Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-29

eight heads and hall high. Rubens
sometimes drew his figures eight heads
high, but generally only seven, which no
doubt accounts for the heavy appearance
that often characterizes them. Mr.. Wards
Shakespeare, in the Central Park, New
York, is said hardly to exceed six heads In
hight; but we can hardly recommend that
piece of sculpture as a model for students.
A Womans Institute of Technical De-
sign has been organized in New York I'M
der favorable auspices, and, there is reason
to believe, will soon be in active operation.
1t is proposed to teach young women car
pet, wallpaper, oil-cloth, lace, and other
industrial art designing, and to find en-
ployment for students as soon as they be-
come competent. There is. doubtless,
plenty of work for all who will qualify for
it. Indeed we have the assurance that
prominent wallpaper and carpet manu-
facturers in that city are to be actively in
terested in the success of the enterprise.
Mrs. Florence E Cory, practical carpet
designer, and favorably known to the car
pet trade, is at the head of the movement
For raising portions of the surface Of
church embroidery so as to give depth of
relief, cardboard cut to the required shape
is sometimes used where only uniform
and only slightly raised flat and narrow
surface is desired. In medi8val needle
work parchment is said to have been en-
ployed for this purpose. The legitimate
way OF producing the effect, however, is by
laying lines of whipcord side by side, tack
ing them down to the linen ground, and
laying the gold passing or silk transversely
over the surface thus formed. Raising of
varying elevation, such as would throw
a leaf or flower into slightly rounded relief,
is sometimes effected in modern practice by
means of little cotton wool but this is
not recommended, for cotton wool tends to
discolor the gold passing, and the ends of
the wool sometimes work through with the
silk stitches used in lacking a better
way of producing the same result, al
though more troublesome, is by the use of
little patches of linen, so varied in size
and packed one on another as to produce
the required relief.
In the ordinary small album the places
for portraits are SO cut as to offer little
scope for ingenuity. A separate frame or
border may be painted around each, and
this, if well done, produces a beautiful
effect, although of course it does not i'm
prove the arrangement. In an album deco
rated in this way some pages were given
the appearance of gold frames, and were
very elaborate /; others were painted to
look like rough wood. Some had wreath
of roses, convolvuli, and white lilies ON
green leaves, and others bow of ribbon at
the top and bottom, the ends forming the
sides. In the large square albums photo
graphs can be freely grouped according to
taste, without regard to regularity. a large
photograph may perhaps occupy the great
er part of a page, leaving little room for a
border, or one which must necessarily be
small and narrow. For this twisted rib
bon may be managed, or plat of different
colored ribbons, or plain gold border
edged with color A number of portraits,
some overlapping the Others, and apparent
ly thrown down in confusion, but in fact
arranged with great care, has "a, very good
effect.
Every lady, in driving about town for a
morning of shopping, knows the incon-
venience of little parcels that refuse to stay
together on the carriage seat. A useful
novelty, just introduced, is a carriage
purse fitted with large ivory rings and
lined with colored silk. One OF these, in
myrtle green velvet, was embroidered with
sprays of jasmine and lined with pale yell
low surah. Another, in black satin, was
powdered with tiny embroidered peacock
feathers, and lined with peacock blue
satin. Still another, in dark blue plush,
was lined with cardinal satin and trimmed
with tassels of cardinal silk. A purse of
this kind may always be transferred to the
arm of drawing room chair, and used to
hold materials for embroidery. If
economy is to be consulted, navy blue
cashmere and dark red lining silk and
tassels may be prettily combined, mono
gram in red embroidered on one end. Or
binary curtain rings of wood or brass might
serve to hold the purse together. Another
pretty piece of work is card-case Of
plush, embroidered with japanese gold
(which does not tarnish) in Japanese de-
sign of flying storks and clouds. A blotter
was made of velvet embroidered with
japanese gold, and lined with watered silk.
A photograph frame worked in this way
with gold on velvet is very effective, if it
is properly mounted by professional
hand. In all this embroidery OF gold
thread, wherever there are solid masses, it
is better to do them separately, than trans
fer them to the plush. The long pile hides
the transfer stitches, and lines, dots or ar.
rowheads can be added afterward.
An inexpensive table cover, and one
castle made, is square of dark.red billiard
cloth or diagonal serge. Around the edge
form border of ivy. leaves cut from scraps
of green velvet, serge and cloth, applique
and veined with lighter shade of the
silk. Work the stalks and vine in brown
filoselle in feather tcrewel) stitch. By tax
ing a pattern in paper from natural ivy
leaf, and afterward cutting it from the ma
terial, any amateur can make pretty de-
sign for herself. The valance for mantel-
board can be made of resedas sateen in.
serted between two bands of olive serge or
cloth. Work upon the sateen continuous
pattern of small sunfowers, which are as
much In vogue as ever. For this, cut circles
of golden-browr plush for the centers Of
the sunfowers, and work over them sort
of lattice-work of yellow silk threads, in
long loose stitches, caught at the intersec-
ton. Add petals of yellow flannel or cloth,
worked down with silk of the same shade
in long stitches. Work vine to connect
the sunhowers in double brown crewel
mingled with brown filoselle. Make foliage
by cutting out the leaves from green serge
and cloth in different shades, and grouping
them, by the eye, along the vine. A drop
of gum. tragacanth on the reverse side will
secure these applique patterns in place un-
til you are prepared to work them. If you
like, a COUGHING of green brown crewel,
caught down with green silk, makes good
finish for the leaves. but an irregular but
tonhole stitch, with veinings in silk, will
suffice. CONSTANCE Cary Harrison in the
Art Amateur.
Scarcely nything seems SO easy as to de.
sign monogram, yet we see very few sue
cessful ones, the most of them being mass
of mixed-up letters and ornament Of which
we can find neither the beginning nor the
end. There is law regulating the DESIGN.