The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-04
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DECORATIVE NOTES
Among the most popular English |
fanrv-work embroidered lace may be |
mentioned. White or cream-coiore6 |
furniture lace. with 3 raised pattern is
best Trace the pattern In tinsel and |
ambroider thickly in button-hole and
other fiat, fancy-stiehes everywhere ex-
cept on the tinsel and over the back
ground. Stamped velvet, on the con-
rary, 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-blue and
silver, scarlet and gold, etc.
Pillow lace does not find much favor
in London as an employment for ladies.
The cost of the thread. the expenditure
Of oversight, patience, and time render
il distasteful TO those who only require
s'ten minutes work. and ladies who
can afford the cost of the material could
afford to buy real lace 1t is only 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 unatfractive.
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. It is true that the
thread is dear $50 is all proper lace cot
toni and that it whips and cuts the tin
gers, but at the same time it 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. Is needles. For cuffs cast
on fifteen stitches; knit one plain row,
/ then 3 row putting bead up to every
/ stitch except the first and last; then a
| xiain row, and another with beads. Re-
| peat until the strip is long enough to
| slip over the hand; then knit one plain
| row and bind of. To knit the collar,
| cast on five stitches; knit first plain
| row with beads; In the third row make
| ono 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 cuffs, if properly made, have
/ AAOOAAAe5NNO
lets.
/ A new and exceedingly effective de
sign for a mantel lambrequin is com
posed of cone-fowers in their natura
Size worked on dark olive-green plush
A strip of the plush sixteen inches deel
and the length of the mantle-shelf ex
tends straight across the front. From
the bottom of this strip and extending
nearly to the top the cone-fiowers ar
, gracefully arranged, the leaves worke'
with fine chenille and the yellow petal
with two shades of ribbosene, the dark
! brown centers of the blossoms in knot
stitch with embroidery silk. Tassels c
, green ribbosene, with full. yellow head
finish the lower edge. A straight stri
of green plush is laid across the mantle
top and hangs down on each end
/ trffe lower than the embroidered piec
. across the front. These ends are line
/ | with yellow satin and trimmed on tn
8 bottom with the ribbosene tassels. Th
{ effect of the yellow cone-fiower and tn
, odd tassels is unusually rich, and form
: one OF the handsomest designs that
3 has been our pleasure to see this season
;, The Floral Cabinet.