Knox Guild of Design and Crafts
Mabel Pope made silver jewellery decorated with semi-precious stones and Molly Walters designed tiles and textiles.
Other members included Denise Tuckfield, May Holding, Mabel Roffey, Molly Walters, who designed tiles and textiles, Mabel Pope, who made silver jewellery, Annie Begg, and Maude Bishop, who created stained glass including the memorial window at Surbiton Hill Methodist Church.
Mr. Archibald Knox, its founder, is represented, by some 20 water-colour sketches of Manx scenery; other exhibitors in the same section are Mr. Edgar T. Holding, Mr. Henry Wren, and Mr. John Bacon.
Miss Winifred Tuckfield, the secretary, and other ladies, give demonstrations of hand-spinning and weaving, and show many beautiful fabrics made by hand, and dyed with the vegetable dyes extracted and used by the members.
Other exhibits include stained and decorated leather work; Gesso mirrors; Oxshott pottery, made by Mr. and Mrs. Wren; a remarkable variety of jewelry and necklaces, made by Miss Mabel Pope and others; exquisite embroidery by Miss Gertrude Connor Smith; dainty fabrics in silk and wool; stained glass, and raffia baskets, hats, and mats.
Better still, visitors to the Art Gallery may watch the creators of the admirable exhibits at work at bench, loom, and wheel.
A host of delightful coloured things like wraps and shawls, curtains and hangings, are on view, and in the centre of the hall there are the spinning-wheels on which many of them were made.
In the corner devoted to pottery there are all sorts of cups and platters, bowls, vases, and candlesticks, beautifully shaped and coloured.
[10][11] Tony Althopp C. Ballard Annie Louisa Begg (1874-1973)[12] Nora Black Maude 'Maudie' Emily Bishop (1890-1975)[12] Marian Coombes Celia Ellls Elizabeth Ellis Dorothy Gruchy Lilian Harding May Harris Edgar 'Edmund' Thomas Holding (1870-1952)[12] May Holding (b.1869) Lilian Parker Annie Parker Mabel I. Pope (c.1888-1970)[12] Jessie Smith Denise K Tuckfield Winifred Tuckfield (1889-1955)[12] Harold A Winser ?
Williams Begg, Annie L (1930) Raffia; methods and suggestions for work, in the home, schools, and women's institutes.
