Iron County register., 1886-06-10
TISSUE FLOWER PARTIES.
The Beautiful Art Which Is Taking the
Place of the Crazy Quilts.

The Beautiful Art Which Is Taking the
Place of the Crazy Quilts.
Tissue paper flowers are the feminine
craze now The show-windows are re-
splendent with tulips. roses, daisies,
paper, and young ladies of society are
devoting hours to acquiring the art OF
their manufacture. 1t is pastime par
ticularly interesting, and it is remarka-
BILE what beautiful floral effects are pro-
duced with colored paper, little wire,
little glue and pair of scissors. An
enterprising manufacturing company
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
trifling 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 bv 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 to 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 a most marvellous variety
and beauty of color. Some of the gar
ments of this fiimsy 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, ruffs. 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 a 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
for decorating lace curtains. pillow
cases, backs of plush sofas and chairs,
and easels. A very popular feature Of
the parlor is basket of these flowers.
The basket itself is made of dark-colored
paper, without a foundation, simply in
a ring. and the material is placed in
folds. The flowers themselves are then
laid on paper shavings, which fill out
and keep the basket in shape. The ham
die, 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.
1.-The prettiest thing | have seen made
of tissue paper is mat representing a
water lily said a 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 1t was made upon foundation
of a very large leaf, and upon this
leaves in graduated sizes are placed, the
lower ones being of dark green. the GEN.
ter of very pale yellow, while the inter-
mediate leaves were in graduated tints.
You have no idea what happy effect
was produced. ~. Y. Sun.