The Use of Ashes For New Pottery
Simple pottery vases and bowls which have captured the fancy of hostesses as settings for their winter flower decorations appeared in a new guise at a recent London exhibition, writes Marianne May fay re in the Daily Telegraph. Ashes from such trees as the mulberry, golden elm, Scotch tir, and olive from Italy are mixed with tho clay to give delicate subtleties of shading to this pottery, which is designed and made by Mr and Mrs Charles Vyse. Differing shades of soft celadon green, which makes a perfect background for flower settings, appear in bowls in which the clay has been mixed with golden elm and apple tree ashes. The ashes of an evergreen shrub are miugled with iron to produce the soft rust colour of another vase. Women arc discovering new ideas in decoration from this exhibition. Copper-coloured beech leaves and silvery pampas grass are arranged in a slim-necked vase in tones of soft brown and greyish-blue. Tiny bowls, made in the form of a water lily flower will hold nosegays of spring flowers. Single flower heads arc arranged in the shallow surrounding trough.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 10
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