. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. ng soremorselessly torn from the poor. He at once found his man in the correspon-dent above referred to, Mr. Egbert Rydings,with whose intelligent help the decrepit indus-try was quickly put on its legs. Mr. Rydingssheart was in the business : there could beno doubt of that. Why, every blanket andsheet, every piece of flannel and cloth, everypair of stockings, in his house, had been spuneither by his wife or by her mother before her. We have now linen sheets in wear, wroteMr. Rydings, with pleasant pride, not a holeor a
. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. ng soremorselessly torn from the poor. He at once found his man in the correspon-dent above referred to, Mr. Egbert Rydings,with whose intelligent help the decrepit indus-try was quickly put on its legs. Mr. Rydingssheart was in the business : there could beno doubt of that. Why, every blanket andsheet, every piece of flannel and cloth, everypair of stockings, in his house, had been spuneither by his wife or by her mother before her. We have now linen sheets in wear, wroteMr. Rydings, with pleasant pride, not a holeor a tear in them, that were spun by my wifesmother—and she, poor body, has been deadtwenty-eight or twenty-nine years—the flaxgrown on their own farm. What do j-ou thinkof that ? And did not the daughters of LordAuckland, when he was Bishop of Sodor andMan, go every Saturday afternoon to the dearold lady to learn to spin ? Mr. Rydings wasthus reviving a family tradition as well as avillage industry. Tirst of all, Mr. Ruskin foundmoney to encourage some of the older and. SOME INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENTS. 1/5 feebler workers, and he then had a water-millbuilt. He has often been accused of prefer-ring the beautiful to the useful, and I give theaccompanying sketch of St. Georges Mill, atLaxey, to refute the accusation. The authorof The Seven Lamps of Architecture and of The Stones of Venice is justifiably proud ofthis substantial building, and the photographof it, with the accompanying legend, from whichthis sketch is taken, occupies a prominent placeamong the other art treasures in the drawing-room at Brantwood. The first virtue in anybuilding is that it should be suitable to itspurpose, and no one can deny to the LaxeyMill an honest ugliness which exactly suits thehome of the manufacture of honest threadinto honest cloth. This romantic building is at once a factoryand a store. It contains, in the first place, themachinery for carding and spinning the wooland washing the cloth. The wo
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