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THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
August, 1913
Lamps and Fixtures
Our lighting fixtures, like our
lamps, are distinguished for
efficiency as well as for beauty.
The Illustration shows No. 6507, one of our new
all-metal lamps ; exclusive in character and design ;
decorative and efficient.
The Kimberly Company
317 EAST 34th STREET, NEW YORK CITY
U. S. MINERAL WOOL CO., 90 WEST STREET, NEW YORK
IN THE WARMTH IN WINTER
OUT THE HEAT IN SUMMER
OUT DAMPNESS
SECTION
OF ROOF,
WALL AND
FLOOR SHOW-
ING USE OF
MINERAL WOOL
MINERAL WOOL
THE MODERN HOUSE LINING
SHUTS
SHUTS
KEEPS
CHECKS THE SPREAD OF FIRE
DEADENS NOISES
MAKES WALLS AND FLOORS PROOF
AGAINST RATS, MICE AND VERMIN
Sample, and Descriptive Circular on Request
b CL ARKs ORIENT CRUIse 4
16th Annual, leaves February 2d, Sixty-four
Glorious Days of Cruising by the
NEW S.S. “ROTTERDAM”
t,17O Tons. Cost $400 up, including hotels, drives, guides,
c. VISITING : Madeira, Spain, Algiers, Athens, Contanti-
)ple, 16 days in Palestine and Egypt. Rome Riviera, etc.
op-over in Europe; week in Paris or Londo-i, $30. Program
ee. November and January Round-the-World Tours.
FRANK C. CLARK, Times Building, New York
ARTISTS' BLOUSEg
(FRENCH SMOCKS)
$2-00 Sent prepaid on receipt of $0.00
- State Height and Weight -
E. FALKENHAINER, 25 West 42d Street, NEW YORK
Art and Economy in Home Decoration
Profusely Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage, is cents
JOHN LANE COMPANY NEW YORK
THE
VIOLET BOOK
By A. and D. ALLEN-BROWN
A new book for all those who care
for growing violets.
$1.50 net
THE
OLD GARDENS
OF ITALY
(MEPF)
By Mrs. AUBREY LE BLOND
100 Illustrations. $1.25 net
JOHN LANE COMPANY
NEW YORK
Information concerning plans
or materials for home con-
struction, decoration or fur-
nishing, interior or exterior,
will cheerfully be supplied to
our readers either direct or
through some other authorita-
tive source without charge.
Address:
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
The International Studio, ii6 West 32d Street, New York City
International Studio
Home Building and
Decoration Service
Hand-Woven Coverlets. By Eliza Cal-
vert Hall, (Little, Brown & Co.) $4.00.
The couvre-lit, or coverlid, has come to
its own; after generations, nay, centuries of
literary neglect this humble but warm
friend of man finds its protagonist in the
person of Eliza Calvert Hall, and its vir-
tues and pedigree occupy nearly three
hundred pages of a stately volume. We
live in an age of specialized knowledge, and
possibly the bootjack, towel rack and shav-
ing mirror are at this very moment occupy-
ing the attention of serious writers.
Friends of the coverlet exist possibly in
their thousands, but it is hard to imagine
how any sane person could care to study
its life history or even devote shelf room to
a book dealing with it. Imagine any one
caring whether his coverlet be a “Rocky
Mountain Cucumber” or a “Penford
Chariot Wheel,” and yet so all-important
is the nomenclature and classification in
the writer’s eyes that twenty full pages are
devoted to names and some twenty-five
more to a dissertation on these names.
You may awake with a start to find that
you are reposing under a “Lover’s Knot”
and find out to your dismay that the pur-
chase name was “ Philadelphia Pavement,”
or still worse, “Governor’s Garden” may
be covering you under the shameless dis-
guise of “The Spotted Leopard.” The
writer had the misfortune for two whole
years to greet “Kentucky Snowflakes” as
“Colonel Jackson’s Army,” and even met
the same coverlet masquerading as “Ala-
bama Squares.” But the book is dedi-
cated to coverlet lovers and these may
learn all the handed-down traditions of
weaving and its numberless patterns and
recipes; they may learn how double-
weaving ceased after 1861, when such a
coverlet cost $10 or $12, the loom being
strung with 40 pounds of homespun linen
thread, while 2,000 threads came down
from the cross-piece of the loom, almost
concealing the weaver from any one enter-
ing the building.
We are specially warned against regard-
ing the coverlet merely as “a cotton foun-
dation overshot with wool”; nay, it is “a
weird palimpsest with a spectral past.”
Regarded as a pleasant madness, why not
enter the quest of the woven coverlet, as
well as any other form of collecting, and
when besides obtaining a “ kiver ” you may
be imbued with all its history, poetry and
family traditions, just as the author, then
it must certainly possess a charm and a
flavor beyond the warp. But we are fain
to admit that we prefer this author in the
field of fiction, and attach more importance
to her “Aunt Jane of Kentucky” and “The
Land of Long Ago.”
TO PRINT LOVERS
Mr. Howard C. Levis has just
issued a “Supplement and Index” to his
important “Descriptive Bibliography of
the Most Important Books in the English
Language Relating to the Art and History
of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints.”
(Noted in the International Studio for
October, 1912).
The usefulness of this work as a book
of reference will be very greatly increased
by this index of over 90 pages, which will
be welcomed by many print lovers.
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
August, 1913
Lamps and Fixtures
Our lighting fixtures, like our
lamps, are distinguished for
efficiency as well as for beauty.
The Illustration shows No. 6507, one of our new
all-metal lamps ; exclusive in character and design ;
decorative and efficient.
The Kimberly Company
317 EAST 34th STREET, NEW YORK CITY
U. S. MINERAL WOOL CO., 90 WEST STREET, NEW YORK
IN THE WARMTH IN WINTER
OUT THE HEAT IN SUMMER
OUT DAMPNESS
SECTION
OF ROOF,
WALL AND
FLOOR SHOW-
ING USE OF
MINERAL WOOL
MINERAL WOOL
THE MODERN HOUSE LINING
SHUTS
SHUTS
KEEPS
CHECKS THE SPREAD OF FIRE
DEADENS NOISES
MAKES WALLS AND FLOORS PROOF
AGAINST RATS, MICE AND VERMIN
Sample, and Descriptive Circular on Request
b CL ARKs ORIENT CRUIse 4
16th Annual, leaves February 2d, Sixty-four
Glorious Days of Cruising by the
NEW S.S. “ROTTERDAM”
t,17O Tons. Cost $400 up, including hotels, drives, guides,
c. VISITING : Madeira, Spain, Algiers, Athens, Contanti-
)ple, 16 days in Palestine and Egypt. Rome Riviera, etc.
op-over in Europe; week in Paris or Londo-i, $30. Program
ee. November and January Round-the-World Tours.
FRANK C. CLARK, Times Building, New York
ARTISTS' BLOUSEg
(FRENCH SMOCKS)
$2-00 Sent prepaid on receipt of $0.00
- State Height and Weight -
E. FALKENHAINER, 25 West 42d Street, NEW YORK
Art and Economy in Home Decoration
Profusely Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postage, is cents
JOHN LANE COMPANY NEW YORK
THE
VIOLET BOOK
By A. and D. ALLEN-BROWN
A new book for all those who care
for growing violets.
$1.50 net
THE
OLD GARDENS
OF ITALY
(MEPF)
By Mrs. AUBREY LE BLOND
100 Illustrations. $1.25 net
JOHN LANE COMPANY
NEW YORK
Information concerning plans
or materials for home con-
struction, decoration or fur-
nishing, interior or exterior,
will cheerfully be supplied to
our readers either direct or
through some other authorita-
tive source without charge.
Address:
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
The International Studio, ii6 West 32d Street, New York City
International Studio
Home Building and
Decoration Service
Hand-Woven Coverlets. By Eliza Cal-
vert Hall, (Little, Brown & Co.) $4.00.
The couvre-lit, or coverlid, has come to
its own; after generations, nay, centuries of
literary neglect this humble but warm
friend of man finds its protagonist in the
person of Eliza Calvert Hall, and its vir-
tues and pedigree occupy nearly three
hundred pages of a stately volume. We
live in an age of specialized knowledge, and
possibly the bootjack, towel rack and shav-
ing mirror are at this very moment occupy-
ing the attention of serious writers.
Friends of the coverlet exist possibly in
their thousands, but it is hard to imagine
how any sane person could care to study
its life history or even devote shelf room to
a book dealing with it. Imagine any one
caring whether his coverlet be a “Rocky
Mountain Cucumber” or a “Penford
Chariot Wheel,” and yet so all-important
is the nomenclature and classification in
the writer’s eyes that twenty full pages are
devoted to names and some twenty-five
more to a dissertation on these names.
You may awake with a start to find that
you are reposing under a “Lover’s Knot”
and find out to your dismay that the pur-
chase name was “ Philadelphia Pavement,”
or still worse, “Governor’s Garden” may
be covering you under the shameless dis-
guise of “The Spotted Leopard.” The
writer had the misfortune for two whole
years to greet “Kentucky Snowflakes” as
“Colonel Jackson’s Army,” and even met
the same coverlet masquerading as “Ala-
bama Squares.” But the book is dedi-
cated to coverlet lovers and these may
learn all the handed-down traditions of
weaving and its numberless patterns and
recipes; they may learn how double-
weaving ceased after 1861, when such a
coverlet cost $10 or $12, the loom being
strung with 40 pounds of homespun linen
thread, while 2,000 threads came down
from the cross-piece of the loom, almost
concealing the weaver from any one enter-
ing the building.
We are specially warned against regard-
ing the coverlet merely as “a cotton foun-
dation overshot with wool”; nay, it is “a
weird palimpsest with a spectral past.”
Regarded as a pleasant madness, why not
enter the quest of the woven coverlet, as
well as any other form of collecting, and
when besides obtaining a “ kiver ” you may
be imbued with all its history, poetry and
family traditions, just as the author, then
it must certainly possess a charm and a
flavor beyond the warp. But we are fain
to admit that we prefer this author in the
field of fiction, and attach more importance
to her “Aunt Jane of Kentucky” and “The
Land of Long Ago.”
TO PRINT LOVERS
Mr. Howard C. Levis has just
issued a “Supplement and Index” to his
important “Descriptive Bibliography of
the Most Important Books in the English
Language Relating to the Art and History
of Engraving and the Collecting of Prints.”
(Noted in the International Studio for
October, 1912).
The usefulness of this work as a book
of reference will be very greatly increased
by this index of over 90 pages, which will
be welcomed by many print lovers.