The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
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Iuman interest stories nj the Arts and
Crafts Exhibition -EmbrOsderies OF
Arcade ond New England Indian and
other Pottery -AchIoV ements Of Women
AZ the first exhibit OF the National Society
Il Craftsmen at l1s East Nineteenth street,
Slnost every piece Of handiwork has a
hrman interest story behind II. There are,
tor instance. the Aoadian weaving N the
1ewcomb embroideries.
Ever since the days OF Evangeline the
kcadian women have beer weaving in their
souisisna homes. Not long q they were
Recovered by a woman who lives on Al
sland In the Gulf Of Mexico, Mrs. Sarah
livery Leeds. She brought their work to
xgh1 and In introducing It 10 the art craft
Invoices OF the country.
They weave soft, tufted cotton counter
>snes and all sorts OF quaint cotton home
materials. In fact, it Is the weaving
the North q hundred years & preserved
"a adapted to cotton yarn instead OF
Rcollen.
The Newoomb girls seized upon this
omespun as we'll as other quaint and
usual materials wherever they could find
hsm for their embroideries. The New
omb potteries have long attracted alton
lon by originality OF design. The workers
the art department OF the Sophia New
Dmb College for girls. taking their designs
Som the luxuriant semi-tropioal vegetation
round them. produced noteworthy effects.
now they are sending out embroidcries In
bhich they follow the same plan.
The mxuriant buds Of the magnolia and
outhern jasmine and other beautiful flowers
the region are conventionalized in original
Bsigns. IL Is interesting to note their
inference from the prim blue and white Of
~ Deerfield embroideries beside them, in
vhich the women Of Deerfield. Mass, have
reated a renaissance Of the handioraft Of
5olonial New England.
Miss Josephine Foard has on exhibit her
rat display in New York Of Pueblo pottery
rom the Government kiln at Laguna, N. NJ.
Mia Is the first glazed pueblo pottery made
ince prehistoric times.
Miss Foard, who is a New Yorker, worked
EDr three years before she got the Govern
nent TO establish a kiln and make an ap-
rppriation for the purpose Of aiding the
INDIANS through the cultivation Of their
IRn peculiar industry.
Acoma, the youngest Of all the pueblos,
MIX Ohly " JCdls Oidf IL Duhb Oh bOP VI ~
utte 800 feet high. From the plain below
here is no access except by foot trail, and
10 that the women carry every drop Of
4ater used in great pottery jars borne upon
heir heads, just as they have done for two
INJURIES.
The white people round about declare
bat beans never taste 40 good as when they
IN baked in the two quart bean jars made
the Acoma women They also make
nnll bowls and vases to sell at the railroad
@otions.
The Pueblo women rave always fired their
|Dttery in their own way. They placed a
ice on a stone and covered it with fuel;
Hcn another and so on till their baking was
IN place. Then they covered the mound
NIB stones, tin cans and anything at hand,
ot fire TO the fuel and let il shoulder till
y pottery was red hot.
Before it was fairly cool they often had il
kacked and were started on an eighteen
bile walk to the railroad station to sell it.
was fragile and not water tight. Much
n was broken in firing and transportation.
lnce Miss Foard returned to Laguna last
ammer. built her kiln and hired her helper,
{enei. a graduate OF Carlisle, she has been
Iszing the pottery, strengthening il and
IMPROVING it in other ways, and demanding