The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
FOR THE LADIES.
New and Effective Design for II Mantel
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS English Fancy
Work.
Dainty and Inexpensive Dresse. for Dane
ing Partie.-Whai Girl saw I'm
London.
DECORATIVE NOTES.

Among the most popular English
fancy-wOrk embroidered lace may be
mentioned White or cream-co,ored
furniture lace. with raised pattern is
best. Trace the pattern i'm tinsel and
embroidcr thickly in button-hole and
other flat. fancy-stiches everywhere en-
cept on the tinsei and over the back
ground. Stamped velvet, on the con-
trary, has the background entirely COW
cred with tinsel. thus giving the APP
pearance of velvet with gold silver or
metallic background. COlOrs are now
sold woven in with the tinsel-bluc and
silver, scarlet and gold. etc.
Pillow lace does not find much favor
in London as i'm employment for ladies.
The cost of the thread, the expenditure
of eye-sight. patience. and time render
it distastcful TO those who only require
.'ten minutes work." and ladies who
can afford the cost of the material could
afford to buy real lace. 1t is only a very
few who find patience and time to ''try.
try again. when they find the thread
snap, the bobbins become displaced,
and the whole dirty and mattractive.
Guipure is easy TO do, and on the whole
is perhaps cheaper; but of all the home
made laces of which | have had any
experience ! can most highly recon-
mend Macrame. Ii is true that the
thread is dear $50 is all proper lace cot
tOn) and that it whips and cuts the fin
gers, but ut the same time il is quickly
worked. and, when finished very effect
i've.
Beaded collars and cuffs are novel
They should be made of small round
beads gold, silver. or indeed almost
any kind and color) and Andalusian
wool and No. 10 needles. For cuffs cast
on fifteen stitches; knit one plain row,
then row putting bead up to every
stitch except the first and last; then II
plain row. and another with beads. Re-
peat until the strip is long enough to
slip over the hand; tken knit one plain
row and bind of. TO knit the collar,
cast on five stitches; knit first a plain
row with beads: i'm the third row make
one by knitting two in the first stitch,
then knit plain to the end of the row.
Repeat until you have ten stitches. AL
ternate bead and plain rows until the
collar (abOut two inches wide) will
meet round the neck. Then decrease
one in every plain row as You increased
before, until you have five stitches; then
knit one plain row and bind off. These
collars and cuhs, if properly made, have
almost the effect of necklaces and brace
lets.
A new and exceedingly effective de-
sign for mantel lambrequin is COM
posed of cone-flowers i'm their natural
size worked on dark olive-green plush.
A strip of the plush sixteen inches deep
and the length of the mantlc-shelf cx-
tends straight across the front. From
the bottom of this strip and extending
nearly to the top the cone-ilowers are
gracefully arranged, the leaves worked
with fine chenille and the yellow petals
with two shades of ribbOsene, the dark
brown centers of the blossoms in knot
stitch with embroidery silk. Tassels of
green ribbosene. with full, yellow heads
finish the lower edge. A straight strip
of green plush is laid across the mantle
top and hangs down on each end Il
trifle lower than the embroidered piece
across the front. These ends are lined
with yellow satin and trimmed on the
bottom with the ribbOsene tassels. The
effect of the yellow cone-llower and the
odd tassels is unusually rich, and forms
one of the handsomest designs that it
has been our pleasure to see this season.
The FOrai Cdbinct.