The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-10

no much AZ even aakinr her name or where she
lived the manager promptly engaged her services
Take six pieces, bolts, Of that pique, and go
along with this lady and put IL down where she
says, he told clerk and he asked that she should
make up the cloth In child's frocks OF assorted
sizes, braided and chain stitched as she saw IT.
Can your French machine do this sort Of work
on wooden stuGs or thin texturcsT he asked when
the FIRST lot Of newly completed pique frocks was
put In stock and on being told that it could, so
many orders were given that the French girl was
overwhelmed with work. and had 20 secure help
She made at this time SIS a day by working
t.blc time but she qua rded her machine carefully.
She would permit no one TO examine II and II
stranger appeared In her workplace for any pur-
pose the precious braider was covered over before
the worker went 70 speak with him. In few
months she had sent abroad for other machines
and had taught a half dozen apprentices The hand
part Of the work ~ familiar to her few years
later fifty Bonnaz machines all run by women
whom this pioneer had trained. and kept In order
by Frenchmen whom she had picked ZIP here
and there were kept busy In this factory and other
manufacturers had taken her cue and become
apt at braiding and embcllishing American goods
and garments
This Frenchwoman is still a foremost figure
in the Bonnaz trade and has never lost grasp OF
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taors and furnshers and from the dry goods
Arms that cater 10 the most luxurious city trade.
Her factory is not down among the others in the
Wholesale district but established in new and com
Portable apartments within easy reach OF this class
OF custom As the retailers dealers and modistes
moved further up town she moved with them.
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or belt that the worker Is embroidering. again the
frames will be Of wide extent in order to accommo
date the fun width Of dress skirt or tunic and
the worker will have TO stoop over II iaboriousiy.
Sometimes the work is all done from underneath,
again all applied on the top surface Thick goods
laid on thin lustrous or dun finish fabrics gradu-
ated tones OF the same color contrasting tints and
textures the patterns deity etched out with tiny
gimpe headings cordings and hand over hand
offered a wide field to choose from.
and the designer has 10 exercise much Judgment
in order 10 secure the best effects with most profit
able results
The skilled workers in the best factories all look
refined and pleasantly circumstanced. There is
an army of ordinary helpers, trained to do the
marking out Of pa terms. the clipping of threads,
the cutting away of under surfaces and the less
responsible branches of the work These also RIM
the simplest machines on ordinary grade fabrics,
and get the foundation stuffs ready for embelliyh
ment and do the general filling in that is needed
Their employment is merely mechanical and their
places could be supplied at any time but the skilled
workers are another matter Many of the latter