Vol. XVIII, No. 9. 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
January 1917 
S1HE New Year sees us following the 
path laid out in our Christmas issue, 
we are living up to our promises and 
expect to do some more as the oppor- 
tunity offers. What are you doing 
to help the good work along? We 
have been asleep too long. It is time 
to wake up and pull all together for 
the best good of the greatest number. 
Keep in mind the motto "What helps 
one, helps all." It is a truth too few realize. W e shall do for 
you all that lies in our power. What will you do for us that 
we may do more for you? Have you any new idea in ceramic 
decoration or methods of work that you think would be helpful 
to others? Why not send it to Keramic Studio"! We will pay 
for it. Have you gifts to make? Why not a subscription to 
Keramic Studiol Do you know some ceramic worker who needs 
instruction and inspiration, why not get him or her to subscribe 
to Keramic Studio. When you have helped to swell the in- 
come of Keramic Studio, then Keramic Studio can use that in- 
come for other improvements — and will — more color work, 
more pages, more of everything helpful that we can find. Won't 
_ you all make a New Year's resolution to pull all together with 
Keramic Studio for the good work to go on? Let us put more 
living and real interest into our relations as publishers and read- 
ers. Keramic Studio is your magazine. You are our helpers. 
Write us what you want and rest assured that sooner or later, 
as soon as that want can be supplied, you will not be forgotten. 
We can not always answer letters by letters, but, if in the range 
of possibilities, your letter will be answered directly or indirectly 
in Keramic Studio. But no letter passes unread or unappre- 
ciated. You have not told us yet whether you would like any 
other arts or crafts added to Keramic Studio. Does silence 
give consent or the contrary in this case? We really want to 
know. 
» H 
The article of Mrs. O'Neill on glass firing completes in- 
structions for glass decoration which will be invaluable to 
beginners in this line of work; and, although the firing of glass 
requires a little more care than the firing of china, it should 
be a very simple and easy matter for people who are already 
used to the decoration of china, to branch into glass work. 
There are several reasons why this is advisable at the 
present time. First, as we have explained before, the demand 
for decorated glass is enormous and commercial factories are 
almost unable to fill orders. There is room for good, artistic, 
individual work. Good glass shapes are made in this country. 
On the other hand the scarcity of china is more and more 
felt, and outside of the soft Belleek ware, no white china for 
decorating is produced in this country. Although the situa- 
tion will be considerably relieved at the end of the war, it must 
not be expected that there will be a flood of china coming from 
Europe. There will not be for a long time after the war, as 
the European industries will not be rebuilt in a day and there 
will be many, many things which Europeans will consider more 
urgent to produce than white china for American decorators. 
Why then should not decorators devote at least a part of their 
time to this very interesting work of glass decoration? 
We realize that at first there will be some difficulty in 
finding a good stock of glass shapes at your dealer's. The 
glass manufacturers sell only wholesale and your dealer will 
not order a stock of glass until he sees some demand for it, 
but, as soon as he sees decorators asking for glass he will natur- 
ally and promptly supply the demand. 
As to glass colors, there is an excellent supply of all kinds 
of brilliant painting colors, mat colors and enamels. These 
have mostly been sold in pound quantities to commercial 
establishments, but they will soon be found at dealers' stores, 
put up in small vials, like the china colors. The matt colors, 
which give a silky finish, are very much used now for the decor- 
ation of fancy articles, such as Cologne bottles, etc., and fac- 
tories which do this line of work are working overtime. 
One of our subscribers just writes to us in date of Nov- 
ember 25th : 
"I have been doing a large order in glass all summer, firing during the 
hottest weather. If it had not been for that there would have been no busi- 
ness at all, as this seems to be the worst season for china painting we have had." 
» K 
We would like simple designs to be executed on glass, with 
tried directions for treatment in any medium, enamels, stains, 
lustres, gold, etc. For table glass, as for other table ware, the 
treatment should be simple and restrained. One does not sit 
down to the table for a "flow of reason and a feast of soul" 
alone, so the decoration should not be too distracting to allow 
a good appetite. 
K K 
We have tried time and again to get contributors from the 
Pacific coast but without result. We want all of the United 
States, north, east, south, west, to be represented in the maga- 
zine, as well as Canada and foreign countries. Won't some of 
you send us designs, art notes, news connected with ceramics — 
anything to let us keep in touch. The warring countries can 
do little now, but we must keep the fire alive to warm them 
when all is over. Japan, which has been such an inspiration to 
western art, should be generous and contribute too. She is 
comparatively at peace. 
K K 
A new magazine worthy of support has appeared, "The 
Potter," a monthly magazine devoted to the potter's art, edited 
by Frederick Hurten Rhead, who once contributed such valu- 
able instruction in that craft to Keramic Studio. It is pub- 
lished at Santa Barbara, California. Any one who is interested 
in the art of pottery making should certainly subscribe. The 
editor knows from personal experience that there is no one in 
the United States better equipped to instruct in that art than 
Mr. Rhead. It would be a useful publication for any one wish- 
ing a more liberal knowledge of the ceramic arts than can be 
obtained elsewhere in America. 
Regular contributions by Edwin Atlee Barber, the Direc- 
tor of the Pensylvania Museum on old and modern potteries 
will make "The Potter" valuable to collectors as well as to 
ceramists 
There has for a long time been a need for a magazine of 
this kind and all people interested in this craft should give it 
their hearty support. 
