Identifier: koesterschoolboo00cowarich (find matches)
Title: The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cowan, George John, 1877- Bates, William Henry, 1879-
Subjects: Show windows Display of merchandise Draperies
Publisher: Chicago, The Dry Goods Reporter
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the Orient, hundreds of years old, showing how fabrics weredraped along the walls similar to methods in vogue athousand years or more ago. Early Histohv of Dhaimnc. The next tangible trace of early draping that I have been able to find wasin an old book printed in the year 1840, and called Old London Shop Fronts.This book is illustrated with steel engravings, colored by hand, and was intendedto interest the architect who was interested in planning store fronts. It uncon-sciously serves our purpose, because I find several of the fronts are trimmedwith dress goods and silks, and thus gives us a very correct idea of how drapingwas done nearly one hundred years ag-o in London. Thus you will see that the drap-ing of fabrics had not developed very much In thousands of years. And afterreading this book you will find that practically all the real progress in this workhas been during the last twenty-five years.
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An old Loii(l(iii .Slioj) over TTi years old showing the use of small panes of glas.s, before plate glass was invented. Notice the dress goods drapes In the windows. Koestcr, because his natural ability in thi^ 12 It was just at thebeginning of this pe-riod that Mr. AlbertA. Koester realizedt li e possibilities o fwliat could be done intlie draping of fab-rics in such a waythat the completedrape would suggestor imitate a complet-ed gown, the advan-tage being that thecustomer would notonly see the designand texture, butwould see how thisparticular fabricwould look w h e n111 a d c up, or. bet-t e r still, wouldsuggest to her how tomake it up. It ismore than probablethat other trimmershad something to dowith this develop-ment, but most of thecredit must go to Mr.line of work made it very superior, Eahly History of Dhaitnc; and because he early tried to help other trimmers to a thoroii<^h knowledge ofdraping. ITe did this by fovmding a window trimming school in Cjermany and illus-trat

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