The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18

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the little new industry, and one woman
who works there, from indication mere
than necessity, is the lovely J, ing
daughter of the master workman. Mlle
Foussardier is both deaf and dumb, but
weaves, with deft artistic fingers that
astonishes older artists.
The question Of this tapestry Weav-
ing as a new and paying vocation for
women is now being looked into. \ very
wealthy woman from st. Louis, deeply
interested in all such Announcements.
has been inquiring of the promoter of
the industry here for her sex. The
master workman says he is very will
! ing to try any of the women VINO want
| to learn They shall be put at equal
rates with the men who are appren-
| tees, working the same number of
| hours.
+ In France women have never been
employed except as seamStreSses to
mark the splits caused by changing
| colors. I asked him why this was so.
Il couldn't definitely say" he answer
! ed. Men have been the workers at
the looms by tradition in France. The
weavers at Gobelin and Aubussen have
! been born on the looms, so to speak.
Their fathers were weavers before them
and the art is handed down as a legacy.
| Why women should not fill the posi-
/ lions 1 see no reason. Their sense of
/ selection in color is usually finer and
more discriminating than mans. But
ithey should begin quite early in life, l
1 think, ten years being about right.
I 1T takes fully four years to serve
| ones apprenticeship, and few women
4 who are past 20 want to take the time
Ito start"
| Should the plan of this rich woman
4 succeed, the result would be admirable.
\ Her scheme is this: To take overworked
ement rooms, where they live underfed
and scantily clothed, and place them in
| clean. little houses about a factory, Civ
| ing them good work and good food.
stu the industry is too new in Amec~-
| lea to provide for any corps of work.
ers, hut the owners are going to show
the millionaires. here that it will be
possible to sell them as fine bits of tap
estry as are now being made in France.
As to the personnel of the factory. it
has only SIX looms. and they are of the
low weave. The French are tradition
airy in their methods Of working and
have progressed little from the manner
Of the older days Of weaving 1t is an
interesting fact that the loom Mile
Foussardier Weaves at is almost identi-
cal with the one used by Penelope. M.
Foussardier lives there with his family.
and an interesting addition are six lit
tie boys from the Catholic orphan asy-
lum who have been apurenticed
! through the interest of Mr.. John n.
| Crimmins These children are already
making sa,able chair covers The boys
got 81 week for the first year and are
/ now getting SO. Each year it will be
| raised. promise of IS a week Being
made for the fourth year
4 The Frenchmen are delighted with
! the effect of the Bronx river water in
| dyeing IT is well known that this is
i an essential element and that the super
/ iority of the dyes of the Gobelin is as
4 crieed chiefly to the properties of the
water from ia Bievre" in tne suburbs
! Of St. Marcel. where a family of the
!. name of GNbelin established dive works
! in the fifteenth century Consider
4 therefore. what it means for America
when the master workman pvonounces
! the Bronx water superior t. tho Eievre
! and in turn. his dyes TO the 9Gei0esins
/ Another department omen for adler
women is the preparing of the cartoon
This is row being dene in a Fifth ave-
+. ME studio by men. IL
/ II. HALLMARK.