The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-14

IS worth $500 In addition to the statue. a
vase of white and sienna marble, only
| three feet high, is worth $1,000 for every
foot OF its altitude. Some remarkable
combinations of marble and bronze are
shown. The head, arms and feet of a
negro girl are of bronze, while the drapery
is fashioned of two distinct marbles, but
all so deity joined that the whole looks as
if it was carved out of one piece. 1t puz
zles one to understand how marble drap-
cry could be wrapped about bronze should
ers without break.
The laces are most fascinating to the
women visitors, and the man who cannot
take interest in these glorious creations of
the needle has no art in his soul. Some OF
the most beautiful things in this exposi-
| ton are fabrics, and here it is that COM
merce commands art and makes of her a
worthy handmaiden. But of all the
| fabrics, the Gobeiin tapestries not ex-
| cepted the Venetian laces are the loveliest.
! \ Venetian firm has erected here large
| pavilion for display of its laces The struc-
| ture itself is of lace, at least in its snowy
! part. Within are laces ranging in value
from cents to 81 900 yard. The cheaper
laces approximate machine manufacture,
being made with bobbin, and really are
not as fine as our American or the Euro
pean machine-made stuff The finer Iaces
are ali made with a needle, and yard OF
the thousand dollar lace is said to have &C.
cupied the time of one woman for three
years.
The lace-makers of Venice ere fairly
born into the trade, spend their lives in it
and die in it. There are photographs here
which show the women at their work,
nearly always ON the galleries in front OF
their suburban houses. As girl the lace
maker earns perhaps 20cents day. When
she is able to take up the finer work she
may earn from 40 to 80 cents, and as q
masterworkman so to speak her stipend
will be 60 cents day. The firm making
this exhibit employs over 1900 women.
Here are exquisite little doylies, about
six inches square, selling at $3.50 each.
a table cloth and a dozen napkins to
match are marked S130. and are cheap ct
that figure. Three and half yards of
founce and two and a half yards Of mar
rover edging to match, six yards alto
gether, are worth $1,000 4 pair Of en-
broideried curtains, draped over an inn
provised window, have a value of $500.
Both curious and beautiful is piece of
polychrome lace, body Of black and all the
into it.
There are many other lines of work In
which the Italians show their patience.
their true art instinct, their Eghtness OF
touch. Their mCsaics are marvellous.
Many ornamental pieces Of furniture are
Of ebony inlaid with silver. gold or other
material. The workmanship IS elaborate
and intricate, but the result is not allur-
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ing are the specimens Of flowers. portraits
and figures produced by inlaying colored
marbles in slab Of white. The effect is
ike that of a good oil painting. The art
ist often spends month, it IS said, looking
for single piece of marble, perhaps no
larger than finger nail, which has Just
the tint wanted for d particular place
These are the famous Florenfine mosaics
In front Of the italian pavilion, which il
one OF the most beautiful in the building.
are seen two new and notable pieces OF art
tile work. They are mosaics in lnajolica
ware, made b. a Neapolitan, Ale MoiIica
by name. One picture IS a great Roman
scene, composed OF sixty panels, each
weighing fourteen pounds, and the value
Of the whole n so. 600. Zach panel, after
being painted, has TO be burned and
burned, many times over before IL takes
on the color desired A small piece of this
work the artist sold TO the royal family Of
Greece for s. 0O
The Italians have here only 100 square
feet Of surface. but they have made OF that
small section a garden which blooms with
art and fills all the surroundings with the
aroma Of its high aspiration and wen
derfuI achievement.
Waller WELLMAs