St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-13
Art NeedlewOrk.

Hundreds of ladies and many gentlemen
yesterday visited the large and beautiful
new store of the Domestic Sewing Machine
company, Is East Third street. Having
become settled in these quarters, Mr.. A. l..
Moore, the general manager, concluded to
give an exhibition of the Domestic s''work
and with this view the doors were thrown
open to the public yesterday morning. On
entering the visitor is bewildered amid the
decorative splendOr which surrounds him.
Suspended upon the walls on the left are
handsome pOrtierres. The first is
Of olive satin trimmed with
a border strip of peacock-blue plush EN-
broidered deliberately in persian colors; an
other, larger in size, is cardinal with plush
dado and frieze decorated with mosaics and
embroidery of silk tinsel and arrasene.
There are also many hangings and curtains
done in applique, COUGHING and etching in
Egyptian, Arabic, French and disc designs
on both heavy and light materials. A
number of exquisite screens are exhibited
one of which is ebony frame with embroid-
cry, representing japanese landscape at
sunset which possesses the perfect figures
and delicate blendings of an Oil painting.
A double screen of cherry with PANELS Of
black satin has perfect representations of
golden rod and sumack embroidered in
arrasene. The table covers add much to
the general attraction. Among others
there is one representing Turkish work in
coors, and designs finished in silk. Near
one of the large windows hangs an oval
shaped wall-pocket covered in plush with
SNOWFALL ornaments. These limitations are
true to nature and are the object of much
comment. Hardly less commemorate is a
wine-colored pillow, which seemingly has
an autumn bow from an oak tree, with an
owl perched thereon, laid across it, but
which in reality is a skillful arrangement of
tinsel Panels and bannerets in all con-
ceivable shapes and as much variety in
decoration are on every hand. The win
dows, too, are filled with toilet sets,
pin cushions, perfumery bags, whisk
holders, match safes. bangle boards,
and many other fancy articles, as well as
some which are adapted to substantial uses.
All of this grand display is but to show
what the Domestic sewing machine can do.
and it clearly proves that any embroidery
can be duplicated by its use, and with the
same materials used by hand; and further,
that hundreds of beautiful ornaments can
be made on the machine which are too large
and elaborate to be produced otherwise
The articles already mentioned are mar
velous when it is considered how they were
made, but when an easel is reached upon
which rests an almost life-sized embroidered
picture entitled 1.-THE Queen of the Orient"
a climax is reached which it was impossible
to expect A few feet off it cannot be dis
tinguished from a masterpiece of the paint
er'S art.
+ The exhibition will last during the re-
mainder of this week, and no lady should
miss the opportunity of attending it. 1t
will be under the supervision of Mrs. J. l..
Nichols, Chicago, whose thorough knowl
edge of the Domestic machine and its work
enables her to fully explain the particulars
of the various exhibits.