Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records of the textiles, which here include embroideries, are certainly impressive. Perhaps no other art will disclose such possibilities for comparative study when all regions are ultimately brought into the national portfolios. In the textiles, the workmanship of the project artists is amazing. The colors are rich yet they achieve the softness of the wool, the folds and the textures create an almost complete illusion...
...Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took its deserved place among the best novels in the short memory of modern man. Rebecca West had lost none of her brilliance. Yet the serious channel...
...book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion." Readers who are unfamiliar with Author Sayers' careful workmanship will find other surprises. Gaudy Night is twice as long (469 pp.) as the average murder story, and Author Sayers has taken at least twice as much pains as the average with her characters and setting. Second, its interest depends almost as much on its love story as on the unravelling...
With a capacity of two and a half quarts, the crude cup is of silver and devoid of ornament. Its rim has been turned to make a smooth surface for drinking. It rests in a loose silver filigree holder of elaborate workmanship which shows, in a framework of vine leaves, birds and flowers, two figures of the youthful and the mature Christ and ten Apostles and Saints. All the faces are individual portraits. Though there is no way of dating the inner cup, most experts seem to agree that the large outer holder was made not later than the last...
...Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after a battle royal of bargaining sold them to the Kouchakji brothers for a stiff price. None is for sale. On the eve of the First Battle...