Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781332075638

Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees and a List of Members: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1884 Altogether, the Trustees consider that the institution has been fortunate in securing a property in every respect so desirable as this. In September, the School was opened in its new quarters with a corps of seven teachers, including instructors in drawing, modelling, the application of design to oil-cloths and textiles, weaving, and wood-carving. During the summer the rooms had been fitted up with appliances for teaching these branches of art industry. The wood-carving room has seven benches with a full set of tools for each bench. The weaving-rooms have two pattern hand-looms, duplicates of those in use at the Bradford Technical School, Bradford, England; one Jacquard loom, made especially for the School, and capable of carrying thirty-six hundred threads for thirty-six inch goods; and one Compton loom, forty-four inch, twenty-seven sets harness. This latter was the generous gift of Mr. George Compton, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who in his letter conveying the gift wrote: "I present the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art with this loom, with my compliments and best wishes for the success of the School in the most thorough and practical line. The only condition I wish to make is, that whenever the School shall have finished, using the loom, it will be returned to me. This, however, I trust will never occur." The Trustees feel that no more gratifying evidence could be had of the interest taken in the success of this department of the School by manufacturers abroad, than such a gift from such a source as this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.