e._ First Steps in Weaving 30

_Chapter Four._ Methods of Stringing Warp 42

_Chapter Five._ Materials 51

_Chapter Six._ Directions for Dyeing 58

_Chapter Seven._ Methods of Splicing Materials for Weaving 83

_Chapter Eight._ Wool and Silkoline Rugs or Mats 86

_Chapter Nine._ Hammocks 93

_Chapter Ten._ Face and Dish Cloths and Bath Rugs 99

_Chapter Eleven._ Raffia Mats 101

_Chapter Twelve._ Oriental Rugs 122

_Chapter Thirteen._ Navajo Blankets 135

_Chapter Fourteen._ Songs, Games, and Stories 143

_Chapter Fifteen._ A List of Helpful Books and Magazine Articles 153

The Index 159

The highest
aim of art is
to make some
useful thing
beautiful.

Kenyon Cox.

AN INTRODUCTION

For many years we, the teachers of the United States assembled in
village, city, State, and national conventions, have recited our creed
and chanted it in all keys.

[Sidenote: _Our creed_]

We believe that man is a trinity, three in one--head, heart, and hand,
one soul made manifest; we believe that this union is vital and
indissoluble, since "what God hath joined together" may not be rent
asunder; we believe that this three-fold man, being "put to school" on
earth to grow, may devise and bring to successful issue no scheme of
education that is out of harmony with the plan of the Creator.

Congratulating ourselves upon our ready and distinct utterance of this
lofty thought, we have calmly returned to our man-devised book-schools
for the acquisition of knowledge, in order to forward some plan for the
accumulation of more knowledge.

[Sidenote: _Deeds, not words, are now necessary_]

But "wisdom lingered"! Here and there voices were raised that would not
be silenced: "You sang your beautiful song; what are you going to _do_
about it?" In the words of John Stuart Mill, "It is now time to assert
in deeds, since the power of words is well-nigh exhausted."

Investigators, studying this union of head and hand from the
physiological side, hurled truths at us