New-York tribune., 1900-09-02
MAKING EMBROIDERY PAY.
MRS KELLOGG HAS JUST BUILT AN
ARTISTIC HOME FROM THE PRO
CEEDS OF HER WORK

It has fallen to the lot of comparatively few
women to build houses with their earnings,
and in those few instances there is probably not
more than one built and furnished with money
earned by embroidery. Mrs. Clara L. Kellogg. liv
ing in quaint Massa chusetts town, claims the dis
tinction for her home.
The house has all the modern conveniences, includ-
ing an elevator, but is built somewhat in the fash
ion of English country houses of century ago.
There is no drawing room but instead large
old fashioned living room. This. with a music
room and dining room occupies the first floor. The
sleeping rooms the second floor, and the
third floor is given up to Mrs Keoggs business.
Many of the ornaments throughout the house were
brought from Europe, and there is fine collec-
ton OF old china picked up during various trips.
All the embroidery, of which there is an abundance,
was done by Mrs. Kellogg. The dining room,
which Is finished in Flemish oak is the owners
faVorite room, she is fond of entertaining, and
rather prides herself her housekeeping, al
though a business
Mrs Kellogg was only fourteen years old when
she began the work. and year later started out
as teacher, forming classes in several of the
towns Westfed. She found that to
keep her pupils she must be prepared to teach them
always something new, she went for a term
to the best teacher that to he had in Boston
After teaching her class all that she had acquired
there she New-York and after that she
went abroad, took lessons at several of the best
schools for designing in England and on the Con-
tinent. and returning. taught as before. Her
classes became large that she often worked
twenty hours out of the twenty-four as, after
finishing the actual classwork she had to do her
stamping and designing and to read and think
out the little talks that she gave at each lesson
Then her designs began to attract attention and
she had many orders for finished work that she
decided to give up teaching.
Only few of her workers in Westfield. The
others scattered throughout the country, in
nearly every State in the Union. She makes the
designs, stamps the articles. selects the silks
creWels and sends them to the girls. She has sales
women to dispose of her work and to solicit orders.
none of IL is ever to be had in stores.
The saleSwomen all whom the
best houses are open, and they all make good in
comes. The one who at present is doing the best
work is a Western woman, and Week-her
star week. she calls it-she sold 81 200 worth of
work. besides getting many large orders
The largest orders often come through architects
who have finished handsome home, where
the wishes the style of architecture carried
out In the hangings and furnishings. Mrs. Kellogg
always has orders months. almost years, ahead.
and many Of the women who do the actual
broidery are dependent on it for their living.
My newest stitch said Mrs Kellogg to Trib-
une reporter 'is the bulb stitch, and is entirely
my own; 1t win not be in any of my work until
the holiday season. Every one who has 1t
tells me that it is beautiful, and think 1t most
effective, especially in cut work, of which /
doing so much this season. Then. too, am using
notifications of Russian and Bulgarian stitches.
These. with silks and creweis in the soft Oriental
coloTs, make most effective pieces for rooms fin
shed in hard. dark woods. I keep three hundred