Ditchling: A Craft Community
Eric Gill garden roller
"For the grass that has often time been trampled under foot, Give it time. It will rise again."
Garden roller with lettering engraved by Eric Gill, made for Ethel Mairet's garden at Gospels around 1910, and given to the Crafts Study Centre in 1976 by Marianne Straub. The roller is made from stone, the height of lettering is four centimetres.
Image copyright © Rosalind Hague/Crafts Study Centre 2004, and courtesy of VADS.
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