The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-21

tiny spinning wheel. The association
has been at work about six years. Il is
interesting 10 know that all the thread
used IN the embroidery is hand dyed
with indigo by one woman in DeerheId.
The workers make bedspreads. table
ciotns and centerpieCes. dOilies. curtains
and hangings Of all kinds.
Meanwhile a thought occurred 10
some other fertile Drained Yankee wo-
men II Deerfield blue and white colo
maj neediework was so fashionable
and profitable. were there not also pos
sloie REVEALS OF other colonial indus
tries IN the village which would bring
IN their price? The colonial mothers
wove and braided rag rugs and carpets
for their floors. and their descendants
use the same kind Of fiOor coverings 70
this day. these articles being both cheap
and durable Now. why could net he
old time floor coverings be made com
mercially profitable tOo2 The reputa-
ton OF DeerTieid embroideries noatad
the Deerneld homemade and handmade
rugs. The women turned their atten-
ton 10 making these as artistic and at
traetive as possible. and presently they.
too. became a noted product OF the
Deerheid women's hand industries. All
the floor coverings are woven upon
hand looms generations old. Weaving
is pleasant work AMI the russ that
the women turn out sell from s. TO 81
apiece.
There We're yet other colonial handi-
crafts that could be revived profitabiv
II was found. There was the making Of
baskets. braided in the same wav as
those straw hats We're which New E,ue-
land women used 20 ma 81 II home and
send their brothers "a college o. the
profits OF The Industry Now Deeffield
women are oraiding fancy baskets BY
hand-beautifuI ones. too-and sending
themselves or their daughters to col
lege with the money Other Deerfieid
women have gone into wood carving
and brasswOrk and are succeeding well
Finally the hand workers Of the little
old town became so artistic and so
prosperous that they united and formed
the Deerfeld Arts and Crafts society.
1t holds an annual exhibition that
draws visitors from far and near. It's
officers have now the general oversight
and direction of the colonial handicrafts
of the village
Two Deerfield women thus started the
present fad among the wealthy for old
fashioned handmade articles. The fad
has spread TO ali parts OF the Union. the
manufactures 10 several parts. The
homemade rug industry thrives espe-
cially. The women OF the Cranberry IS
lands add TO their pocket money by the
serviceabie hooked rugs" they make OF
rags In Center Lowell. Me. the Saba
tos rug. made by pulling yarn through
the meshes of coarse canvas. is vet
more in demand. A Sabatos floor COW
ering in size by feet sells FOR
$50 And since the fad began even
homemade flannel precisely like what
our gTandmothers made and could not
sell at all. brings in the market 81 50 10
- yard Meantime some capitalists
are about 10 set the women OF Ohio and
West Virginia 20 making wooIen tapes-
try with yarns spun from the fieeces of
their own sheep. The women viii be
taught how TO make the tapestry. This
last Is perhaps the crowning glory OF
the new handicraft movement.
The success Of the movement shows
that we have in America a class o.
population rich enough to indulge it's
tastes at any cost and that there are
women in the country with commercial
shrewdness enough 10 profit by the fan
cies OF the rich II means prosperity
for many OF the sex along line OF wo-
man. work that is as old as the world
The revival is remarkable on that ac-
count. LILLIAN GRAY.