The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11

The industrial work, using the term IN
it's broadcast sense, is receiving more at
tention this year than has ever been de-
voted to it in the history of thte university
summer school. Miss Helen M. Maxwell
has charge of the weaving and basketry
work, Mrs. Margaret j. Blair is again
instructing in sewing and James n.
Tate is giving several courses in shop
work. In all of these classes the students
seem very enthusiastic about their work
and their enthusiasm certainly does not
wane with the enormity of their tasks,
but rather increases in proportion.
Some of the students in Mr.. Tates
classes have come without any knowledge
Of sloyd work or mechanical drawing,
while others have taught in schools and
feel the need OF other ideas and methods
There are a number of university stu
dents too, who are either making up work
or spending the summer in the shop to
lessen the labors of the coming year. This
is why Mr.. Tate's work is of widely diff
ferent character in the separate classes.
There are many neat specimens on MS
table, some illustrating the work OF the
beginner, who constructs the simplest
forms, the flower pot stand and the towel
roller; then, there are specimens of carv-
ing from drawings made with instruments
and from free-hand designs. He has
some paper knives carved from mechani-
cal designs of which he Is very proud, and
there are also panels carved from free
hand designs of cat tails, feur de lis and
oak leaves It is probable that some of
the specimens now exhibited in Mr.. Tate's
office will find their way to st. Louis. in
the exhibition that the university will
make there.
This art work is a popular branch Of
the study and young women often join
these classes, altho so far this year there
is but one who has dared the dangers OF
/ 1t,cf re
A small class in pattern making is TAX
ing work under Mr.. Tate and among them
is a teacher who is studying with the idea
of giving his high school boys an oppor-
tunity of becoming acquainted with this
| important art. This branch of the work
was begun only last year at the summer
| school during the N. E. A: AS yet the
foundry has not been opened, altho work
| is going on in the machine shop.
If the girls do not show an unusual in
,terest in the art of wood carving, they
make up for that delinquency in their de-
/ delight in the raffia work and the sewing.
/ Miss Maxwell is teaching the industrial
4 work just as it is done in the Minneapolis
\ public schools. The young women be-
/ gin with the simplest work. the paper
| weaving. taken up in the first grade. 1t is
/ napkin rings, unusually strong, made out
! of paper by a process known as double
| weaving and put together with no hang
| ing ends and no rough edges. Then single
/ paper weaving is done and that opens a
scope for the use of color and pretty pat
| terms. Next holders are made of wool
yarn and these make useful gifts, too
! The pupils m e, also, blankets in, wool
rugs in WOO and silkaline, working in
Il stripes or some figure that strikes the
fancy. Dolls blankets are woven from
the delicate colors in Saxony wool anc
these the little girls are anxious to Sc
4 o,,ra for their doll houses They make
doll hammocks with the same luxurious
hollow that larger ones always ought tc
have and on these little looms raffia car
pets can be woven to cover the floors Of
the dolls apartment
After these steps the basket work is
begun In the schools only one or two
stitches were taught in a year and tn
students at the summer school take the
work up slowly. It is too well known
j what artistic results it is possible to gel
in basket work to need repeating. Some
of the girls have made the dearest little