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industrial art.
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part of which, however, is derived from sweated industry. Other districts
where domestic industries for the purposes of profit are of importance are the
Läns of Kopparberg, 1 289 000 kronor, Västerbotten, 1 288 000 kronor, and the
Läns of Jönköping, Kristianstad and Halland, each of which has a
production-value of 600 000 — 800 000 kronor.
The domestic industries movement. It is certain that the production
of home-industry articles, especially those made with a view to sale, has, after
a long period of decline, considerably increased during låte years, and this,
thanks to the modern home-sloyd movement, which has as its object the
reawakening of the old national love of work, the development of manual skill
and the creation, on the basis of inherited traditions, of a revivified home-sloyd
as a source of income for the great mass of the people. The movement may
be said to date from the foundation of the Northern Museum. By the efforts
of the society called "Handarbetets vänner" (The Friends of Art Needle-work),
Jacob and Thora Kulle, and others, many beautiful textUe designs and ancient
technics have been preserved from falling into oblivion, and the artistic
productions of domestic industries turned into articles of trade, chiefly by the efforts
of the Association for Swedish Domestic Industries (Sw. Föreningen för Svensk
Hemslöjd). The Agricultural Societies, which, ever since their establishment,
have had the improvement of domestic industries as one item of their
programme, began to work most zealously in the above-mentioned direction, aided,
as they were, by increased State grants. By means of co-operation between
the Agricultural Societies, the Domestic Industries Associations (which, at the
present day, exist in most of the läns), and private persons, there have been
established within the districts of the various Agricultural Societies fixed schools
of domestic industries, and ambulatory sloyd-courses, where the peasants are
instructed in domestic industrial pursuits, especially in those peculiar to the
province, either gratis or for a very low fee; old designs have been imitated, new
ones drawn which were based on the old ones, and steps have been taken to
provide for the sale of the objects produced by these domestic industries, by the
establishment of special shops for this purpose. But much remains to be done
ere domestic industries once more occupy the place they deserve — not in rivalry
with great manufacturing industries and handicrafts, but side by side with, and
supplementing these forms of production, and as a weighty ethical, esthetical
and economic factor in the life of the nation.
13. INDUSTRIAL ART.
The flourishing condition of the industrial art of Sweden took its rise
more than forty years ago and has steadily developed ever since. The
first inspiring impulse in this branch of industry, after nearly half a
century of extreme decadence, came from England, where the Great
Exhibition of 1851 showed this decline in most discouraging aspect. The
reaction which then commenced, stimulated by artists and others
interested in art, found its first and momentous expression in the
establishment of the South Kensington Museum and the industrial art schools
associated with it. From England the movement extended to other
coun-32—133179. Smeden II.
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