Cold-Wrought Iron / The Tempering of Steel (Art Workers Guild), 1906

End Date: 16 March 1906

Type: Lecture and demonstration

Description: 'Mr. J. Starkie Gardner spoke on the subject, and showed some lantern slides. Mr. A. Shirley demonstrated the process of tempering steel, and Mr. C. Krall explained his exhibits' (AWG annual report, 1906, p. 6).

Policy: 'Founded in 1883, with the object of bringing into closer union the workers in various arts and crafts - architects, painters, designers of all kinds, sculptors and wood carvers, metal-workers, goldsmiths, and many others - chiefly by evening meetings and discussions on different lines and methods in art. Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1905, p. 142).

Citing this record

'Cold-Wrought Iron / The Tempering of Steel (Art Workers Guild), 1906', 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=msib2_1215773917, accessed 16 Oct 2019]