- 
ette against the sky of their symmetrically arranged leaves, 
shivering in the breeze, looks like so many little black imps 
swarming up a spire and beckoning the unwary into the circle 
of their witching influence. The square stem and veins of 
the leaves have a brownish purple tone giving a color effect 
not unlike heather. 
We give two simple silhouette arrangements but there 
are infinite possibilities in the flower. The vase decoration is 
a ghostly translation of one of those impish silhouettes 
against the lake. To use it for vase or pitcher it can be re- 
a cream or soft grey white against a sky of varying greys of 
warm or blueish tones. 
The cup and saucer design can be carried out in one, two 
peated at regular intervals around the form, or tall and short or three tones of blue. 
spikes can be grouped irregularly at intervals. Carry out in The leaves with or without their veinings are extremely 
CUP AND SAUCER DESIGN IN MOTHERWORT 
