ABSTRACT
Aymer Vallance, designer, critic and a biographer of William Morris, was also a collector of medieval sculpture and woodwork. Educated at Harrow, he went on to Oriel College, Oxford. He then settled in London and engaged in the study of ecclesiastical art. Most of the raised surface hangings have been already mentioned in the article on ceiling decoration. There is another material in which there is at least one good frieze strip, besides several handsome designs for general wall surfaces, viz., Tynecastle canvas. Tiles are often advertised for interior wall-decoration. They may impart a refreshing coolness that is very welcome in more southern latitudes, but in a climate like ours, tiles, however warmly they may be coloured, never lose that hardness and coldness which disqualifies them from use in English living-room.
