Board of Education Syllabus of Examination in Industrial Design (Swansea School of Art), 1913-1914

Start Date: September 1913 (Presumed)
End Date: 1914

Type: Examination syllabus

Description: Subjects:
1. Drawing or Modelling from Historic Ornament.
2. Elementary Design.
3. Original Design.
4. History and Styles of Ornament.
5. Craft, selected by candidate.

Policy: The course details listed for the academic session 1913-1914 are as follows:

Course No.1 (f):
'The Examination in Industrial Design will be of such a standard as could be attained through regular attendance at evening or other part time classes in the intervals of employment for a period of four years after the age of 16.

Each candidate will be required to name, at the time of applying for permission to enter for the Examination, a craft in relation to which he desires to be examined. The crafts must be selected from the following list, in which letters are placed in brackets after the names of the crafts to indicate whether they are regarded as crafts which involve respectively modelling (M.), a knowledge of architecture (A.), and use of the figure (F.).

List of Crafts:-
Iron Work (M.A.)
Lead Work (M.A.)
*Light Metal Work (M.A.F.)
*Gold and Silver Smithing (M.A.F.)
*Jewellery (M.F.)
*Enamelling (F.)
Die Sinking (M.F.)
^Stone Carving (M.A.F.)
Plastering (M.A.F.)
*Painting and Decorating (A.)
Wall-paper Manufacture (A.)
Mosaic (A.F.)
Glass Painting (A.F.)
*Wood Carving (M.A.F.)
Cabinet Work (A.)
^Wood Inlaying (A.)
Pottery (M.F.)
Tile Painting and Modelling (M.F.)
Glass Blowing (M.)
Tapestry (A.F.)
*Embroidery (F.)
^Dress Design
Lace Making
Carpet Weaving
Linen Weaving
Silk Weaving
Wool Weaving
Cotton Printing
Typography
^Illumination (A.F.)
Book Binding

*Crafts in present curriculum
^Crafts to be added as occasion demands.'

Citing this record

'Board of Education Syllabus of Examination in Industrial Design (Swansea School of Art), 1913-1914', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib1_1213192263, accessed 02 Apr 2023]