New-York tribune., 1906-12-09
A SALE OF LACES.
WOrk of Green1cich House Handi-
craft School Is Varied.

The handicraft school of Greenwich House. at
Nos rs and % Jones street will hold a sale OF hne
laces, cut work. filet pillow lace. hand woven rugs
sofa cushions. etc. at the rooms of Miss Carroll
No. IS West 53d street, December 10 to L. In
elusive. from 10 a.. m. 10 p. m
In the rear of Greenwich House, across the brlcK
paved yard, stands tiny shop. a place or low
ceilings, ladderike stairs and small windows
Within there are open CRATES OF glowing Goals.
shelves filled with old brasses and bits of china,
and lockers heaped with old embroideries and new
hand woven stuffs. And here is the home or the
handicraft school
The school was started in June Of 1905 Then
summer free classes in lace making were held for
two months, but no regular employment was
offered. Instead. such work was purchased from
the women completed satisfactorily.
That experimental stage over. and the practical
Of such school being amply demonstrated.
the school started as a regular handicraft school
the following October with sessions five days a
week. Since It opened forty-two pupils have been
registered. There now sixteen women and
girls who working there all or part of the time.
besides seven training classes in rug making. dye
ing and lace and embroidery.
Underlying the establishment of the school
school of lace making a threefold idea First
there was the thought that lace making would
prove to be a means of support to those and
girls who. through some physical disability. are
unable to enter the regular Industrial field. For
her back or Shortened m e the probe OF in NeW oR
York & is Is peculiarly pathetic one Generally speak
One of these deformed girls came the handi-
craft school when II first opened and is there STILL
capable and accomplished worker.
Ihen there are women who wish to supplement
small income by the practice of avocation,
and for these. too. there is small chance in the
open labor market. They apt be mothers of
FAMILIES. who could work afternoons perhaps. or
three days a week. but with whom the regular
work day is an impossbility. No factory or shop
VIII take them; consequently their free time goes
to waste.
1t Is just such wasted leisure that the handcraft
schCol seeks to turn to profitable use and IT is
any DONG this IN at least case, that of
whose husband earns steady, but small wage.
Her FAMILY Is small. she is glad to extra
dollar when she can, so she comes to the school
ana makes lace six hours day. There others
who come come regularly two or three days week
A third class whom the school Is especially
organized to develop skilled workers Those
q monopoly ability.
With the exception OF the girls who are taken
on trial, every lace maker is paid, the novices
They are paid by the piece and make from 81 to
$40 week.
Last year the pupils made Irish crochet Carrick-
macross and Limerick lace, Italian and Danish
cut work. flet and several kinds of pillow lace
This year they have added to their ACCOMPLISH
ments Venetian point and other fine laces. They
are also doing good deal in the copying of old
designs from medieval filet. AT present the pupils
are working on the most important order they
have ever received set of three fat curtains in
cut work and fet for the windows of a city house
These curtains will probably take two women four
months to complete The lower part of the pattern
consists Of squares of flet on which alIegorica