almost impossible for any oneoutside the trade to get the neces-sary workshop practice, and as aresult the efforts of those whoessayed to produce jewellery in theabsence of this training often hadan unmistakably amateurish ap-pearance ; but in recent years theinstitution of workshops with… … craft demanding suchmanual deftness as finejewellery should have at-tracted numerous workersof the gentler sex, who tojudge by the exhibits atthe arts and crafts exhi-bitions held from time totime, now appear to formthe majority among thoseengaged in the productionof jewelled ornaments as an…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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