The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-10
DESIGNS FOR TABLE LINEN.
Clever Artist Who Earns Large sum
Annually.
From the Chicago {

From the Chicago Chronicle.
Miss Glenrose Bell Is a fortunate
young woman who makes money at de-
signing
Miss Bell is one of the very few art
lists in America who design exclusively
for table linen, and so charmingly eff
fective and Adaptable is her work that
she has been solicited several times
over Ito furnish designs for famous Eu-
ropean houses. She is, however, under
contract to one of the largest firms in
America with whom she has arranged
for the sole right to her clever sketches,
and earns very large yearly income.
Miss Bell has been passionately de-
voted to drawing from childhood and
has had the benefit of a course in art
at the Art institute of Chicago, and
later on won her B. A. at the univer-
slty. She, however. never had any spe-
cific training in design, but seems to
have been born with the gift fully de-
veloped. Her father, who is at the head
of the linen department in a large es-
Enlistment, brought home one day,
while she was still in the high school,
an unsatisfactory design, and asked if
she could not readapt 1t. She made the
attempt, and was so successful that
she began at once to try her hand at
original designs, and was delighted to
find that they met with immediate and
eager acceptance.
What are my methods? Well, fash
ion, you know, changes nearly as often
in table linen as in sleeves. There is
always some prevailing idea that runs
through all lines of artistic manufac-
ture-wall papers, carpets, furniture,
draperies, etc. It seems to be in the air
and not infrequently originates in the
arts themselves. For example, take the
empire rage or few years ago, when
Napoleon articles flooded the maya
zines. and Ms bowknots, wreaths,
etc., We're endlessly repeated i'm the arts
and crafts. AS reaction from the
small, delicate, conventional patterns
of that period, everything now must be
on large scale and done with a free
hand. My table linen designs must, OF
course, be more or less determined by
the general trend of public taste. The
poppy and chrysanthemum, naturally
grouped, were among the most popular
of my last years designs and / expect
these orchids to have a similar vogue
next season. 1t usually takes me about
10 days to complete a design. l then
enlarge it to the size it will be in the
tablecloth, drawing with hard pencil
ON medium cardboard one full corner,
with a corresponding portion of the
center. In exactly this form it goes to
our manufacturers in Ireland and Scot
land. The difference in the size of the
cloth is made by increasing or dimin-
ishing the space between the border
and the center Whenever it is possible
l draw directly from nature. frequently
using colors in the beginning for the
better study of shading. Yes the work
keeps me occupied the year round, al
though l am much buster at some sea-
sons than at others. Just now for in
stance, have orders for large num-
Der OF designs that must be sent to our
manufacturers in Europe at the earliest
possible moment, in order to be ready
for next years trade. l am therefore
forced to use every bit of available day-
light"