| Pattern
During a visit to the museum children are given the opportunity to investigate
patterns in textiles, ceramics and architecture from different times and cultures.
Children can explore ways of combining and organising shapes, colours and patterns
to make a decorative piece of their own.
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The
Industrial Gallery
and Round Room
The building itself
is a valuble tool
in
teaching
sessions as children
can discover pattern
in the decorative
ironwork, columns,
brickwork, tiles
and windows all around
them.
The Round Room
and the Industrial
Gallery were opened
by the Prince of
Wales in 1885.
The Round Room today
looks much the same
as it would have
done then. The
paintings are hung
closely together.
The Industrial Gallery,
built of decorative
ironwork, was the
major exhibition
area of the original
1885 building. The
items on display
were models of good
design, intended
to inspire Midlands
industrial craftsmen.
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William
De Morgan, Wall
tile (1880's)
Location: Industrial Gallery
William De Morgan was influenced by Islamic pottery lustre decoration, achieving
a shimmering effect by adding metal oxides to the ceramic surface before firing.
His tiles were earthenware, with the transfer painted over the slip (runny clay).
The
white
slip provided a smooth, brilliant background to the colour on the tiles`
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Stained
Glass Window, St
John the Baptist
The Industrial Gallery has some impressive stained glass which can
be used in the topic of pattern. This example has a clear border, an inner
red border with three trefoil shaped leaves springing from a circle painted in
yellow and brown on clear glass.
Burne-Jones, a painter of international renown born at Bennett's Hill, Birmingham,
and
his
colleague, Rossetti, designed some of the stained glass here |
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