Show The Household Edited by Anne Rittenhouse a 0 1 1 rim i PIng CRAFT FI The Englishman or or was It a Spanish Span Span- ish or Ot French FIe who 1 explorer who who first gladdened 13 time the e eye e c of or the time Indian and drove o a a. good bargain Larg in land or furs fuis for fOI himself by 11 I giving him hint a few fety paltry glass r beads surely started something worth while For Kor though we have o come cometo to regard Indian beadwork as 31 essen eg cn- cn aboriginal 1 and most or of us If Ie we were artists called upon to picture an Indian as h ho he came cropping creeping forth to meet Columbus ant and his hit companions would no doubt have t showed him hint decked out lavishly in beadwork headwork still glass lass u brads beads we f of or orl origin ln and the tho Indians mail had on only I shells with which to work worl out then their designs that lint were later ItO so o skillfully wrought rous-ht into mid And so tl we Va c took notes from thc lie Indians In Indians In- In diana In working the very trifles that wo we first crave o a to them And 11 every once In Jn a t l at not lIot N very long JOUR intervals als either som elthel someone either someone one revives a a. id f.-id arl fo ion Indian In In- In dian Ilian a n beadwork he Perhaps those thORO things just n revive Io themselves th as 8 c certain styles of hair dress 11 seem to come come back Into favor or a about abort every fr so often in III spite of ofIn In any ammy personal leadership or tile dic In the matter However the HIP fact that we had little mone money to spend on expensive o oo ornu- ornu and that we the wanted to make I ourselves Ionic fo in spite of war war- gloom may have ha helped a little In 10 to- vit ln I Ing the home made beadwork The Tho j IQ work is done on what Is 18 called In the stores an on Apache beadwork loom a avery avery very cn good Rood specimen of which can be e bought ht for COI only 2 25 cents centa Nun Now Noa a decade r so ao ago when wo we made mallo these things 9 before the strings were fairly narrow and long Thc They dangled dl well below tin tin- waist lei In hODY glass bends beads with l Crl fringe c of small heads bends Those wo WI are arc making today to ay are aie li wider and en end In tim front not much below uilo the bust Just in a plastron of or beadwork madu h b tin the Inn of LIlt hc two mends i of the string Perhaps Pei haps th the h wiring string contains eight or nr ten warp threads thread fl with n a p pattern adapted adapt adapt- ed d to seven or 01 wino b beads there beads there mU must mint 1 Rl always H bo ho on ono one more thrond than thon beads Then tho the decorative plastron tron In front Crout |