American homes and gardens . )HE revival of the old-time handiwork is nomere fad. It seeks to reproduce by modernfingers the articles that our great grandsmothers wrought with greatest care andcompleted after days and weeks of twentieth century looks back on thepast and what it did with admiring and approving eyes, fortrue art is found in much that was then accomplished. Oftenthe productions were of the simplest designs, and this verysimplicity appeals to those who have the artistic sense notyet confused by the conglomeration of articles turned out bymachines in such quantities that
American homes and gardens . )HE revival of the old-time handiwork is nomere fad. It seeks to reproduce by modernfingers the articles that our great grandsmothers wrought with greatest care andcompleted after days and weeks of twentieth century looks back on thepast and what it did with admiring and approving eyes, fortrue art is found in much that was then accomplished. Oftenthe productions were of the simplest designs, and this verysimplicity appeals to those who have the artistic sense notyet confused by the conglomeration of articles turned out bymachines in such quantities that there can be no personalityand no chance for individuality in any of them. Some moderns, while able to prate of art, having a com-mand of language yet a scarcity of ideas, are disdainful,for instance, of the blue and white bedspread, that made apart of every girls wedding outfit a hundred years ago andnow acts as couch cover or portiere in some home of herdescendants. They will say,perhaps, that the pattern isso common, the
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