KERAMIC STUDIO 
BORDER SUGGESTIONS FOR TABLE SERVICE 
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A SIMPLE motif has been chosen that beginners may be 
interested, if possible, to do that which there is such a 
need of — good, quiet table service. The designs as sug- 
gested on the bowls, will make pleasing reserved border 
decorations for plates or cups and saucers, carried out in 
gold, matt silver, or in blues for a breakfast service, or 
ice would be done by our painters if their first excitement 
was not cooled by the doing of "holding in" lines. One 
must feel the line and border limit, but there is something 
irritating in seeing it ahead of one on dozens of plates, 
cups or bowls. Do not mistake the thought — lawlessness 
is not to be encouraged in design. Flowers, lovely as they 
in soft greens for a cool luncheon set. No tracing is nec- 
cessary. A careful planning of shapes and spaces will en- 
able the worker to paint quite freely and easily without the 
aid of a traced limit line. The same, or nearly the. same 
spacing, has been kept throughout the six bowl borders. 
are, running wildly over a plate do not make for a restful 
table. Our plates should not intrude. 
In the delight of painting a flower, one is apt to for- 
get the use to which the thing decorated is to be put. A 
plate should not be a picture. Plates are not merely 
Note the different designs evolved by the changing from 
ovals to diamonds and squares — by varying the open grey 
space outlined shapes, with solid dark space shapes. 
Great care has been taken to prepare designs that 
may be done with freedom without the drudgery of tracing 
— a strong belief being held that more and better table serv- 
plates — they are a table decoration. We can live best 
and longest with that which conforms to the laws of de- 
sign — or of life. One does not admire anyone or any- 
thing so conventional as to be stupid, but one is happy and 
content with originality, strength, tenderness and re- 
serve. 
