HOME INDUSTRIES.
Purely home industries play a very important part in the life of many continental nations. Switzerland, by its position, people and climate, appears to be particularly adapted to the carrying out in the.homes of the people of a vast amount of work—work which in English towns ard villages would be performed in factories. The toys, embioideries, watches, etc., that are made in the I homes of the Swiss are known the world over. In Masterton there is direct evidence of this home work. The W.F.C.A. have just landed by parcel post direct from Rebstein, the centre of embroidery \tfork in Switzerland, eleven packages of beauitful examples of the art. Much of it is hand-made worked by the peasants in their own homes. Some of it is worked on hand looms, which in most cases are hired to the workers. _ It is pleasant employment that jfefps them busy during the long winter 'months, when it is almost impossible to leave their homes to labour in the fields. The W.F.C.A. will be pleased to show the work to anyone interested, whether buyers or not. The goods are now on exhibition.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3187, 12 May 1909, Page 5
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190HOME INDUSTRIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3187, 12 May 1909, Page 5
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