A novel hanging-basket maybe made as follows: Among trees
that have just been felled some may be found with slender trunks.
Cut a piece from one of these about a foot long, more or less, as you
care, remove the bark, saw off the top flat on the lengthy side and
scoop out the interior, leaving about one inch or less of thickness on
the sides and bottom ; paint of a brown color and varnish ; tack on
the sides either a chain, ribbon, or card to hang it by; fill the trunk
with artificial moss and flowers, and you have a hanging-basket
unique in its way.
The following is said to be an excellent method of fastening cloth
to the top of tables, desks, etc.: Make a mixture of two and a quar-
ter pounds of wheat flour, two tablespoonfuls of powdered resin, and
two tablespoonfuls of powdered alum; rub the mixture in a suitable
vessel, with water✪ Table Cloth Fastening Paste, to a uniform, smooth paste; transfer this to a
small kettle over a fire, and stir until the paste is perfectly homogene-
ous, without lumps. As soon as the mass has become so stiff that
the stirrer remains upright in it, transfer to another vessel and cover
it up so that no skin may form on its surface. This paste is applied
in a very thin layer to the surface of the table; the cloth, or leather,
is then laid and pressed upon it, and smoothed with a roller. The
ends are cut off after drying. If leather is to be fastened on, this
must first be moistened with water. The paste is then applied, and
the leather rubbed smooth with a cloth.
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Old photographs of the fancy kinds may be used advantageously
by pasting them on screens or lampshades, and subsequently glazing
them.
Cone frames are easily made, and the materials are within the
reach of all. The foundation is of heavy paste-board and the various
materials are secured with glue. Cone scales are placed around the
outer and inner edges, and the centre of the frame may be filled with
acorns, the centre of cones, which look like little roses, beech-nut
hulls, small twigs and the various nuts and seeds formed into flowers
to represent a continuous wreath. The frame must be cut to fit the
picture and may be of any width desired; the back must also be of
card-board, and then the glass and picture placed between the front
and back, and the two sewed together, after which the frame may be
decorated as above.
A lovely pair of curtains may be made of ordinary fine muslin,
curtains on which may be tastefully grouped birds, flowers, Watteau
shepherds and shepherdesses, or graceful ferns, peacocks, oriental
foliage, and bright-hued butterflies cut from cretonne. Cretonne may
be purchased in great variety of styles, but too many subjects should
not be introduced into one piece of work. The flowers, etc., are
appliqued on, and worked up in colored filoselles. The result of
this work is very graceful if the design is carried out in an unstudied
manner, and has always the charm of novelty.
A pretty three-fold screen may be worked on dull blue English
serge in crewels. On one panel might be a bird-nest and birds 011
a branch, upon the next, wild roses and butterflies, and on the third,
a bouquet of lilies or marguerites.
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A novel hanging-basket maybe made as follows: Among trees that have just been felled some may be found with slender trunks. Cut a piece from one of these about a foot long, more or less, as you care, remove the bark, saw off the top flat on the lengthy side and scoop out the interior, leaving about one inch or less of thickness on the sides and bottom ; paint of a brown color and varnish ; tack on the sides either a chain, ribbon, or card to hang it by; fill the trunk with artificial moss and flowers, and you have a hanging-basket unique in its way.
The following is said to be an excellent method of fastening cloth to the top of tables, desks, etc.: Make a mixture of two and a quarter pounds of wheat flour, two tablespoonfuls of powdered resin, and two tablespoonfuls of powdered alum; rub the mixture in a suitable vessel, with water, to a uniform, smooth paste; transfer this to a small kettle over a fire, and stir until the paste is perfectly homogeneous, without lumps. As soon as the mass has become so stiff that the stirrer remains upright in it, transfer to another vessel and cover it up so that no skin may form on its surface. This paste is applied in a very thin layer to the surface of the table; the cloth, or leather, is then laid and pressed upon it, and smoothed with a roller. The ends are cut off after drying. If leather is to be fastened on, this must first be moistened with water. The paste is then applied, and the leather rubbed smooth with a cloth.
Old photographs of the fancy kinds may be used advantageously by pasting them on screens or lampshades, and subsequently glazing them.
Cone frames are easily made, and the materials are within the reach of all. The foundation is of heavy paste-board and the various materials are secured with glue. Cone scales are placed around the outer and inner edges, and the centre of the frame may be filled with acorns, the centre of cones, which look like little roses, beech-nut hulls, small twigs and the various nuts and seeds formed into flowers to represent a continuous wreath. The frame must be cut to fit the picture and may be of any width desired; the back must also be of card-board, and then the glass and picture placed between the front and back, and the two sewed together, after which the frame may be decorated as above.
A lovely pair of curtains may be made of ordinary fine muslin, curtains on which may be tastefully grouped birds, flowers, Watteau shepherds and shepherdesses, or graceful ferns, peacocks, oriental foliage, and bright-hued butterflies cut from cretonne. Cretonne may be purchased in great variety of styles, but too many subjects should not be introduced into one piece of work. The flowers, etc., are appliqued on, and worked up in colored filoselles. The result of this work is very graceful if the design is carried out in an unstudied manner, and has always the charm of novelty.
A pretty three-fold screen may be worked on dull blue English serge in crewels. On one panel might be a bird-nest and birds on a branch, upon the next, wild roses and butterflies, and on the third, a bouquet of lilies or marguerites.
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