Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-18
THINGS OF WILLOW.
Whole Rooms Fitted Nowadays win
Furniture of This Material.

surely" said a willow worker. you
are quite right In considering articles
Of willow as among the beautiful
things. They are graceful and light,
and at the same time substantial and
durable
"Thlngs made OF willow finished in
the natural color Of the wood look cool
and charming and they have an APP
pearanoe OF delightful freshness that Is
found in no other material that know
Of. OF course the willow Is delicate in
It's whlteness, and in this state II would
in season lose It's first yelyety sort OF
freshness,
but willow takes stains beautifully
the tans and. greens and other colors
that are most appropriate TO IT, and VII
low furniture finished In these tlnts Is
scarcely less pleasing 70 the eye than
that made Of the material in its original
purity
Reeds, growing, as you know, Of uni
form dimensions, can be prepared Tor
use in basket work largely by machin-
cry, but this would not be true as TO
willow Machinery Is used to some ex-
tent In preparing willow for use, as
for Instance, In cutting the SURFACE
strips that are plated into table tops
and that sort OF things. bat willow rods,
round willow, cannot be handled IN that
manner The rods are not uniform IN
dimensions from end to end--they Ia
per; nor are the rods absolutely UNIFORM
In size one with another. These must
all be worked by hand. As Il matter of
fact many strips, too, are still cut IN
that way. with the materials for them
thus prepared, and carefully hand
wrought as they are throughout, 1t
would seem reasonable to describe these
beautiful things Of willow productions
of art.
MANY baskets Of one sort and an
other In the almost endless variety Of
forms and manner Of ornamentatlon In
to which basket work Is put come from
Germany, but France is yet, neNerthe-
less, as II has always been, the home OF
the artistic In basket work. We make,
however. now, beautiful things In bas-
ket work in this country, ana In articles
OF utility and things of more or less
practical character combining use with
decoration orN ornamental effects, we
make here things quite as fine as pro-
duced anywhere as in all manner of
willow furniture and fittings and so on.
"All these things we produce In the
most graceful style and the most com.
Portable shapes. OF course willow and
rattan chairs and that sort Of thing
are old. time honored, but we make
them all now in greater variety than
formerly; we make a greater variety Of
things than we did and people go in for
these things more than ever, more par
ticularly, of course, In country houses.
Rattan has been more used for some
Of these purposes, but now, again, we
use more willow, and there Is nothing
but what can be made Of this material
1t is easily possible to furnish a room
with II. We make bedsteads Of willow
and OF course, and endless variety of
chairs and lounges, and that sort OF
thing including tables. We make will
low bureaus and chffoniers and willow
wall panels and picture frames and
willow chandeliers and gas fixtures and
so on In fact in all but the floor COW
ernRs for which mattIngs are used, we
can furnish rooms complete.
"And," said the willow man In con-
cluslon, while this might not be the
cheapest outfit you could buy, | don't
suppose you could find anything cooler
more comfortable or more pleasing to
the eve"