Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-07-06
ARTS AND CRAFTS VILLAGE.
Interesting Group Of Unique Buildings
at jamestown Exposition.

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Interesting Group Of Unique Buildings
at jamestown Exposition.
Norfolk, Va, July 5,-The first build
ings to be completed at the James
town exposition present a unique
group, called the Arts and Crafts vii
lage. In the early colonial days men
and women made by hand almost tv-
cry article which entered into the
furnishing of their homes and the pro-
vidin g of their wearing apparel and
even for their ornaments. And before
the landing of the whites in America
the Indians made with their own
hands their clothing, cooking utensils,
baskets, pottery and objects of olna-
ment for their persons and for their
tepees. Some of these things are nov
worth their weight in gold and are in
great demand by those who appreciate
art and things artistic.
Perhaps the whites never assimilat-
ed the artistic instincts of the savages
in the making of useful objects. or
that the artistic ideas of the more
civilized race found expression through
other mediums. At all events the
whites fell far short of the Indians in
handiwork. Some very fine specimens
OF workmanship, however, were pro-
duced by the early settlers of Amer
lea.
While the rudest couches, tables and
chairs might suffice for John Smith
and his followers, the advent of gen.
tie women at jamestown changed the
complexion of things and created a
demand for articles of beauty and art.
The manner of making these things
and the articles themselves are to be
shown at the jamestown exposition,
in the Arts and Crafts village.
In the cotton states of the south the
cotton was carded, spun and woven
into fabrics of varied and artistic mer-
it, the work all being lone by hand.
This was for the summer clothing.
Wool was washed, carded, spun and
woven into winter wearing material,
also without the aid of machinery.
In those days the spinning wheel and
old hand loom were objects Of use and
not ornament. Hand made carpets of
artistic design and superior workman
ship were in general use, where the
~householders We're wealthy enough to
afford such a luxury. In the textile
building of the Arts and Crafts vii
lage will be seen this work and the
fruits of the old hand loom. Carpets,
rugs, blankets, shawls, linseys, WOOL
seys, towels, cottonades and numerous
other articles made from cotton and
wool will be made in the Olden way
at the jamestown exposition. The
carding room. the weaving room and
the dye house will all be as they were
in centuries gone by.
The Iron Workers building will con.
(. tain much of intense interest in the
way OF quaint andirons, door knock
: ers. knobs, hitching posts and other
f articles of common use in the old col
I, onial days.
s The copper, silver and wood work.
Z ing shops, the largest of the village,
will show how chairs, tables and other
articles of wood INT many things made
! of silver and copper were made in the
olden times.
In the pottery building will be made
4 beautiful Indian pottery of unique de
signs nodded by hand and artistically
colored and finished. The pottery
s building and the iron workers building
n are each As X so feet. The textile
building is SO X So feet, and the cop
per, silver and wood working shops
G are "A X 1877 feet. These pretty build.
ings are in themselves works of art
n and peculiar attractiveness and are SO
4 unique as to excite general admira.
ton.
Thus, the jamestown exposition will
interject a phase of the seventeenth
century into the twentieth century and
will show the changes which three
=, hundred Years have made in the me
ehanical world. What is shown here
, may inculcate an artistic spirit in mod.
ern manufacture and at the same time
= teach the user of home made articles
the value of them and make him proud
of wearing the best that is made.
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