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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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"Allegory of Washington and Franklin" and "Apotheosis of Washington" chintzes. The figures of Washington in both are after the famous 

 Trumbull portrait. In the "Apotheosis" chintz note the medallions containing portraits of thirteen famous men in early American history. After 



portraits in the Du Simtier series 



The printing of textiles by the machine process is done 

 by using metal rollers upon which the pattern or design 

 has been engraved. All the artifices of copper and steel 

 engraving may be, and are, employed, and by the variations 

 of stipple and dotting and other devices the number of 

 effects possible is almost without end. But all this, while 

 well enough in its way, does not constitute craftsmanship 

 in its real sense, for in the cotton mills where such methods, 

 of course, prevail, each workman performs merely one 

 detail of the process so that the true spirit of craftsman- 

 ship is wholly lacking. Real craftsmanship implies that 



the work is that of one individual or at most of a small 

 group of workers who are so closely associated in the bonds 

 of craftsmanship that the work may bear the impress of 

 a definite personality. 



In the golden days of cotton printing, one artist worker 

 would himself design the pattern, cut the wooden blocks re- 

 quired, prepare the pigments or dye stuffs and then print 

 the cotton which had been spun into cloth at least under 

 his own supervision. Several sets of blocks must be cut, 

 for a separate set must of course be made for each of the 

 colors to be used. Each color must be printed separately, 



Detail of the "Apotheosis of Washington" chintz from an example in the collection of Mr. Charles Allen Munn, of New York 



