The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

MANUFACTURES BUILDING 25 The same proceeding has been used zuith respect to the zvorks ex- hibited by Danish women. They, too, are io be found belozu p. 75 as a section of their own, it having been deemed desirable that special attention should be called to these products, as various circumstances have rendered it impossible io gather a somewhat large exposition of female work in the Women’s Building. They are exhibited in the Danish section in the Manufactures Building, a small loan collection only having got room in the Women’s Palace. From olden time a large and extensive female domestic industry has existed. The manufactory work of modern times, however, has restrained it greatly. A peculiar and beautiful remnant is the so-called »Hedebo- syning«, peasant embroidery named from the Hedebo country, situated between the two Sealand towns of Roskilde and Kjøge. This embroidery has now been artistically revived, and the efforts that have been made to call forth interest in artistic needlework have proved successful. The painter the late Mr. P. C. Skov guard and Mrs. Skov- gaard are highly deserving of this work; and at her death in 1868 Mrs. Skovgaard left behind numerous pupils. A School of design for Women, established in 1877, is working for the general develop- ment of art industry of women. It originated with Dansk Kvinde- samfund (The Danish Women’s Association), founded in 1871, that is working for the general social improvement of women, and thus also for their training to independency of profession and livelihood. The movement has now reached, the acme of art: from 1888 the Royal Aca- demy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen has established a special School of A r t for women. It will be seen from the above that strenuous efforts are at zuork in -many ways in order to bring into existence a Danish art industry, and it is to be hoped they will succeed. The last step in that direc- tion is the foundation of a Danish Museum for Art Industry (1890) which will not, however, be in activity' till next year.