The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-05
DECORATIVE ART.
oRYsrALIzEp ORNAMENTS.

Select good twig of white or black
thorn; wind some loose wool or cotton
around the branches. and tic it on with
worsted. Suspend this in basin or
deep jar. Dissolve two pounds OF
alum in quart of boiling hot water,
and pour itover the twig. Allow it to
stand twelve hours. Wire baskets may
be covered in the same way.
SHAM PILLOW FOR CHILD'S CRIB.
Something new. Make your pillow
the required size, stuff it with husk
stripped up fine. First cover the pill
low with a tight slip of silk, putting a
full puff where the white points will
come. Make white slip, just the size
Of n pillow, out the edges in deep
points, finish with embroidery; work
button-holes in the ends of half the
points; linen buttons fasten the points
together.
LINEN CHEST.
Take common packing trunk, line
the inside with bleached muslin, cover
the lid on top with the same quite
closely, and then between the wood and
the covering stuff sufficient quantity
of curled hair to make the top q good
tonne or rep. Around the lid lay
wide band of some other goods to cor
respond, bordering the edges with cord
at each corner and in the center or
sides of cover; glue on large transfer
flowers, round the sides lay a wide
band, cord it both sides and finish off
with deep worsted fringe, loop up
cord with tassels, fasten it to the lid
little distance apart to open it by.
PAssEPARToUT FRAMES.
Trim the margin of the picture to the
size required; have glass just the
size of the picture; the edges must be
perfectly smooth. Cut cardboard the
size of the glass, about one-half the
length. One inch from the sides cut
with knife small place in the card
board. Cut two pieces of tape each
two inches long and draw the ends
through the places cut in the board,
leaving enough for loop on the right
side; glue the ends down and glue a
small piece of muslin over the ends of
the tape. Ont brown paper and black
morocco paper pieces one yard long
and one inch wide. Hold the glass,
picture and cardboard together, glue
the brown paper first and bind them,
holding them In place at the same time.
Let it dry, then bind with the morocco
paper Pictures, with black back
grounds look nicely bound with red.
For standard passepartout, take of thick
cardboard a piece six and half inches
long, one inch wide at the top, two
inches wide at the bottom; take O
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part of the muslin on to the small end,
the other part to the frame. This is
the genuine way to make passepartout.
/ have made them for the trade.
vALANCEs AND LAMBREQUINs.
Mantel valances and bracket lambre-
quins are made of crochet macrame
lace, lined with colored satin, or have q
strip of satin ribbon running through
the threads, finished at the ends with
bows. TO make the lace, use a large
ivory crochet hook, and cotton sein
cord-that which is very firm is the
best. i used the unfinished for cover,
Put it would not remain in place. Gro
chet q chain of thirteen stitches. put
the thread over the needle twice, put in
the first stitch, slip one, then the other,
three stitches as before, which complete
the shell; nine chains; then in the last
stitch of the first row, make a shell the
same as the first. Turn and make
two chains, one shell, seven chains, one
shell. Turn, make two chains, one
one shell, five chains, putting the needle
in the fifth stitch of the first make nine,
throwing the three chains together in
the center, four chains, one shell. Turn,
two chains, one shell, seven chains, one
shell, two chains. Now make shell of
eight stitches in the outer opening of
the shell directly underneath, complet-
ing the scallop by catching it in the.
outer opening of the first shell made
Put the three over the needle and
make a single crochet between each
sitter of the scallop two chains. Then
commence again from the beginning;
in the small loops at the bottom of the
scallop tic fringe.
The lace makes pretty chair backs
and cushion covers 1t should be
fastened to the mantc; with small brass
tacks.
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