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The patient labour expended by the amateur artist, the needleworker, and the connoisseur of home art a generation or two ago has provided the collector to-day with an exceptionally interesting class of curio, for there is much to admire in amateur craftsmanship, and especially in the handiwork of the needlewoman and the weaver and decorator of so many beautiful textiles which have been preserved to us.
Many drown themselves they drown in the canal so they will be found. Women and girls, they drown themselves. So! Help me carry her." Farr gazed down on her after she had been laid on the canal bank. She was young, but thin and work-worn. "Weaver," commented old Etienne, laying back on her breast one of the hands he had lifted.
"...I count life just stuff To try the soul's strength on, educe the man." Pippa Passes is one of Browning's most artistic presentations of such dramatic scenes. The little silk weaver, Pippa, rises on the morning of her one holiday in the year, with the intention of enjoying in fancy the pleasures "of the Happiest Four in our Asolo," not knowing, in her innocence, of their misery and guilt.
Pardner wasn't for sale at no price, but they talked me into buying the Weaver; they claimed he's just about as good a horse, once he's tamed down some and I thought, seein' I've got some real tamers on my pay-roll, I'd take a chance on him. I thought yuh knew the horse the way yuh read up his pedigree till I seen yuh mount him.
Five hundred and forty threads went to the warp and a hundred and ten to the weft; and I'm sure a modern weaver would wonder how they could produce quills fine enough for weaving such yarn through." "There's nothing new under the sun, seemingly," said old Mrs. Chick.
In this particular race we are concerned with but two owners, one of whom told the truth. Weaver, rat-eyed and furtive, answered all questions freely almost too freely. "Ye-es, she's a right nice little mare, but they've weighted her out of it to-day. She can't pack a hundred and fifteen and win.... That much lead will stop a stake horse. Better stay off her to-day. Some other time."
There was joy in the Weaver household when the child was born, and when it had been duly announced that it was a boy. The event was the first of the kind in this particular branch of the Weaver family, and, as is always the case, there was such rejoicing as does not come with the recurrence of like episodes.
Now the work of a maker as of a builder, a weaver, a musical-instrument maker, or a statuary is altogether apart and separate from its author; but the principle and power of the procreator is implanted in the progeny, and contains his nature, the progeny being a piece pulled off the procreator.
Grisell remained kneeling on the steps of the dais, while the Duchess addressed her in much more imperfect Flemish than she could by this time speak herself. "You are the lace weaver, maiden. Can you speak French?" "Oui, si madame, son Altese le veut," replied Grisell, for her tongue had likewise become accustomed to French in this city of many tongues.
During the course of a great strike of mill operatives in Fall River, Massachusetts, a few years ago, a considerable group of weaver and spinner girls were induced, by members of the Women's Trade Union League, to take up domestic service until the close of the strike. As the girls were in acute financial distress they agreed to try the experiment.
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