The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-26

IMAGINATION in the designs they
created. and in other individuals
who, like herself, wove in self-de-
Tense.
Arranges Lectures
AS a result, she has a varied as
sortment of materials woven in
many lands and under many diff
ferent circumstances. She has sew
eral looms and has begun a series Of
lectures, to assist her in buying an
antique Navajo loom which she is
to present to the John Heron Art
Museum.
DR.. Shadinger, Butler University
chemistry department head, always
has been amused by the manner in
which she obtained her large foot
loom Mrs Shadinger began raising
goats to provide herself with their
milk, and she traded a goat for
loom with man who came to the
door selling products he had woven.
only one woman in a thousand
would raise goats and only one
woman in a thousand who had
goat would trade it for a loom, DR..
Shadlnger insists.
Recovery Retarded
Mrs Shadingers recovery from an
illness in the West, was retarded
because of loneliness for her fam
lily A friendly stranger, who de-
tected the symptoms of homesick
and discouraged woman, suggested
that Mrs. Shadinger allow her to
teach her weaving.
Mrs Shadinger graSped eagerly at
the opportunity to occupy her time
and thoughts, and during the re-
naming three years that she was
away from her home and friends,
she made scarves, bags and pillow
covers. She worked on a table loom
AS she pointed to the small frame
work on table. she explained. II
made almost a hundred scarves on
it. Some of the designs I copied
from patterns; others l created my
self"
When Mrs Shadinger returned to
her home, she began tracing the
history of weaving. After she pre-
Sented a paper on the subject at a
meeting of the indianapolis Wom-
ans Club, invitations came to her
from other organizations to tell her
story.
EngrOsSed i'm Patterns
AS she worked on her loom max
ing coverletS. she became engroSSed
in the patterns she was weaving.
Occasionally her thoughts turned to
others. who had expressed them
selves in the same medium.
She began collecting specimens
She bought paisley shawls, made
popular by Queen Victoria; Navajo
designs of Indians, who interpreted
their thoughts in colors, coverlets in
which middleclaSS women attempt
ed to reproduce the damaSk hang
ingS that draped the beds of roy
period, and Oriental awlS-Some
designed by young women to prove
their domestic adeptneSS.
The path of weaving follows the
path OF civilization" Mrs. Shadinger
has decided after her studies 1T
always amused me TO come back
from the West to make coverlet
similar to the one l have which my
reatgrandmother wove in
1908"
Mrs Shadinger has visited occu-
pational therapy shops and observed
the curative effect of weaving on
crippleS She has gone to out of
the-way corners to see some ambi-
tiouS person creating things of
beauty One old man on whom she
called had made his own loom, whit
ting the parts from twigS, and used
threads torn from a burlap sack.
Mrs. w B. Holden. Chicago is
guest of Mrs. NJ. E. CoStin for the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Miss Constance Mccullough. Eng
liSh teacher at Edison High School.
Minneapolis, is to spend Thanks
giving with her mother. Mrs. John
S. Mccullough and sister. Miss Dor
othy Mccullough, Tudor Hall teach
err. Miss Constance Mccullough is
delegate to the National Council
OF Teachers of English meeting to
be Thursday through Saturday at
the Claypool