And a big thank you to Kate at the museum for getting all of the works out for us.
I wonder what the Blounts and the Kings would have made of it all?
Talisman card designed by Godfrey Blount, Reproduced courtesy of Haslemere Educational Museum |
A blog recording the Peasant Arts movement in Haslemere, Surrey, UK around the early 1900s, and it's founders Joseph King, Maude Egerton King, Godfrey Blount, Ethel Blount and Greville MacDonald. Arts and crafts, religion, literature, architecture, suffragettes, family trees, local locations and strong beliefs, this story has it all. Over a century later, their promotion of the pleasures of homemade craft is still relevant today.
Talisman card designed by Godfrey Blount, Reproduced courtesy of Haslemere Educational Museum |
Thank you so much for organising yesterday`s meeting at the Museum! We had a wonderful day, meeting so many interesting people and seeing such treasures from the Museum archives. We would love to spend hours browsing through their artifacts from the Peasant Art industries.
ReplyDeleteWe are becoming increasingly convinced that the Haslemere Peasant Arts movement deserves more prominence, both for the artistic merit of Blount and for the social significance of the group`s reaction to mass industrialisation.
Thank you from both of us to Peasant Blogger Kate (Catherine) and her family, to Kate from the Museum and to all the modern day inhabitants of the weavers` houses and the artists` homes who made us so welcome yesterday!