30 JULY 1932, Page 11

An obvious demand for craftsmen's work exists and will

probably increase among those who buy gifts ; for gifts, at certain times and occasions, are but half-gifts if they are not individual and good of their kind. I wonder whether such givers generally understand how much delightful craftsman work is made in almost every material : in iron, wood, withy, grass, wool, clay, and earth. People will give immense prices for old furniture and pottery who are altogether unaware that furniture and vases hardly less good than the best in our history are still produced in the villages. It may there- fore serve a good purpose to give particular addresses of some of these craftsmen of the Western part of Britain.