Book 54
ART & PLEASURE
“Painting with Needles”
NEW USES OF DEXTER COTTON WARP
Virginia Snow Studios
ELGIN, ILL.—U.S.A.
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PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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Art and Pleasure
“Painting With Needles”
To the Romans who cradled culture, all forms of created beauty constituted Art. Fine sewing of all kinds, they called “Painting with Needles”.
Today, centuries later, we find millions of American women, those of wealth and those of more modest means alike, also painting with needles. They are expressing the beautiful in colorful yarns, and perpetuating culture with their crocheted creations made for the comfort and pleasure of gracious living.
And it is more than art! Women have learned and are learning how to dress better for less and how to adorn their homes with practical, yet lovely, articles of usefulness.
Crocheting with Dexter Cotton Warp is, in a sense, the fair flower of an art that our great-grandmas practiced not alone for pleasure, but with an eye to the practical—the art of the weaving of rugs. Their yarns were not so fine and lovely as of today, nor so amazingly easy to work with. But then, as now, women found pride and delight in the home-arts, and now crocheting, the art of the hour, flaunts many of the exquisite designs that have survived those early rugs.