Ada Louise Lessore known as ‘Lalla’ to her family and close friends was one of a number of talented female Arts and Crafts designer-makers, including Georgina Gaskin and Edith Dawson, who are remembered primarily as part of a husband-and-wife team. She was however an established artist in her own right with a remarkable pedigree before […]
Sarah was a self-taught architect. She earlier had designed other smaller projects, most in and around Wreay. I have been to this building twice, each time with a different tour group.
It was natural for women to play a crucial part in the development of textiles. During the Victorian period sewing and embroidery had been an acceptable homemade art worked quietly in private. The Arts and Crafts period however increased both the potential and public visibility of such crafts. Under the art school direction of enlightened […]
In her lifetime Phoebe Anna Traquair was known in Scotland for her mural decoration of three buildings in her adopted city of Edinburgh but in London her name was more associated with the studio crafts – embroideries, illuminated manuscripts and, from the 1900s, art enamelling. Born Phoebe Anna Moss in County Wicklow, Ireland, she had […]