A good number of our rural industries are growing and -
love become of some importance in the,economy,of the villa .. I have several times quoted examples - from the output of - the blacksmith, wheelwright, carpenter, and saddler. The women take their share, as Londoners will have a chance of seeing on July 25th. That classical cricketer the Lord Mayor of London will then open at Londonderry House a show of quilted work by the miners' wives and -daughter' The work has a long tradition, like many rural arts, of whicli perhaps thatching is the aristocrat. You will see iii the Park Lane gallery patterns identical with those you may see in the Victoria and Albert Museum, though there has been no collusion, no copying. Mother has handed down to daughter froM the age of Elizabeth the secret of particular patterns and the technique of their making. The most famous and perhaps most delicate is " the feather pattern," native to Durham. If anyone wishes to Possess a piece of work peculiarly British she will have it as certainly in the quilt; cushion, or coverlet by a miner's wife as, say, in a piece of Chelsea china or a Chippendale chair. Workers (from the- delightfully named Ynysddu) will be present to demonstrate the use of the frame and to impart the technique.
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