{"product_id":"2940150064263","title":"How To Make Rugs: An Instructional Classic By Candace Wheeler! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subject of Home Industries is beginning to attract the attention of those who are interested in political economy and the general welfare of the country, and thoughtful people are asking themselves why, in all the length and breadth of America, there are no well-established and prosperous domestic manufactures.\u003cbr\u003eWe have no articles of use or luxury made in homes which are objects of commercial interchange or sources of family profit. To this general statement there are but few exceptions, and curiously enough these are, for the most part, in the work of our native Indians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stranger in America, wishing--after the manner of travelers--to carry back something characteristic of the country, generally buys what we call \"Indian curiosities\"--moccasins, baskets, feather-work, and the one admirable and well-established product of Indian manufacture, the Navajo blanket. But these hardly represent the mass of our people.\u003cbr\u003eWe may add to the list of Indian industries, lace making, which is being successfully taught at some of the reservations, but as it is not as yet even a self-supporting industry, the above-named \"curiosities\" and the Navajo blanket stand alone as characteristic hand-work produced by native races; while from our own, or that of the co-existent Afro-American, we have nothing to show in the way of true domestic manufactures.","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156427129072,"sku":"2940150064263","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150064263_p0.jpg?v=1763729197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150064263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}