The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-07-01
FLOWERS.
This Beautiful Art Which Is Taking the
Place of the Crazy Quilt.

Tissrle-paper flowers are the feminine
craze now The show windows are re-
splendent with tulips, roses. dahlias,
peoples and violets made out of tissue
paper, and young ladies of society are
devoting hours acquiring the ART of
their manufacture. 1t is a pastime pc
culiarly 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
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
domestic flowers with a little practice.
Tissue paper parties" have already
become popular. The fashionable
world always eagerly welcomes any new
entertainment which promises to be
both novel and amusing and it has
taken hold of the tissue-paper mania.
AT these quiet little assemblages not on
" striking effects in flowers are pro-
duced, but dresses are manufactured.
The paper used at these affairs are i'm
ported, and comes in a most marvellous
variety and beauty Of color. Some of
the garments made out of this himsy
material are exceedingly beautiful.
As can be easily imagined, the variety
of colors, shades and tints is almost in
exhaustible, and every kind of combi-
nation and effect is possible. In the
matter of trimming there is scope for
all sorts OF mitations-tiowerS, fringes,
ruffs and a hundred and one furbelows
which women only understand the
name or the object of There must be
a great deal of satisfaction in lady
making such a dress and then viewing
it with rapturous feminine delight, but
this satisfaction can not, of course, be
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 the feminine mind upside down.
In the wonderful craze for fancy work
these paper flowers are much used for
enumeration. RoSies and peoples,
made much larger than nature, are
used for decorating lace curtains, pill
low eases, backs of plush sofas and
chairs, and easels. A very popular
feature of the parlor is a basket of these
flowers. The basket itself is made of
dark-colored paper, without founda-
ton, simply in ring, and the material
is placed in folds. The flowers them
selves are then laid on paper shavings,
which fill out and keep the basket in
shape.
The handle, of wire, is covered with
paper, with sweet peas or other climb
ing flowers twined around it. Such a
basket of flowers can hardly be dis
tinguished from wax. A skillful hand.
however, is needed in their manufacture.
The prettiest thing have seen made
of tissue paper is a mat representing a
water lily" said a young lady the other
day, while in conversation with the
writer upon the subject. THE perfect
form OF the beautiful flower was repro
duced 1t was made upon foundation
of very large leaf and upon this leaves
in graduated sizes are placed, the lower
ones being of dark green. the center of
very pale yellow, while the intermediate
leaves were in graduated tints. You
have no idea what happy effect was
produced. IN 7. San.