The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-21

weaver is ready to commence. Beginning
at the left. the needle Is run through
three beads, which are brought up be-
tween the five threads forming the warp,
with a thread on the outside. The needle
is then put through the beads again, this
time above the warp. and pulled tight. |
Great care must be taken that the thread
is first under and then over the warp.
Where it is necessary to use a new thread.
the old one may be fastened by running
1t back two or three rows and the new one
woven in after the same manner.
With loom a chain may be woven all
in one piece and then the weaver does not
have to bother with the trouble of joining
1t. A novel way of binding a chain to-
gether is to weave a bar, or what answers
to the slide of a watch chain.
The beads are purchased by the ounce.
and it requires the expenditure of several
dollars to furnish one with a good work
ing assortment of colors. After is
stocked with a variety of colors, a bead
chain is an inexpensive ornament to make,
for the number of beads in each is not
large.
Some Beaded Novelties.
Fashion writer's from New York declare
that the beaded belts will be a feature of
the summer gowns, and number of the
weavers are already at work. Another
novelty that several Of the girls are max
ing is a band about ee-quarters of an
inch wide to be worn at the top Of the
stock in the same fashion as a protection
collar A beaded watch fob is another
bit Of bright color which the tailor made
girls have adopted, and it is woven in the
! same manner. A short fringe finishes one
end, and at the other the warp is twisted
| together to form cord, which is tied
| through the witch ring.
Miss Helen Higbee has recently opened
a class in bead work at the Y. w. G.. A.
| HjGbae in act
last summer and this winter she has been
| besieged with requests for lessons. Miss
| Mann also has classes, and the proceed
are given to the Woman's society of the
First Presbyterian church. There are any
number Of other women who are teach
Ing their friends, who, in turn, teach
others.
| Some of the prettiest chains have been
made by Miss Emma Roberts. Miss Rob-
erts had charge of the bead work at
| the Arts and Crafts exhibition, and her
case was always surrounded by an eager,
curious crowd, commenting on the diff
| ference between the old and the modern,
the work of the Indian and Of the white
| woman.
Some Treasured Antiques.
The exhibition brought out some ex-
ceedingly interesting specimens of COL
onial work which had been tucked away
in attic boxes and trunks There were
bags. representing flowers and landscapes
which the colonial belle carried to her
assemblies and teas, and ether bags in
black and purple beads showing funeral
urns, weeping willows and other mourn
ing emblems More than one woman
| looked at these bags and said with re-
greet: Il. wish I had known they were
going to show such things. have a
bag my grandmother made, but land
II haven't thought of 1t these twenty
hortc IL
her collection before the exhibit closed if
she had had room for it, and as it was,
she opened the case more than once to
slip in contribution brought down by
some one eager to let the public see an
ancient treasure.
Mrs. Philip Hunt has one of these rare
OLD bead bags which she sent to Tiff
fanys and had mounted into modern
hand purse The colonial bellies finished
their bags by lining the bead work with
buckskin, running a bit of bright silk
at the top and putting in a shirr string.
" 1t was not as ornate a method as that of
the modern silversmith, but it was more
characteristic.
These beaded bags were knitted or
seWed, cross stitch fashion on unbleached
muslin from which threads had been
drawn to form canvas where the bag
was knitted. a colored pattern was made
which must have looked not unlike 2
were threaded on the knitting silk as
the pattern directed. It was a serious
matter If green bead slipped on in the
wrong place for it was then more ant tc
come in the cheek of the fair damse
n plucklng roses from beside the meeting
n house steps than in the rose bush. The
!, beads were knit off to a pattern also
q The same method is followed to-day il
q Italy. where one may buy a pattern ant
~ q ball of silk already threaded with beads
" 1t is impossible to find beads as small a.
- those used by our great grandmothers i,
this country and one woman who wished
to mend her old bag hunted through tn
shops in several cities. She found tn
smallest beads in a quaint little place il
: Boston, but even they were size large
d than those in her bag, and she was tol,
!. that the smallest beads were never i'm
> ported, 20 this country. One cannot ge
q the same effect with the larger beads
s but they answer every purpose for chain
= and bands, and there are few women VIII
l. have either the time or the inclination
= to sit down deliberately and duplicate on
e Of these old bags with the meeting-hous
IS and its spire lost in a, tangle of roses O
St with row of gorgeous tropical birds
'e whose many colored feathers are copie
4 with an exactness which speaks volume
n for the patience and color sense of tn
re knitter.
6 Among those who have interesting spec
al linens of this old time art work are Mines
J William c. Whitney, l.. o. Merriam, Fred
erick Starr, A. E. Clerihew, the Mise
y Emma Paige. Emily Mcmillan, Elizabet
n Northrop, Sterrett, Helen Trasl, Allie
Van Anda, Florence Wales,i Van VIE an
, Katherine Todd.