The blue and white [serial] . Biltmore Hand-Woven Homespun Strictly hand-woven and containing not a fibre of anything but new sheeps wool. Hand-dyed with vegetable and ALIZARINE dyes. No aniline dyes color guaranteed. We use no lambs wool because it shrinks almost as long as it lasts. After we dye the wool in its raw state, we card, spin, weave and dry-cleanit, then scour it two hours in hot Ivory Soap suds, and dry it on tenter hookfences in the sun. There are about two hundred weaves and colors and we never make twobatches of the same pattern just alike. Biltmore Homespuns were or
The blue and white [serial] . Biltmore Hand-Woven Homespun Strictly hand-woven and containing not a fibre of anything but new sheeps wool. Hand-dyed with vegetable and ALIZARINE dyes. No aniline dyes color guaranteed. We use no lambs wool because it shrinks almost as long as it lasts. After we dye the wool in its raw state, we card, spin, weave and dry-cleanit, then scour it two hours in hot Ivory Soap suds, and dry it on tenter hookfences in the sun. There are about two hundred weaves and colors and we never make twobatches of the same pattern just alike. Biltmore Homespuns were originated nearly twenty years ago by W. Vanderbilt on the famous Biltmore Estate, and are the outgrowth ofher philanthrophy through the establishment of an Industrial School in Bilt-more Village, where boys and girls were taught Wood-Carving and Hand-Weaving. Later it became known as the Biltmore Estate Industries, and after it hadoutgrown the bounds of a school it was sold to Mr. F. L. Seely, who built andoperates Gr
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