Show AN ANCIENT JAPANESE ART Embroidery Made In Flowery Kingdom for Centuries Before Country Was Open Opened d to World Japanese embroidery now so popular popular lar Jar In this country Is one of the oldest arts of the mikado's people For centurIes centuries centuries cen cen- before the country was opened to foreign Intercourse intercourse heavily Jl heavily llY a embroidered i ered silk kimonos screens and other articles were made by b- professional embroidery experts principally in Kyoto This same profession continues continues continues con con- today havIn having been handed down from father to son for many gen gen- For this reason the center of ot the countr country's s embroidery art-embroidery Industry Industry industry Indus Indus- try Is at K Kyoto oto although cheaper embroideries em em- principally for export are produced In large quantities In other part of the Kobe Iobe The majority of the thc workers In K Kyoto Kyo Kyo- o oto to are men inon who pre province lace the finer liner grades of embroidery It Is essentially a household Industry and Is usually con conducted In small shops where from three to ten ton apprentices nail and skilled embroiderers ers tl are arc employed The file men received from JO 10 to h. 1 75 cents gold pet pei day The women however are able to earn from Hi 15 fi to CO GO cents gold old pet per day depending upon their a ability ane diligence The manufacture of made hand land made lace luce Is a 11 comparatively ly new Industry tr In Japan as ns Ince lace was not used by the Japanese before the tte advent of foreigners foreign foreign- ers eri The Industry Is still In Its Infancy infancy In In- fancy and the output Is Is' Is is small |