Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-09-15 | Page 2 | Old-Time Quilting Industry Revived

I OLD-TIME QUILTING INDUSTRY REVIVED , 111 a row ol quaint Utile while collages built on land the title ot which dales back to lievolullonarv times, voung women are now plving the needle. I in tehi nir. felling, limiting, there are sonic -0 women and girls who lire earn-I earn-I lug their living making the same kinds of quills and coverlets their grcat-grandinothers grcat-grandinothers used to make. As this Is the twentieth century, they have put a few modern touches to the Industry, the most notable of which are their rigid eight-hour working law, ami a regulation carulng wage. The quilling bee, lis the little collage factory Is named, was establiihed three years ago to give congenial employment to the women and girls of Rye. N. V., who needed It, uud to revive Ihe art of quilting. Il was IncorpouUcd last year and now become self-supporting.