Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-25
Work-Basket Gossip.
CHAIRBAcKs IN CREwEL AND ARRAsENE.

Boston TRANSCRIPT
one new pattern for work doth tread on an
others heels at this season. and 1t is next to I'M
possible to keep record OF the odd and pretty
things that appear. to say nothing OF the ugly
the new fmportadons and fix themselves In the
memory In the most vexatlouS way After
spending an hour in looking at gay novelties,
the thing best remembered Is some slipper pat
terms representing bugs OF all kinds, big and
little, with heavy Shards, with floating wings,
long, short fat, slender, bright and dull-colored.
bugs pretty bugs, bugs tOlerable and not to be
endured, spread on a canvas background, ready
to be filled in by some fair one and given to her
favorfte young man. This design looks as il its
maker had spilled a handful OF dacalcomania
patterns on a table and reproduced the result,
and the man who gets pair OF slippers orna-
/ mented with it will be excused for using slang
If he say, ''Got 'em again., when he looks at the
array of chronological specimens spread out on
his feet. There is no reason why any poor fe-
low should be frightened by this pattern, how
ever, for there are hundreds of others that are
really pretty. Among these are leaf garlands
with wheat ears sprinkled here and there among
them; flowers worked In Old tapestry colOrS;
daisies and buttercups twisted into gay bands;
and If one insists upon insects, are not butter
flies prlsOned about with rose wreathS in some
OF the patterns?
Among the new materials shown this sea son
is granite linen, which is OF a dull white with
gray mOttlingS and makes an excellent back
ground for warm crimsonS. 1t IS used for table
covers and also fer chairbachs. 1t is of Lit lie
use TO try to introduce the English word anti
macasSar into the dialect known as good United
States. The word means nothing to u.s. and
next to nothing to Englishmen who no longer
make themselves hideouS by greaSing their lair,
as they did in the days of George Osborne and
Thine incompatible oil, Macassar''
Ildy is an ugly name, as unpleaSantly SuggeS-
tive as its English synonyme, but chairbacd is
snort, and defines the article meant by it pretty
wei, without reminding persons who find it in
use that it is thought necessary to protect furni
ture from being injured by them.
The new wooden tides, anti macaSSarS. chair
D2ckS what Will have dark grounds
and are divided into central square and mar
glnal squares and rectangleS by bars OF velvet
in the Old familiar fashion. The patterS worked
upon them are rather richer in color and more
carefully shaded than those seen for several sea-
sons, and seem to indicate that South kensing
ton does by no means stand still, but improves
its work steadily. The sunfiowers which have
been so popular in Boston for some time come
from the other side of the Atlantic in modified
point, and making designs that are novel. Ivy
vines are used, when soft and rich color is pre-
ferred to gay tints, and the cat-tal is still a IA
vorite ornament. In the silk serges and glossy
materials generally the old gold tintS prevail
especially when the material used for embrod-
cry is arrasene, the new chenille that is not
chenille and not floss, but as velvety as the
one and as glossy as the other. The favorite
pattern in this material is the Gala lily, but
dog-roses and their leaves are worked in ARA
sene with good effect. and it is well adapted to
fruit designs, representing the bloom of plulns
and the down OF peaches perfectly. ChafrbackS
OF the double-faced satin In olive and blue ma
room and old gold, and blue and Old gold cost
1928 with the pattern marked and partly worked
upon them. Geranium blossoms, which have
hitherto been unaccountably neglected by the
CmbrOdererS, have been taken up this year and
will probably be much used. On background
OF deep, dark olive, the scarlet flowers and horse
shoe marked leaf Of geranium are very beau
tiful. The felt cloths for chairbackS come in a
great variety of colors, are sixty inches wide,
and cost but Sl.50 yard, so that they are the
cheapest OF cheap things for covering cushions
and chairs, besides being pretty as foundation
for embroidery. Ladies who cannot do the Ken
Sington work can buy squares OF the felt cloth
and embrOfder it in some Old-faShOned style
with very good effect if they use their colors
carefully.
Among the convenient articles for the use OF
the needlewOman are creWel-caSeS, squares Of
brown linen with an oblong strip OF the same
material stitched upon them in such way that
the SheinS OF creWel can be pulled into the
spaces between the Stitchings when first cut and
not removed thence as all. Workings Of black
satin embroidered with peoples, bachelors but
tons and blackberry vines, and lined with old
gold satin, are pretty for the use of young ladies
who like to carry their work about with them
when visiting. The new wall pocketS in which
stores unconSidered trifleS as well worSted-
work are OF rattan, and are ornamented with
very large bows OF garnet, geranium and Zulu
satin ribbon, so that gay is word that but family
describes them.