RURAL CRAFTS.
- Excellent accounts reach me of the sale of county crafts- men's work organized by the Rural Industries Bureau. In a previous reference to the enterprise the address was unwittingly contracted. It should be 26 Eccleston Street, Victoria, S.W. 1. A Wiltshire craft not, I think, represented at this sale has made an astonishing advance within the last year or two. A group of village weavers, most of whose patterns are designed by a lady with a genius for such design, have started a London shop, and this has so stimulated the sale that last year's turnover was £12,000 or more, and the profits in four figures. Here is triumphant evidence that there is still room for the real craftsman ; and it may be that the more production is mechanized, the more surely will the real artists of the community demand individual work.
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