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Griffin Daily News Thursday, August2s, 1977
Historic royal
needlework shown
By GRAHAM HEATHCOTE
Associated Press Writer
IX)NDON (AP) - Lady Jac
ynth Fitzalan Howard spent a
year organizing an exhibition of
needlework and said the hard
est thing she had to find was a
stuffed goat.
The animal was needed to
display an embroidered coat
made for a goat.
“It took me months. I finally
hired one from a taxidermist,"
said Howard, sister-in-law
of the Duke of Norfolk.
The goat stood in for Taffy,
the real live goat mascot of the
Royal Regiment of Wales, a
British army outfit. Taffy’s
coat was designed and worked
by the Royal School of Needle
work, which staged the exhibi
tion, “The Threads of History,”
as a contribution to this year’s
silver jubilee celebrations of
the reign of Queen Elizabeth 11.
The show was open only for
10 days in Ixindon this summer
because the owners of many of
the exhibits, knowing the colors
are prone to fading, will not al
low them to be exposed to day
light for a longer period. The
brightest silks were on the in
sides of lined boxes which are
normally kept closed. Some of
the boxes date back more than
300 years.
Some embroideries retained
their colors better because they
were kept in rooms facing
north, missing most of the di
rect sunlight.
The exhibition stressed royal
connections. Queens and prin
cesses traditionally were skilled
needlewomen. There was a
cushion cover worked by Queen
Elizabeth I when she was still a
princess, about 1550, and anoth
er done by Mary Queen of
Scots, whose death warrant
was signed by Elizabeth in
1587.
Mary had plenty of time for
her craft, spending 20 years
confined in different castles for
plotting against England — at
the end of her life in conspiracy
with the Duke of Norfolk.
In a glass case were reins
embroidered by Mary for a
child learning to walk. The
child was her son, later to be
come King James VI of Scot
land and then, on the death of
Elizabeth in 1603, the first
Stuart monarch of England,
King James I.
Embroidered chairseats on
display were the work of Alice,
Countess of Athlone, 94, grand-
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daughter of Queen Victoria and
the oldest living member of
Britain’s royal family.
The Royal School of Needle
work was founded in 1872 by
Princess Christian, a daughter
of Victoria, with the object of
"restoring ornamental needle
work to the high place it once
held amongst the decorative
arts.”
Howard said the school,
which teaches needlework and
undertakes restoration, is “fan
tastically busy."
“We cannot meet the de
mand,” she said. “I think more
people are becoming interested
for two reasons — they want
something to do while watching
television and, in a machine
age, there is a growing desire
for craftsmanship.”
She said she read the cata
logue of every exhibition of em
broidery in Britain over the
last 30 years to track down the
exhibits, which included a coro
nation robe, samplers, needle
work pictures, wall hangings,
clothes, purses, work bags and
clerical vestments. Private
families own most of the exhib
its and many are handed down
as treasured heirlooms.
Two veils were shown which
belonged to Lady Nelson, wife
of the famous admiral killed at
the Battle of Trafalgar. One of
Brussels lace she wore at her
wedding and the other, of black
Buckingham lace, at an au
dience with the Pope. An em
broidered wedding dress from
the Philippines, done about
1906, was made from sinamay
fabric, woven from the leaf fi
bers of banana and pineapple
plants.
One exhibit, the “Alabama
Hanging,” came from the
United States. It consists of 100
squares, worked in wool on
canvas by Alabama chapters of
the American Needlepoint
Guild. The brightly colored
squares depict events and
themes in the history of the
state. The hanging was lent by
the Birmingham Museum of
Art in Alabama.
Another American exhibit is
kept at the American Museum
in Bath, England — the “Balti
more Bride’s Quilt,” bearing
the name of Alice A. Ryder and
dated April 1, 1847, at Balti
more, Md.
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Needlework picture shown at “The Threads of History” exhibition in London depicts bibical
story of Cain and Abel, shown holding sheaf of grain and a lamb, left. Abel tends his flock
beneath tree, center; Cain kills Abel, right. In foreground Cain guides 17-century plough.
Picture was made about 1628 in a variety of stitches, and Includes laid work, French knots,
metal threads, chenille and spangles, worked in silk on satin.
Chinese family groceries going
as children turn to new careers
By LES SCHLANGER
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) -
King Fung, a 43-year-old Chi
nese, was born in the rear liv
ing quarters of the small gro
cery store he and his family
run in a southwest Phoenix
ghetto peopled mostly by
blacks and Mexican-
Americans.
He grew up there, before the
neighborhood took on the racial
and economic walls of the
ghetto.
Today it’s a high crime area
where policemen travel in pairs
and the door of the grocery is
always bolted. Business — and
it’s good — is conducted at an
outside window, just like a
bank branch.
A slim, energetic man, Fung
smiles as he talks about his
family and his life as a grocer.
In keeping with his prosperity,
the family home was trans
planted years ago to a comfort
able north Phoenix neighbor
hood.
“Most of these people (his
customers) are my friends and
we’ve never been held up,”
said Fung.
The bolt on the door, he ac
knowledges, is there to dis
courage the would-be bandit
and to shut out the shoplifter
entirely.
Fung’s wife June, 42, dark
eyed and vivacious, serves cus
tomers at the window, trading
off this duty with Frankie Eli
gar, 23, a black who has
worked there since boyhood.
Son Kenny, 19, a junior in ac-
counting at Arizona State Uni
versity, and daughter Kathy,
21, have also worked in the
store. Kenny plans to switch to
medicine at Baylor in the fall
and Kathy, a Phoenix College
graduate, wants to major in po
litical science at Rice Univer
sity in Houston.
There are about 70 small Chi
nese grocery stores in the met
ropolitan Phoenix area, em
bracing five suburban cities,
and even more in Tucson, says
Francis Wong, a prosperous
Chinese storekeeper and vice
president of the Associated
Grocers.
"They’ve survived because it
was a family affair with sons
and daughters to work in the
store and living quarters up
stairs or in the rear,” said
Wong.
"This is probably the last
generation of the family Chi
nese store, though, because the
new generation is going to col
lege and turning to the profes
sions,” he said somewhat sad
ly-
Wong says the Chinese grocer
appeared in Arizona in the
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had worked as dish washers or
laundry workers or turned their
hand to other menial tasks to
save the money needed to start
their own business.
John Yee, 49, owns a market
in a neighborhood programmed
for future annexation by the
spreading state capitol grounds.
It, too, is a neighborhood most
ly occupied by blacks and Mex
ican-Amer icans who keep Yee’s
store doing a brisk business. No
bolted doors here, except at
night.
Yee’s father, Henry, born in
China, came to Phoenix with
his family and bought the small
store in 1948. Yee took it over a
few years later when his father
died. He has three sons, one an
electrical engineeer with the
Salt River Project, another who
is a sophomore at Arizona State
and a third in high school.
Yee feels there will always
be a place for the neighborhood
grocer, but that his generation
may be the last of the small
Chinese operators.
Outlet store sales taking climb
NEW YORK (AP) - Manu
facturer outlet sales of men’s
and boys’ wear are expected to
reach the $1.25 billion mark
this year, up from $1 billion in
1976, $750 million in 1975 and
S2OO million in 1973, says a
merchandising consulting
firm.
Marvin A. Blumenfeld, presi-
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firm representing more than 70
of these outlets nationwide, ex
plains that the reason for the
increase is that “today people
are more interested than ever
in getting their money’s worth
and there’s a good economy at
these outlet stores.”
Outlet stores are no-frill, self-
service clothing stores at which
alterations are not available.
They are usually located in
low-rent districts and in old
buildings. Some may sell
brand-name clothes made by
others, with or without the
manufacturer’s label. These
stores sometimes charge more
than 50 per cent less than regu
lar stores, Blumenfeld says.
