COLOURS OF NATURE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 June 1939, Page 2

COLOURS OF NATURE

STILL BEST FOR TWEEDS For centuries the colouring of tweeds was mainly dependent on natural conditions: the soil, the flowers, the sun and the wind furnished dyes and mad* the colours. Since the invention and development of the chemical dye these conditions have been changed. The advantage of this invention needs no emphasising: but it also has its drawbacks: while enabling the producer to use an unlimited amount of colours, it often tempts him to turn out a tweed which has no longer any conection with its natural character. “Blendings of atractive colours borrowed from nature are best” is the judgment of a leading English designer of tweeds. "We try to be as faithful to nature as possible and that can be greatly assisted if wc follow artistic studies by famous artists whose association of ideas is likely to produce pleasurable emotions which will be lasting. One has only to visit the Burlington Galleries where some of the mo.t famous paintings by Old Masters w'ere r«cet.tly lent for public view, to appreciate the fact that we may have lost soma of this art by modern methods.” A RECITE FOR TO-DAY Afternoon Biscuits Take 2oz castor sugar, loz chopped peel, 3Joz butter, soz flour, | teaspoonful baking powder. Cream butter and sugar together. Sift the flour and baking powder together, add chopped peel, and mix into the butter. Roll out thinly and cut into fancy shapes. Rake on a flat floured tin in a quick oven for ten minutes.