. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. and texture could be easily seen. We find evidences that this type of display was in use thousands of yearsbefore our own era. I show on this page an illustration of how fabrics were draped in the ba-zaars of the Orient hundreds of years ago. The early history of the world is the history of the people of Egypt, and whatwe broadly term the Orient. Their method of shop-keeping has not changed per-ceptively for thousands of years, so that in showing you this illustration of abazaar of the O
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. and texture could be easily seen. We find evidences that this type of display was in use thousands of yearsbefore our own era. I show on this page an illustration of how fabrics were draped in the ba-zaars of the Orient hundreds of years ago. The early history of the world is the history of the people of Egypt, and whatwe broadly term the Orient. Their method of shop-keeping has not changed per-ceptively for thousands of years, so that in showing you this illustration of abazaar of the Orient you can imagine yourself looking at the way draping wasdone thousands of years ao;o. In those days glasswas u n know n, sothere were no showwindows of g-1 a s show windowwas merely the openend of a booth, orstall. The boothswere grouped togeth-er into a bazaar thesame as our storesare grouped together,and called The busi-ness d i s t r i c t, or?Down town. So, I show you thisbazaar with the beau-tiful stuffs of the Orient hung up on rods or cords so as to catch the eye of the passer-by 11. of the Orient, hundreds of years old, showing how fabrics weredraped along the walls similar to methods in vogue athousand years or more ago. Early Histohv of Dhaimnc. The next tangible trace of early draping that I have been able to find wasin an old book printed in the year 1840, and called Old London Shop book is illustrated with steel engravings, colored by hand, and was intendedto interest the architect who was interested in planning store fronts. It uncon-sciously serves our purpose, because I find several of the fronts are trimmedwith dress goods and silks, and thus gives us a very correct idea of how drapingwas done nearly one hundred years ag-o in London. Thus you will see that the drap-ing of fabrics had not developed very much In thousands of years. And afterreading this book you will find that practically all the real progress in this workhas been during th
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