Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1914-08-29
STRINC|NC PEARLS
Only the Choicest Silk Is Used
For the Best Jewels.
TYING KNOTS AS A FINE ART.
The Perfect Hang Of the Necklace De.
ponds Upon How These Tiny Twists
Are Formed. and Il May Take .
Year to Master tho knaek.

ponds Upon How These Tiny Twists
Are Formed. and /, MAY Take .
Year TO Master tho knaek.
The pearl stringers themselves call
IL "tradc They are not the kind OF
people 10 talk about art II they see
anything Of their work beyond the
prosait fact that "stringing" Is good
employment It is only an indirect
and somewhat vague appreciation of
the delicate attraction OF the pearls
they handle
Although not processing TO be expert
Judges. have never met pearl
strlnger yet whose eye and taste
We're not trained to Il fine perception
OF the form and color OF the beamy,
irldescent luster OF the jewel OF the
shelliish Ii would be as impossible
for them to mistake an artificial pearl
for II real one as It would be for q
lapidary to begin to polish a piece OF
glass under the impression II was a
diamond.
Ii Is often said that the little known
Industry Of pearl stringIng is dying
out. but this is not the fact. No ma.
chinery is yet invented to supersede
the ten clever fingers OF the practiced
stringer The industry Is exclusive
too. and 4 business has often been
passed on from mother 10 daughter.
even from grandmother 10 grandchild
Drilling and mounting OF pearls Ia
quite a different branch OF the indus
try
Good light is one OF the essential
needs Of the pearl stringer. especially
when she is employed In making or re
pairing seed pearl ornaments. All the
beads have 10 be arranged according
to their size and then separately and
most carefully sewed into place on
their dainty framework For instance,
II the design is that OF flower or leaf
the skill lies IN graduating from the
biggest peari 70 the one that touches
the extrene point Some OF these or
namentS. by the way, are very old for
II they IRE carefully handled there b
no reason why they should not be
joy II not forever. AT all events for as
long rs HE handsome, antique pen.
dants and pearl studded medals OF the
sixteenth aud seventeenth centuries
that one still admlres IN the British
only the finest silk Is used for string
ing the finest pearls Great beads.
round and shiny. Enthusiastically artit.
,tial and with no more real luster than
white marbles with the exception OF
what nre called Roman pearls. manu-.
many wears ago-may be al.
lowed to hang together on catgut. but
orients must be threaded, pearl kiss.
ing pearl. on silkcn strands worthy OF
their shape aud skin
Now the art OF the striuger lies In
the apparently simple manner OF tying
the knoi that attaches the snap. Some
times also she has TO make "A knot
between bead and bead. method that
adds 10 the length of the necklace, but
detrncts from the beauty OF the line OF
pearls The knaek Of making this tiny
knot VIII Perhaps take a girl year TO
the perfect hang OF the beads,
neither too loose nor too tight. depends
on how 1t Is made.
There IS no needle fine enough for
small seed pearls. so the
stringer makes her own out OF a piece
u wire rs thin as hair. She arranges
her pearls. IL they are of different
sizes. on grooyed board covered with
billiard table cloth. any other material.
such as green baize. being much too
coarse. When she Is making tasse
Or loops. It Is pretty TO watch her hold
her work ~ arms length every few
measuring its size and effect
with her We'll trained eye
II Is hardly necessary 10 speak OF the
strict integrity and unfailing care re.
luired IN pearl strlnger She is in
trusted with great possessions. for the
value ~ pearls Is continually on the IN.
Tease There are some ladies' who
never trust their treasures out OF their
leweler, for II pearl stringer TO call 50
many times year TO repair ornaments
Dr restging H.cklaces.
The work OF the pearl stringer Is so
little known. 50 quiet and dainty. that
Il Is doubtful II one In thousand
women Who stop to admire and coyet
~ they pass show windows ever gives
a thought to the patient fingers that
have threaded the beautiful beads and
He'd the almost invisible. cunning knots
hat link them to their diamond clasps
The little band OF stringers are very
simple, but husuesslike people In their
humble wofkrooms deyotecs OF beau.
y. although they are unconscious Of
he fact. nnd true artists In the per.
lection Of their work.-Tondon Chron.
Icle.
Both Played the Game.