The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-14
TISSUE FLOWERS AND PARTIES.
Tho Beautiful Art Which Is Taking th'
Place of the Crazy Quilt.

Tho Beautiful Art Which Is Taking tho
Place Of the Crazy Quilt.
Tissue paper flowers are the feminine
craze now The show windows are reSplen-
dent with tulips, roses, daisies, poppies and
yiolets made out of tissue paper, and young
ladies of society are devoting hours to &C
curing the art Of their manufacture. 1t is
a pastime particularly interesting, and it is
remarkable what beautiful floral effects are
produced with colored paper, little wire, q
little glue, and q pair of scissors An en-
terprisin3 manufacturing company has
taken advantage of the craze, and has put
I'D in boxes all assortment of different col
ored tissue paper, with small coil OF fine
wire and few pieces of very fine soft rub
Der pipe, to be used for stems These boxes
together with a pamphlet of instructions,
are sold at trihing sum by the thousands.
Young ladies with no knowledge of the
manufacture of artificial flowers, it is said,
can. with the contents of one of those boxes,
and by the aid of the hook of instructions,
nroduce the most natural domestic Eowers
with little practice.
"Tissue-paper parties have already be-
come popular Tho fashionable world al
ways eagerly welcomes any now entertain
rnent which promises to be both novel and
amusing, and it has taken hold of the tissue
paper mania at these cuiot little assent
blages not only striking effects in flowers
are produced, but dresses are manufact-
ured. The paper used at these affairs is
imported, and comes in O most marvellous
variety and beauty Of color. Some of The
garments made out of this film y material
are exceedingly beautiful As can lie easily
imagined, the variety of colors, Shades and
tints is almost inoxhaustibl. and every
Lind Of combination and effect arc possible.
In the matter of trimming there is scope
for all sorts OF imitations-iowers, fringes,
luls and a hundred AMI one furbelows
which women only understand tho name or
the object OF. There must be great deal
of satisfaction in lady making such
dress and then yiowing it with rapturous
feminine deli It, but this satisfaction can
not, of course, compared to that Of the
master of the house, who finds his relief in
the fact that it costs but few cents.
But it is the manufacture of flowers from
this imported paper which has turned tho
youn. feminine mind upside down. In the
wonderful craze for fancy work these paper
flowers are much used for ornamentation.
Roses and poppies much larger than nature
are used for decorating la o curtains, pill
low cases, backs of plush sofas and chairs,
and easels A very popular feature OF the
parlor is basket or these flowers The
basket itself is mado Of dark-colored parer,
without foundation, simply in ring, and
the material is placed in folds. The flow.
CTS themselves are tEen laid on shavinss,
which fill out and keep tie basket in sEapc.
The handle, OF wire, is covered with paper,
with sweet peas OF other climbing flowers,
twined around it Such basket Of flowers
can scarcely DO distinguished from wax. \
saillful hand, however, is needed il their
manufacture.
The prcttiest thing have seen made OF
tissue paper is q mat representing a water
lily" said q young LADY the other day,
while in conversation with the writer ~ Oh
the subject "The lerfect form OF the he IL
tiful flower was reproduced 1t was mae
upon foundation Of very large leaf, an /
upon this leaves in graduated sizes are
placed, the lower ones being of dark green,
the center of very pale yellow, while the i'll
termediate leaves were OF graduated tipts.
You have no idea what happy effect was
produced New York Sun.