East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-01-11
FORMER LOCAL GIRL
IS WINNING SUCCESS
AS AN ILLUSTRATOR
MISS BONNEY ROYAL GAINS
FAME IN EAST AS ARTIST
OF ABILITY.
Mrs. C. f. Colcsworthy OF This City
Receives News Story Featuring the
Work of Miss Royal-Young Wom-
an Made Her Way Unaided in Chi
cago-Talent Recognized.

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Local friends of Miss Bonney Royal
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Roy
al, principal OF the schools here year,
ago. will be interested in the follow
ing story OF her success as an artist
given by Seattle paper. copy OF
which was sent Mrs G. f. Coleswor-
thy:
Miss Bonney Royal, who has just
returned from New York City to visit
her mother Mrs. T. B. Royal Of Olym-
pia, is a plucky young Washington
woman who left the Puget Sound
country when she was slip Of a girl
and alone and practically unaided
made her way in Chicago as an art
student, earning her living and study
ing at the same time. Through her
illustrating she finally obtained a
place on one Of the Chicago papers.
She attracted so much attention by
the cleverness OF her ideas that she
was sent to New York to do illustrat-
ing from there for the Chicago paper.
She not only illustrated, but wrote her
own legends beneath her cartoons.
From this she worked into a place as
head designer on the Herter Looms in
New York.
She has now, after an absence Of
nearly seven years, returned to her
home where she Is engaged in deco
rating the interior of her mothers
house.
The women's clubs Of Olympia have
been interested in Miss Royals work,
because she was brought up in that
place and is also the granddaughter
Of pioneers, Judge and Mrs. d. E.
Bigelow. She has been asked to talk
to the women and to explain the tap
estry work she had been doing.
Miss Royal says, in discussing her
work; "The Herter Looms, which are
named from Albert Herter, their pres
ident and founder, is run in connec-
ton with the Herter Studios. The
tapestries that are woven there are
like the Aubusson tapestries of Eu-
rope. In making a tapestry II is ne
cessary first to paint the design and
then to send IL to the looms, where
skilled weavers, mostly imported from
France, put the design under the warp
and carefully follow it, color for col
or. This necessitates the tying OF
many knots and 1t is laborous pro-
cess. Most of the weavers learn their
trade in childhood
THE Herter Looms Is setting a
higher standard Of interior decoration
than has been known in this country
before. In the studio a great many
mural decorations are done for pub
lie buildings, such as theaters, hotels,
etc. One of the interesting exhibits
of work from the studio Is in the Nc
Alphine Hotel in New York City. 1t
is a history of New York. illustrated
in a set of twenty tapestries
Member OF Stuyvesant Club.
Miss Royal was a resident member
OF the Stuyvesant club, which was
founded by DR.. William Norman
Guthrie, the rector of st. Marks, New
York City, who saw the advantage of
bringing artists, musicians and writ
ers together. 1t is a social commu-
nifty where they live. work and have
their good times. The club is situ-
ated next the old st. Marks church,
where Peter Stuyvesant Is buried.
During the winter exhibits of the
work OF the club members are held in
the gallery of the church and every