. How to make Indian and other baskets . e that many individual basketmakers, or groups of workers, are following the exampe of either doing their own dyeing in indigo, fustic, madder and copperas,or employing someone who has skill and time to do it for them. By HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 3! these means the dld-fashioned processes of hand-dyeing are beingrevived, and far-reaching effects may quite reasonably be hoped forfrom the individual dyers who are thus being encouraged. Such anone is Mrs. Miller, of Brooklyn, whose Colonial Dyes of over adozen shades and tones of
. How to make Indian and other baskets . e that many individual basketmakers, or groups of workers, are following the exampe of either doing their own dyeing in indigo, fustic, madder and copperas,or employing someone who has skill and time to do it for them. By HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 3! these means the dld-fashioned processes of hand-dyeing are beingrevived, and far-reaching effects may quite reasonably be hoped forfrom the individual dyers who are thus being encouraged. Such anone is Mrs. Miller, of Brooklyn, whose Colonial Dyes of over adozen shades and tones of reds, browns, yellows, greens and bluesdone in small vats prepared by old rules of tried permanence, areso pleasing to the eye, tried by the garish modern colors that it isimpossible to believe the future will consent to accept. Quite recentlya modest sale, for a charity, of baskets made by a group of amateurbut skillful basket-makers in a surburban town belonging to GreaterNew York, from Mrs. Millers colors proved the charm possible to. FIG. 135. SIMPLE WEB BASKETS OF of Students, Teachers College, New York. obtain from the color harmonies of vegetable dyes. The basket witha holly design, that which was decorated with a stiff row of tulips,another that bore trees, whose maker whimsically proclaimed to growin the vale of cedars, and still another developed in orange andblack with a barbaric design in white beads, all show the inspirationharmonious colors give to the designer, how their mere possessiongives suggestion of patterns and combinations to the eye of a skillfulbasket-maker, which her own desire to produce turns to admirableaccount. The much lamented decay of good design and of excellencein ornamental work has been largely helped by the manufactureddyes; how great an influence toward the tasteless and tawdry has beenwrought by the invention of aniline colors, who can say? HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. CHAPTER VI. TOOLS AND TERMS USED. The student sho
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