Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home

Weaving on a Hand Loom Showing the necessary positions. The rug the little girl is weaving is made of heavy carpet wool. The body of the rug is golden brown, with stripes of deep blue and green, separated by narrow stripes of white
Rand, McNally & Company Educational Publishers Chicago New York London Copyright, 1902 , By Mattie Phipps Todd

The Table of Contents

The highest aim of art is to make some useful thing beautiful. Kenyon Cox.

For many years we, the teachers of the United States assembled in village, city, State, and national conventions, have recited our creed and chanted it in all keys.
Our creed
We believe that man is a trinity, three in one—head, heart, and hand, one soul made manifest; we believe that this union is vital and indissoluble, since what God hath joined together may not be rent asunder; we believe that this three-fold man, being put to school on earth to grow, may devise and bring to successful issue no scheme of education that is out of harmony with the plan of the Creator.
Congratulating ourselves upon our ready and distinct utterance of this lofty thought, we have calmly returned to our man-devised book-schools for the acquisition of knowledge, in order to forward some plan for the accumulation of more knowledge.
Deeds, not words, are now necessary