DOI issue:
The International Studio (June, 1908)
DOI article:Rural and summer colonies of the arts and crafts
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28254#0516
Summer Arts and Crafts
Emer Industries in the midst of a farming district.
The idea is being carried out in various parts of
the United States and similar efforts are being made
to encourage the production of beautiful and useful
hand-work under the more healthful and natural
conditions of rural life.
In the old Colonial town of Deerfield, Mass., a
thriving community of crafts workers are reviving
the simple industries of Colonial days, notably the
blue and white weaving and needlework. The
workers dye their own materials in indigo, madder
and fustic. Here also are built simple and artistic
forms of furniture and a special sort of basketry is
practised. In Kentucky, the Berea Colony are
weaving rugs, table covers, bed spreads, etc. At
Byrdcliffe, Ulster County, N. Y., there is an active
colony of wood carvers, weavers and workers
in the various lines of handicraft. In Maine, the
Cranberry Island Colony, under the guidance of
Miss Reynolds, is producing the picturesque hook
rug. On an island known as the Isle la Motte, in
Lake Champlain, Mrs. Fiske has taught her neigh-
bors to weave simple, albeit beautiful, rugs on old
Colonial looms which have been handed down
from the weavers’ ancestors.
The colony recently established by the National
Society of Craftsmen of New York in the White
Mountain region of New Hampshire differs some-
what in character from the groups already men-
tioned. Different because it is the summer home
of a metropolitan society. Inasmuch as the aver-
age city person thinks him or herself too busy in the
winter months to pay proper attention to such vital
questions as the Arts and Crafts, the members of
this society have established this colony in the midst
of beautiful surroundings where, far removed from
city life, these same people can better understand
the handicraft idea. They can work if they like in
the classes or, by attending lectures and studying
the work in the exhibition rooms, they can gain a
real knowledge of the handicrafts.
This crafts colony is situated upon the crown of
Sugar Hill, so called because of the sugar maples
which abound in the locality.
The exhibition rooms and work shops form a
part of a group of buildings located on the estate
of Mr. J. William Fosdick, vice-president of the
society.
The village of Sugar Hill is a part of the township
of Lisbon, Grafton County, N. H.
MOUNT LAFAYETTE FROM SUGAR HILL, N. H.
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Emer Industries in the midst of a farming district.
The idea is being carried out in various parts of
the United States and similar efforts are being made
to encourage the production of beautiful and useful
hand-work under the more healthful and natural
conditions of rural life.
In the old Colonial town of Deerfield, Mass., a
thriving community of crafts workers are reviving
the simple industries of Colonial days, notably the
blue and white weaving and needlework. The
workers dye their own materials in indigo, madder
and fustic. Here also are built simple and artistic
forms of furniture and a special sort of basketry is
practised. In Kentucky, the Berea Colony are
weaving rugs, table covers, bed spreads, etc. At
Byrdcliffe, Ulster County, N. Y., there is an active
colony of wood carvers, weavers and workers
in the various lines of handicraft. In Maine, the
Cranberry Island Colony, under the guidance of
Miss Reynolds, is producing the picturesque hook
rug. On an island known as the Isle la Motte, in
Lake Champlain, Mrs. Fiske has taught her neigh-
bors to weave simple, albeit beautiful, rugs on old
Colonial looms which have been handed down
from the weavers’ ancestors.
The colony recently established by the National
Society of Craftsmen of New York in the White
Mountain region of New Hampshire differs some-
what in character from the groups already men-
tioned. Different because it is the summer home
of a metropolitan society. Inasmuch as the aver-
age city person thinks him or herself too busy in the
winter months to pay proper attention to such vital
questions as the Arts and Crafts, the members of
this society have established this colony in the midst
of beautiful surroundings where, far removed from
city life, these same people can better understand
the handicraft idea. They can work if they like in
the classes or, by attending lectures and studying
the work in the exhibition rooms, they can gain a
real knowledge of the handicrafts.
This crafts colony is situated upon the crown of
Sugar Hill, so called because of the sugar maples
which abound in the locality.
The exhibition rooms and work shops form a
part of a group of buildings located on the estate
of Mr. J. William Fosdick, vice-president of the
society.
The village of Sugar Hill is a part of the township
of Lisbon, Grafton County, N. H.
MOUNT LAFAYETTE FROM SUGAR HILL, N. H.
CLII