CREATIVE HANDICRAFT
The triumph of creative handicraft in an age of machinery was illustrated by an exhibition in London to which women in villages throughout England and Wales sent work, states aVi exchange.' The exhibits were shown by the National Federation of Women's Institutes, and they combined beauty with economy.
Economy was especially apparent in the Thrift Workshop. The banana crates made baby cradles, bits of linoleum made soles of bedroom slippers, of which the uppers were made from last year's discarded felt hats. Hen's feathers and sheep's wool, which' had been picked up.from the hedges, were used as fillings for dainty quilts.
One of the exhibits, contributed by a Cambridgeshire woman. Mrs. Bernard Jackson, was a beautiful rug made entirely cf old silk stockings' on a foundation of coarse sacking.
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Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 9
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131CREATIVE HANDICRAFT Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 9
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