The sun., 1901-11-03
BEAD WORK MADE AN ART NOW
BEAJTIFJL Rags AND PURSES
FOR WOMEN TINS SEASON.
Designs and Ha ndIcraft That Put tbe Read
Work OF Our GrandmOthers Into the
shade Hands me Mountings Pro, ided
The Work Boon for some Women.

Work OF Our GrandmOthers Into the
shade -HandsO me MountinEs Pro, ided
The Work q Boon for some Women.
The beaded bags and purses which have
steadily been gaining in favor during the
last few wears have this fall attained the
proportions OF a fad They are more
beautiful and elaborate than ever before
and the best designers in the city are puz-
zling their brains over mountlngs Tor them
while manufacturers are turning out ma
chine crocheted beaded articles by the
thousand
The best Of the bags are hand made
and the amount of work put into them
renders even the simplest OF them ok
pepsive The more elaborate patterns
In combination with costly mountings
represent appalling figures IN their prices.
One famous firm which was perhaps
the first in the country TO start the renais-
sance of the beadNork ims brought the art
TO n remarkable degree OF perfection Its
bead crocheting Is all done as piece work.
That is, the workers do not work in
shop or factory but each woman receives
her beads and design and does her work
AT home. The workers have all been trained
and an outsider can rarely come in and
take up the work with satisfactory results
from he start.
1T has taken practically fifteen years
TO work up this industry said the super
intendent who has charge Of the depart
ment. There were no workers sufficiently
skilled to make bead work fine art ana
thai was what we wanted II to ne.
"Our great grandmothers used to carry
beaded bags, and il was the fashion for gen
tlemen 10 do bead work, but II was crude
sort of work. Samples of u float IN here
occasion ally. now that the fad mas revly"n.
Women have kept them a. family relics,
vou know, and bring them in here 20 he
remoirted Usually the silk ON which 'h"
bead, we're crochetHd IL rotted 20 that on"
can hardly touch it without dainag'nr 70,
but we apply ii 20 firm SILK, Inc II, mount
il. and II win hold together.
Here 5 very old piece that was brough'
in Yesterday
Ho unfoldcd tissue paper and showed
! n large unmountod bead bag, on which
crimson roses, bright blue birds and purple
uIes rio,ed over q dark blue background
There was a suggestion Of faded ru--
leaves and lavender about II, flavor ~
artimacas-ais, and old mahogany iuTl-
ru,p. and poke borret-. and hoop skr's,
and wax hoNe-- under glnss case,
lust compare th" two, said the super
nt.ndcut.
He laid beside The oil lag new "r"
over which Jiuy arbutus sprays nm cora.
wrr, scattered, uH ground OF 'fNe'1I
aud ,',,,. while .uc superb silver mount
| W. inset with COAL mrdallions
There Was No. lavender about the nrF
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