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TEE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The idea for the upper design, made by Mr. Makoto Nishi- 

 mura, was taken from the American Museum's collections of 

 primitive American art. Mr. Nishimura was a prize winner in 

 the recent design contest. Samples of silk bearing this design 

 and the following were furni.shed by Belding Brothers 



The lower design shows a graceful motive suggested to the 

 artist, Mr. Andrew Fleury, by the Museum's Amur River collec- 

 tions. The design won third prize in the contest 



collections has been Mr. 0. G. Fisher, 

 of Belding Brothers, and he has been 

 very mnch influenced in his designing 

 by the material he has seen here. The 

 same may be said of Cheney Brothers, 

 who are making use of ideas developed 

 from this material. It would be tedi- 



ous to enumerate each 

 person who has come to 

 the American Museum 

 and found it a great com- 

 mercial asset — as well as 

 a delightful recreation. 

 John Wanamaker's store 

 recently had a very inter- 

 esting exhibit of "Mayan 

 Fabrics," the motives for 

 which were taken from 

 tlic ]\ruseuiH. These fab- 

 rics were exhibited in sev- 

 cial other cities, even as 

 far west as Portland, Ore- 

 gon. 



It would be impossible, 

 witliiii reasonable space 

 limits, to show a tithe of 

 the designs which have 

 been created from this in- 

 spiration. Indeed, they 

 ;i re coming out so fast that 

 it is impossible even to 

 keep trace of them. The 

 designers, working under 

 the guidance of the ]\Iu- 

 seuni, are spreading this 

 art so rapidly among the 

 industry that many peo- 

 ple are buying designs 

 and do not realize that the 

 ideas have been suggested 

 by ]\Iuseum material. As 

 before stated, representa- 

 tives of the cotton and 

 garment concerns also are 

 beginning to visit the Mu- 

 seum with serious inten- 

 tions. Burton Bros. & Co., 

 Wm. H. Brown Son & Co., Clarence 

 Whitman & Co., Inc., Renfrew Mfg. Co., 

 and Eddystone Mfg. Co., are among the 

 cotton concerns that have come up to 

 this date, and the firms of J. Eapoport 

 & Co., A. Beller & Co., and E. J. Wile & 

 Co., are among the costumers who have 



