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Story of a Transplanted Industry: Lace Workers of the Italian Quarter of New York
Story of a Transplanted Industry: Lace Workers of the Italian Quarter of New York
Article · 6 pages
A 1907 Craftsman article describing the Scuola d'Industrie Italiane, a school in New York's Italian quarter (MacDougal Street) that taught Italian immigrant girls to make Italian embroidery and lace from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century patterns. It covers the revival of lace-making in Italy, the founding of the school in 1905 under Miss Carolina Amari, working conditions and wages compared with box factories, materials, products, markets, and the committee of sponsors. Illustrated with line drawings of women at work.

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