The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-26
FOR THE SUMMER NEEDLE
EMBROIDERY FOR THE PIAZZA
UNDER TIE VINES.

Notions IN FANCY W ORR AOT a0sO Isl
pays-Da:ntv liable Linen and QUAINT
Old Stitches With Which 1t is Orns-
mensed- Cut Work, Drawn " ork
armed Work, and. Variety OF
French and German stitchings-
copyrighted 1881
NEW York. Aug 25.-The summer days
are long and fingers hy fast as tongues on
cottage veranda or MOTEL piazza. What
shall YOU makel There are pretty things
in numbers going this year. Fancy work,
fortunately for the fingers, has more fancy
in it than it had once upon a time.
What say you to linenl Embroidery on
linen is the coolest work for August hou S.
You are going to be critical of table linen
this fall You want as dainty stitchery or
drawn work as you can get; tray covers,
carving cloths, center cloths, doylies and
the like, from this time on. Last winter the
scarf of vivid plush or velvet and the
chat gil < hues OF colcred glass made your
d! uer table beautiful. TnlS winter you
will depend on fine linen.
Suppose that by ami by you mean To spread
table for some feStlvity in White and gold.
II Ncu have kept somc pieces OF grand
riofhe. ) tine China with gilt edges, SO much
tue better or you. Your Goth will be
white ana 10 fringe upon the edge If you
pease. FIR the middle Of the table you
want q su.arc Of dull, gold colorod linen
for your cnitf ornament. 1t is this which
invites YOU to some deiIcacv OF manipula-
ton TIE art neodiework counter will
supply you with piece say % or ~ inches
siIG e. IL should be tne but of some firm
II, - aAd may cost you from 80 to % cents
Il yarG You Viii finish tie mem, and You
love int, wltn a plain hemstltched torder,
ana Tor enumeration your fancy eau rove
froh! tne Old Italian cut WORK, which Gath
.rlne De AedIci learned in Florence, to the
drawn work which tried tie eyes Of Mary,
Queen Vi Scots, or bro.Gery In any NUN
be OF quaint German stitches.
suppose you and / settle upon a simple
pattern III drawn work for the ends or Tor
a border about the four sides. Then you
may dot corn flowers o. chicory blossoms or
all. pJsy that suits you over the middle of
yoQr G. t.. scat ering tue blooms literally
for l.chne,s Do not fill them in with Ken
silgtOn " ork as YOU might have done last
year. but outline them simply with white
linen cord. sewing this to the background
with gold colored Scotch linen floss.
4 more novel dinner table design would
reverse this color scheme, making the main
c.Cth dull gold linen and throwing a white
center ciotn over it. If YOU will expert
mont with this, try cut work for a border
IL J-c white tnat the gold may SHINE through
tle mesGes. Sketch a vlne-not too stln a
sp;ay-Rbout your cloth, or you may buy
l.. Il your fingers be not nInble, ready
skctcaed. Tne.. DottonhUle your pattern in
wlnte or yellow linen floss and cut out tie
design, crossing The interstices with floss
threads and leaving cobwebby tracery
For green dinner CT a red, you will need
the newly imported green OF red linens
combined in tie same way with white, and
for Due there Is a blue Irish
linen which takes embroidery very
eff-ctIYely. WiIh cloth oi tnis de-
scilpt.on you viii work TO complete an
outLU. Napkins and the doy!ies Tor finger
bowls and wine glasses to correspond. The
napkins must be invariably white and take
a DOrder Of neHsUItching. Initials are
worked on them in white linen floss, but q
newer idea i, u small flower spray of the
pattern used tor the center clOtn. The doy-
Les gre Of the finest linen you can compass,
without flaws III the threads, aud so sheer
a. ~ DE cobwcbs. They al o of tine color of
the center cloth. Drawn work is the pref
test olnamentation for them, embroidery in
wash silks in conventional designs coming
neat.
u ash silk is to be emphasized 1t is not
permissible TO use for Jaoie purposes any
L.Lterlal Which cannot slarA water Wash
aple silk reads IL the softer tints are beau
iifui On white linen. The real Scotch linen
Il Jss are, however, the main standby. The
dealers call them art threads and import
item IN the dull blues, pinlIs, creams and
Colds which are called for in needle.
work.
Ii the contrast of color implied in two
cloths does not suit you, the white table
cloth can be made very decorative A
border of cutwoTk can be planned
for and So placed as to come upon the table
when laid, showing the polished wood be-
meath. 1t will give the cloth weight and
stability. especially if the cutwork border
Is wide, to use rope linen floss Tor the out
lining. White upon white is the usual
cloice, but "a gold floss on white linen is liked
by many people.
Tea cloths allow more intricate ornamental
tion tnan any other variety of table linen A
yellow cloth may be embroidered with de-
R;hed flower sprays in white, well covering
rs surface. B.us linen with simple cut
work pattern outlined i'll white is effective.
torn napklls, carving cloths, ETC., follow
the rules already lac down.
For larger pieces OF summer work linen is
stl!l i'll the Held. Blue or brown denIum Or
butcner linen makes Il pretty summer pur-
there. blue denim poftiere recently made
showed large HJwIng hines Of Hnite ami
gray, InalflAga conventional design cUucued
Oh the surface with fiaX-cord. Al the bot
IIgnt side III broad hem, making border
III a iignIer shade OF cUIur. Bottom sheetiug
safe n, frlez. and awning cloth are good
pJrtiere materials and are alt worked with
linen fiosses this summer.
inc OId-laShlobea cross stitch has been
revived-perhsps because you and 1 and
AL OF Us have sUill Soue lurking Uende ness
Tor the DarDarItes that have been perpe-
t:ated III lt--tor one use lately. Square
m.shed luce has reappeared for bureau
covers ami for tldies--uuJ don't make "a tidy
unless Satan Is III the foreground with mis-
chef plainly cut out for your idle hands
On this lace odd Egyptian patterns, de-
signs from antique lace or from modern
iles-halld drawing, are executed with pink
and god flax thread in the cross stitch of
our youth. 1t has a halo from tine sampler
days about II, but truth compel, tine admis-
son that darned WORK or weaving of the
cJlored threads back and forth through the
meshes OF the lace III any stitch or a variety
oil stitches gives a Letter effect
Darned work IL the quaint patterns Of
good Queen Ammo has lost nothing of its
polu arity. 1t is quickly done and affords
room for originality. You may darn
regularly or irregularly, diagonally or hex
agUnally; so long as you darn with judg-
ment you can hardly darn amiSs.
Divan cushions are covered NOWADAYS
with a heavy twllled linen, ON VIII CT de-
sign has been painted III indel le tapestry
colors. The pattern is there outlined IN col
a. Il 80 L