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Show REVIVAL OF OLD INDUSTRIES Canada Furnishes Beautiful Homespuns Home-spuns in Wool and Linen for Children's Chil-dren's Frocks and Gowns. From the home Industries of Canada Can-ada come beautiful homespuns in wool and linens, woven and dyed by hand, which are charming in color and texture, tex-ture, says the Handicraft: These are being used by two of our United States industries in making children's frocks and dressing gowns. The Old Glory Union at Bourne, Mass., and the Aquidneck Cottage industries in-dustries of Newport, R. I., find difficulty diffi-culty in filling the demand for these handmade garments, which are dis- ' tinctive in design and showing an application ap-plication of needlecraft out of the position po-sition is usually occupies. The Basket Shop in Belfonette, Pa., produces baskets made by the townspeople towns-people under the direction and from the designs of able crat'tsworkers who have been in their town, aided by an expert in getting the best results in dyeing. The settlements in many o the large cities are getting good results re-sults in needlecraft and in making pottery. The Bohemian Needlework Guild in New York and the Paul Re. vere Pottery in Boston are notable examples. ex-amples. ,The Keene Valley tapestries made in the Adirondacks by the guides' wives in their homes from special designs de-signs by Pamela Coleman Smith and under the able direction of Mrs. George Notman are remarkable examples exam-ples of weaving and are good from every standpoint. Made to order from special designs and with the colors dyed to harmonize with any surroundings surround-ings they, fill a need long felt by interior in-terior decorators. |