The Arizona sentinel., 1886-06-26
TISSUE FLOWER PARTIES.
The Beautiful Art Which Is Fsking the
 Place of the Crazy Quilts.

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 Place of the Crazy Quilts.
 Tissue paper flowers are the feminine craze now. The show-windows are re- splendent with tulips, roses, daisies, peoples and violets made out of tissue paper, and young ladies of society are devoting hours to acquiring the art of their manufacture. It is a pastime par ticularly interesting, and it is remarka- ble what beautiful floral effects are pro- duced with colored paper, little wire, little glue and pair of scissors. An enterprising manufacturing comf cey has taken advantage of the craze, and has put up in boxes an assortment of different colored tissue paper, with a small coil of fine wire and few pieces of very fine soft rubber pipe, to be used for stems. These boxes. together with a pamphlet of instructions, are sold at trifiing sum by the thousands. Young ladies, with no knowledge of the manu- facture of artificial flowers, it is said, can, with the contents of one of these boxes, and by the aid of the book of in- structions, produce the most natural do- mestic flowers with little practice.
 ''Tissue-paper parties have already become popular. The fashionable world always eagerly welcomes any new en- tertainment which promises 10 be both novel and amusing, and it has taken hold of the tissue-paper mania. At these quiet little assemblages not only striking effects in flowers are pro- duced, but dresses are manufactured. Paper used at these affairs is imported, and comes in @ most marvellous variety and beauty of color Some of the gar ments of this f1imsy material are very beautiful. As can be easily imagined, the variety of colors, shades and tints is al- most inexhaustible, and every kind of combination and effect is possible. In the matter of trimming there IS scope for all sorts of limitations flowers, fringes, rufs. and hundred and one furbelows which women only under stand the name or the object of. There must be a great deal of satisfaction in a lady making such dress and then viewing it with rapturous feminine de- light, but this satisfaction can not, of course, be compared to that of the master of the house, who finds his re- lief in the fact that it costs but few cents.
 But it is the manufacture of flowers from this imported paper which has turned the young feminine mind upside down. In the wonderful craze for fancy work these paper flowers are much used for ornamentation. Roses and poppies, made much larger than nature, are used fer decorating lace curtains, pillow cases, backs of plush sofas and chairs, and easels. A very popular feature of the parlor is a sket of these flowers. The basket itsesSs made of dark-colored paper, without a foundation, simply in a ring, and the maserial is placed in folds. The flowers themselves are then laid on paper ss1avings, which fill out and IooP the basket in shape. The han dle, of wire, is covered with paper, with sweet peas or other climbing flowers twined around it. Such basket of flowers can scarcely be distinguished from wax. A skillful hand, however, is needed in their manufacture.
 ''The prettiest thing have seen made of tissue paper is a mat representing water lily, said young lady the other day, while in conversation with the writer upon the subject. 1.-The perfect form of the beautiful flower was repro duced It was made upon a foundation of a very large leaf, and upon this leaves in graduated sizes are placed, the lower ones being of dark green. the cen- ter of very pale yellow, while the inter- mediate leaves were in graduated tints. .I |, -offa was produced. h-N. Y. Sun.