DOI Heft:
No. 133 (April, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0289
Studio-Talk
Lower Canada is the home of
the loom and the spinning-wheel.
In many districts there is scarcely
a cottage where the shuttle does
not fly merrily and the spinning-
wheel fill the house with its friendly
whirr on a winter's day. The farmer
grows the flax and raises the sheep
to supply his thrifty wife with
, materials for her winter's work; and
she, good dame, makes sheets and
good coarse tablecloths from the
flax, and from the wool excellent
grey homespun for her husband's
clothes, coloured homespun for the
children, warm blankets for the beds,
strong carpets for the floor, and of
last year's old flannels (well washed,
re-carded, and re-spun) the cotivre-
bieds of curious old patterns to
memory dear. In fact, everything
that one sees in these Lower
Canadian houses, except the pottery
and the iron articles, is made by
the farmer and his wife, the children
taking their share by making the
swifts and bobbins from bits of
wood and bark—very primitive, but
■_ ' . quite useful. And madame can
make the old unfading vegetable
model design for an altar designed and executed dyes, too; but of late she has been
BY otto lohr . , , . , j
told that the cheap new dyes are
more proper to use nowadays, and
with them she certainly can, and
celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, we have a unfortunately does, attain more startling effects
retrospective exhibition which might have been with greater ease. But it is hoped—and, indeed,
more interesting had the organisers thought of has in some instances already been proved—that
asking for some of the work by Stobbaerts, with the growing desire for beautifully coloured
Verstraete, and Leemans which is scattered about hand-made articles of attire and decoration the
in private collections. But such as it is, the bonne femme will again use the old dyes, the recipes
Salon contains a series of remarkable things for which are being carefully collected and tested
signed by H. Leys, J. Lies, L. van Kuyk, by the Women's Art Association, at " Our Handi-
W. Linnig, jun., Fr. Lamoriciere, and V. Lagge. crafts' Shop," in Montreal.
P. de M. -
This little shop, for the sale of hand-made
CANADA.— In Canada, as in other materials, opened last spring by the Associa-
countries, there is a steady growth of tion, after the exhibition mentioned in the August
interest in the cottage industries, and and September numbers of The Studio, has
the work taken up by the Montreal succeeded beyond the expectations of the ladies
Branch of the Women's Art Association of Canada interested. Already offers have come from
is rapidly spreading to other cities where the Germany and the United States to open agencies,
Association is evincing a keen interest in the and a large quantity of goods has been dis-
domestic arts. posed of for the country women, who are begin-
- ning to understand that the arts of which some
Lower Canada is the home of
the loom and the spinning-wheel.
In many districts there is scarcely
a cottage where the shuttle does
not fly merrily and the spinning-
wheel fill the house with its friendly
whirr on a winter's day. The farmer
grows the flax and raises the sheep
to supply his thrifty wife with
, materials for her winter's work; and
she, good dame, makes sheets and
good coarse tablecloths from the
flax, and from the wool excellent
grey homespun for her husband's
clothes, coloured homespun for the
children, warm blankets for the beds,
strong carpets for the floor, and of
last year's old flannels (well washed,
re-carded, and re-spun) the cotivre-
bieds of curious old patterns to
memory dear. In fact, everything
that one sees in these Lower
Canadian houses, except the pottery
and the iron articles, is made by
the farmer and his wife, the children
taking their share by making the
swifts and bobbins from bits of
wood and bark—very primitive, but
■_ ' . quite useful. And madame can
make the old unfading vegetable
model design for an altar designed and executed dyes, too; but of late she has been
BY otto lohr . , , . , j
told that the cheap new dyes are
more proper to use nowadays, and
with them she certainly can, and
celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, we have a unfortunately does, attain more startling effects
retrospective exhibition which might have been with greater ease. But it is hoped—and, indeed,
more interesting had the organisers thought of has in some instances already been proved—that
asking for some of the work by Stobbaerts, with the growing desire for beautifully coloured
Verstraete, and Leemans which is scattered about hand-made articles of attire and decoration the
in private collections. But such as it is, the bonne femme will again use the old dyes, the recipes
Salon contains a series of remarkable things for which are being carefully collected and tested
signed by H. Leys, J. Lies, L. van Kuyk, by the Women's Art Association, at " Our Handi-
W. Linnig, jun., Fr. Lamoriciere, and V. Lagge. crafts' Shop," in Montreal.
P. de M. -
This little shop, for the sale of hand-made
CANADA.— In Canada, as in other materials, opened last spring by the Associa-
countries, there is a steady growth of tion, after the exhibition mentioned in the August
interest in the cottage industries, and and September numbers of The Studio, has
the work taken up by the Montreal succeeded beyond the expectations of the ladies
Branch of the Women's Art Association of Canada interested. Already offers have come from
is rapidly spreading to other cities where the Germany and the United States to open agencies,
Association is evincing a keen interest in the and a large quantity of goods has been dis-
domestic arts. posed of for the country women, who are begin-
- ning to understand that the arts of which some