DRESSMAKING

SIMPLE DRESSMAKING. By ETHEL R. HAMBRIDGE, Art Teachers' Certificate, etc. In foolscap 4to, cloth, 200 pp., with 750 plates and black-and-white diagrams. 7s. 6d. net.

This book deals exhaustively with the various stitches and fastenings used in Dressmaking and their applications, Pressing, Making-up Processes, Taking Measurements, Cutting-out; and also contains some notes on Fitting.

Simplicity and completeness have been the dual purpose of the Author, and her systematic treatment of the subject, aided by her remarkable gift of lucid explanation, and her unique practical experience, has produced a valuable contribution to the literature of Domestic Science.

DRESS CUTTING AND MAKING. For the Classroom, Workroom, and Home. By EMILY WALLBANK, Head of the Needlework and Dressmaking Department, National Training School of Cookery, and MARIAN WALLBANK. In foolscap 4to, cloth, 271 pp., with 265 diagrams and illustrations. 6s. net.

The object of this work will be realized in some degree if it helps the practical reader so to mobilize her knowledge of underlying causes that she is able to produce any desired effect in the cut and fashion of a garment.

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EMBROIDERY

AN EMBROIDERY PATTERN BOOK. By MARY E. WARING. With a Foreword by Professor W. R. Lethaby, Royal College of Art. In cloth gilt, 170 pp., 2 coloured plates, with 84 full-page black-and-white diagrams. 8s. 6d. net.

"Designing of this sort is no mystery that requires 'genius'; it is of the same kind as planting a garden border.... Most embroideresses, who will begin by adapting the elements given in this Pattern Book, and gain interest and confidence in so doing, will go forward insensibly to varying the elements themselves, and to taking flowers and animals direct from Nature. This ... is the work of a highly competent designer of embroidery, and I heartily recommend it."—W. R. Lethaby in the Foreword.

EMBROIDERY & DESIGN. By JOAN H. DREW. In foolscap 4to, cloth, about 115 pp., with 82 black-and-white illustrations and designs. 5s. net.

The writer endeavours to arouse in her readers a desire for better designs, and greater individuality and thought in the home embroidery of to-day. The difference between decorative and undecorative work is clearly explained with the aid of many illustrations, and these are of the right size for tracing and working.

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ART

THE ART OF PAINTING IN PASTEL. By J. LITTLEJOHNS, R.B.A., and L. RICHMOND, R.A. With a frontispiece and foreword by FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A. With 40 beautiful full-page coloured plates and 15 other illustrations. In demy 4to, cloth gilt. 15s. net.

Extract from The Connoisseur:

"The beautiful volume may quicken public interest in the method. The 40 plates in colour afford a fine series of examples of the resources of the medium and the best methods of exploiting them."

DRAWING AND DESIGN. A School Course in Composition. By SAMUEL CLEGG, Headmaster of the County Secondary School, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, with a foreword by WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN, Professor of Civic Art, Sheffield University. 10 in. by 7½ in. 12s. 6d. net.

A feature of the book is the inclusion of plates printed by scholars from wood-blocks of their own making and designing. It also contains good sections on lettering and pen and ink drawing, as well as on pencil work, colour work, etc.

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HAND-LOOM WEAVING. By LUTHER HOOPER. 125 Drawings by the Author and NOEL ROOKE. Coloured and collotype reproduction. Small Crown 8vo, 368 pp. 8s. 6d. net.

Extract from The Morning Post:

"... Every phase and process in weaving is described with so clear and careful an exactitude, that, helped as the text is by the Author's sketches and diagrams, the reader should have no difficulty in conquering with its aid the rudiments of the craft."

EMBROIDERY & TAPESTRY WEAVING. By Mrs. A. H. CHRISTIE. Fourth Edition. 178 diagrams and illustrations by the Author, 16 pp. of collotype reproductions. Small Crown 8vo, 320 pp. 10s. 6d. net.

Extract from The Pall Mall Gazette:

"Mrs. Christie has performed her task to admiration, ... and her lucid explanations of various kinds of stitches ... should be of value to all workers at embroidery or tapestry weaving and to novices anxious to learn."

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MANUSCRIPT WRITING & LETTERING. By An Educational Expert. Showing the historical development and practical application to modern handwriting of several manuscript styles derived from ancient Roman letters. Fully illustrated. Foolscap 4to. 6s. net.

Extract from The Times:

"This book supplies and supplies generously a need which has become urgent.... For purposes purely practical, no teacher of plain handwriting need know more than this book tells him; nor should be content to know less."

HERALDRY FOR CRAFTSMEN AND DESIGNERS. By W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, Litt.D., D.C.L. Small Crown 8vo, 496 pp., 300 diagrams and designs, 24 collotype reproductions, and 8 coloured plates, 10s. 6d. net.

Extract from The AthenÆum:

"A series which includes three such books as Mr. Douglas Cockerell's 'Bookbinding,' Mr. Edward Johnston's 'Writing,' and this ranks almost as a national possession.... No artist can see this book without wanting to buy it, if it were only for the beauty of the objects selected for illustration."

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WRITING AND ILLUMINATING & LETTERING. By EDWARD JOHNSTON. Tenth Edition. 227 illustrations and diagrams by the Author and NOEL ROOKE, 8 pp. of examples in red and black, 24 pp. of collotype reproductions, 512 pp. Small Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

Extract from The AthenÆum:

"... This book belongs to that extremely rare class in which every line bears the impress of complete mastery of the subject. We congratulate Mr. Johnston on having produced a work at once original and complete."

BOOKBINDING AND THE CARE OF BOOKS. By DOUGLAS COCKERELL. Fourth Edition. 122 drawings by NOEL ROOKE, 8 pages collotype reproductions. Small Crown 8vo, 352 pp. 7s. 6d. net.

Extract from The Times:

"... A capital proof of the reasoned thoroughness in workmanship, which is the first article in the creed of those who ... are attempting to carry into practice the industrial teaching of Ruskin and William Morris."

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