New-York tribune., 1902-08-03

| with the belongings of the house The furniture
s pan hung s'S9d %s Oy @a
! decorations were supplied by samplers. An odd
| exhibition was copied has recently been burned.
that this piece Of work is all that remains of
The rugs snasl. made great showing: The PeeraeId
/ transfgured The aim and object Of the old fash
/ toned rag carpet worker to crowd the great
schemes of the most estbetc Kind aTe What JGlor P
seek. and what they find. The rugs show the soft
| est shadings of delicate colors.
| In basketwork Deerrield has done much. The
! women used formerly to pleat palm baskets of
white straw. and did good work in it, indeed,
But they soon branched out into rama work Now
they produce baskets of curious shape and wonde
most part made by the workers themselves. and
! prizes were given this year for the best.
BEATEN METAL WORK
The president of the society Mrs Wynne is re-
! sponsble with her co-worker Miss Putnam for
the beaten metal work. They exhibited some ex-
quisite bits of jewery, all fashioned with the Deer
field feeling for artistic perfection in every detail
In furniture, the department given to
copies of the best bits in Deerfeld
shown. notably bride chest, initiated from one in
! the DeerieId Museum.
Miss Ellen Starr. who comes from DeerfeId
family, showed some of her bookbndings. not done
at Deerfeld. but belonging by right in the exhibit
ton. The Misses Allen, who well known
photographers. showed good deal of their work,
some of it types of country life. and some land
scapes These artists for their pictures of the
oldtime Deerfeld settings. and pose Deer
! field women in old gowns found in Deerfeld attics
Everything centres round the village The
women have simply developed to the utmost the
opportunities around them No did the
spirit of craftsmanship make its into the viii
blacksmith has the enthusiasm like every else
truly from his own designs yet, except in
| instances. but he follows faithfully the patterns
he tries to draw his own improving the while He
frequently gives an artistic finishing touch to de-
signs him.
II made the top of this like clover he
little clover outside my shop door and thought it
was pretty enough to put into the design ,,t+.
to the success of the work She is also Deerfeld
Mrs Henry by an odd coincidence if, indeed. it is
coincidence. numbers dyers among her ancestors.
coIors she produces are exquisite. but of
them cost her weeks of experimenting
TO LEARN SWEDISH WEAVING
Picturesque figures at the exhibition were two
Swedish girls, who teaching the DeerfieId peo
pie Swedish weaving. This is not like the others.
entirely a Deerfield production, but the work
will be Deerfeld people. it is not much of
departure from the rule that the industries should
be Of home origin. 1t seems rather likely that
Deerfed will grow be a sort of Mecca for
craftsmen and that like will attract like. But the
village determined to be less Deereldian for
that reason. Indeed. it would be hard for the
workers lose any part of the village flavor
With Memorial Hall furnish them models. with
to them from their forefaners 1t is not likely that
Deerfeld people will become less individual
Indeed the Hon George Sheldon. the untlring anti
quaran of the town, says that manual art began at
Deerfeld in times, and as the hrst example
of wood carving points to a door in the museum,
hacked with the tomahawks of the Indians; who
hole and through 1t shot the unf3rtdnates
within the house. The old door is the shoWplece
of the museum. and is certainly carved
But to leave crafts for moment, TO woman
the most interesting thing among the antiquities OF
Deerfeld is the little ragged shoe worn by chlld
who of the captiveS taken TO, anG subSe-
quentIy returned from. Canada, after the massacre
of 17O3-'Ot She this shoe on the marcn, ana
she only four years old. -,
one OF the first principles of the organization
of Arts and Crafts is that the woman VINO makes
a rug. basket a bit of blue ana whlte %oIk VOTE
shall If possible, make her own design A soou
deal of emphasis laid this point. and the re-
suit is that artistic talent is being developed IN al
quarters Sometimes. especially When ne"
scheme is started the workers cannot do this tnen
they are helped by those who are more Skilled ouI
this is discouraged far as possible
ANY one Is welcome to come UP mere and WORK
with us said one OF the prime workers IN the So
ciety I'VE would a great deal rather have WORK
or than a buyer." And indeed the most hospitaoie
welcome awaits any who journey along the ii OoT-
necticut and up the pleasant valley where the VII
lage lies.