THE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE authors are pleased to express grateful indebtedness to a number of friends in Indianapolis.
To Miss Roda E. Selleck, Shortridge High School, for her advanced high school projects in the development and application of batik designs; also in the application of tie-dyeing and blown stenciling.
To Miss Carolyn S. Ashbrook, Shortridge High School, for her projects with an elementary high school class.
To Miss Olive Rush, who designed and executed “The Capture” for thefrontispiece.
To Miss Blanche Stillson for assistance in illustrating the wax resist processes; also for her designs, the blouse, page80, and the pattern, page87.
To Mr. Charles E. Rush, Librarian of the Public Library, for securing valuable publications of the Dutch Government.
To Mr. George Somnes, Director of The Little Theater, and Mrs. Eugene Fife, Little Theater, for their work revealed inChapter V.
For the loan of old textiles, Miss Eliza Niblack, Curator of Textiles, John Herron Art Institute, thesarong, page76, and the chundri, page110; Mrs. Clifton A. Wheeler, the Javanese patterns, page95; Mrs. William O. Bates, the sarong design used for theend papers; Miss Florence Fitch, Director of Art, Public Schools, the Indian block printing, page126.
For permission to photograph their own handicraft, Miss Mary Overbeck (Cambridge City, Ind.) the tie-dyed patterns, pages113and115; Mrs. James Thompson, the costume jewelry, page78, and the tie-dyed scarf, page115; Mrs. J. R. Brant, the blouse, page82; Miss Mary Janet O’Reilly, the camisole, page78.
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“THE CAPTURE,” BY OLIVE RUSH
“THE CAPTURE,” BY OLIVE RUSH