To transfer designs, place the black transfer paper on the cloth, lay
the design on the transfer paper, and then go over the lines with a fine
point, bearing on only hard enough to obtain a distinct outline.
In such fabrics as satin jean make the design " across the grain." If
you intend to frame by drawn work, finish your etching and wash it,
before making the frame.
Decorated fabrics should be laundried in pure soap and water only, as
washing chemicals and compounds have no respect for art.
The same ink and pen used for etching on linen are very bad to mark
clothes with. The lighter the etching, the prettier — that is, the light
brown is much prettier than the deep black.
DESIGNS FOR LUNCHEON DOYLIES AND TRAY COVERS.
Doylies for use at luncheon may be bought in ecru or in gray momie
cloth, already fringed, and on each may be worked in crimson washing
cotton a design taken from the specimens of Bohemian crackle ware
now to be seen in all of our shops. Coral, shells, seaweed, kelp, lobs-
ters, crabs, etc., seem more appropriate for use in this connection than
ferns, grass, daisies, butterflies and wild flowers, which in their turn
serve to decorate the fine linen squares employed beneath the finger
bowl at dessert. A set of luncheon doylies made of buff linen has a
series of comical designs, such as elves hiding beneath mushrooms, elves
with caps made of the blossom of the convolvulus reversed, an elf caught
in a cobweb, etc., etc., sketched upon them.
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The prettiest of decorated tray covers are strips of linen crash, or of
linen with deep fringes and drawn-work borders. A spray or sprays of
Japanese quince, of pyrus-japonica, of apple blossom, of jasmine, or of
periwinkle, should be outlined upon the cloth in fine filoselle, in low-
toned shades of brown, olive, pink, amber, crimson or blue. Fine dam-
ask looks best when marked with the initials of the owner in close satin
stitch with embroidery cottons, and monograms are also used, although
less than formerly.
FANCY WORK.
AFGHANS.
A pretty one for a child's carriage is made by taking two full-sized
white clouds, spread them out, and have one for each side of the robe.
Then cover a sheet of wadding, as large as the robe will be, with com-
mon white fly netting, so it will hold the wadding in place. Then have
the clouds one on each side, and tie the way you do a puff, with tufts of
red American wool or narrow pink ribbon bows. Place a heavy fringe
around. It makes a delicate and warm covering for the carriage in cold
weather. For summer, take a large square of white or cream-colored
Java canvas, any size you like ; work the child's initials, surrounded by
a wreath or a cluster of bright flowers ; the Grecian pattern for the bor-
der, with small designs in the corners. One is also pretty worked in
strips of autumn leaves in the natural shades. Then fringe it, and knot
here and there worsted. You can make a heavier fringe with the
crotchet needle. One (robe) a little warmer can be made by crotchet-
ing with a large ivory hook (Afghan stitch) seven strips of American
wool, first a blue and then a white strip, or red and white, leaving the
blue strips for the outside. On the white strips work blue stars, and on
the blue strips work white stars. Fringe with heavy fringe of both
colors.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
To transfer designs, place the black transfer paper on the cloth, lay the design on the transfer paper, and then go over the lines with a fine point, bearing on only hard enough to obtain a distinct outline.
In such fabrics as satin jean make the design " across the grain." If you intend to frame by drawn work, finish your etching and wash it, before making the frame.
Decorated fabrics should be laundried in pure soap and water only, as washing chemicals and compounds have no respect for art.
The same ink and pen used for etching on linen are very bad to mark clothes with. The lighter the etching, the prettier — that is, the light brown is much prettier than the deep black.
DESIGNS FOR LUNCHEON DOYLIES AND TRAY COVERS.
Doylies for use at luncheon may be bought in ecru or in gray momie cloth, already fringed, and on each may be worked in crimson washing cotton a design taken from the specimens of Bohemian crackle ware now to be seen in all of our shops. Coral, shells, seaweed, kelp, lobsters, crabs, etc., seem more appropriate for use in this connection than ferns, grass, daisies, butterflies and wild flowers, which in their turn serve to decorate the fine linen squares employed beneath the finger bowl at dessert. A set of luncheon doylies made of buff linen has a series of comical designs, such as elves hiding beneath mushrooms, elves with caps made of the blossom of the convolvulus reversed, an elf caught in a cobweb, etc., sketched upon them.
The prettiest of decorated tray covers are strips of linen crash, or of linen with deep fringes and drawn-work borders. A spray or sprays of Japanese quince, of pyrus-japonica, of apple blossom, of jasmine, or of periwinkle, should be outlined upon the cloth in fine filoselle, in lowtoned shades of brown, olive, pink, amber, crimson or blue. Fine damask looks best when marked with the initials of the owner in close satin stitch with embroidery cottons, and monograms are also used, although less than formerly.
AFGHANS.
A pretty one for a child's carriage is made by taking two full-sized white clouds, spread them out, and have one for each side of the robe. Then cover a sheet of wadding, as large as the robe will be, with common white fly netting, so it will hold the wadding in place. Then have the clouds one on each side, and tie the way you do a puff, with tufts of red American wool or narrow pink ribbon bows. Place a heavy fringe around. It makes a delicate and warm covering for the carriage in cold weather. For summer, take a large square of white or cream-colored Java canvas, any size you like ; work the child's initials, surrounded by a wreath or a cluster of bright flowers ; the Grecian pattern for the border, with small designs in the corners. One is also pretty worked in strips of autumn leaves in the natural shades. Then fringe it, and knot here and there worsted. You can make a heavier fringe with the crotchet needle. One (robe) a little warmer can be made by crotcheting with a large ivory hook (Afghan stitch) seven strips of American wool, first a blue and then a white strip, or red and white, leaving the blue strips for the outside. On the white strips work blue stars, and on the blue strips work white stars. Fringe with heavy fringe of both colors.
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