The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24
WORK FOR SUMNER DAYS
TRIPLES TO BE CoNCoCTED IN
SHADE OF PIAZZA VINES.
How to Make Bamboo and Bead Por-

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NEW YORK. June cav nat will you do
on co ,tage veranda or hotel piazza on those
delicious gray-green summer days when the
rain it rains Away! While the reader Of
the party is swinging to and fro in her low
rocker, giving you the initial chapters Of
that latest study Of the marriage question,
Florence Finch-Kelly's Frances, a Story
for Men and Women" suppose you expert
ment with the making of one of those
japanese bamboo and bead portieres, which
are the most approved summer hangings.
You can buy one If it suits you better. but
the stores do not furnish, for a sum within
the reach of the ordinary sweet woman
who keeps her house and cares for her ba-
bies, any such choice of colors, designs and
dimensions as the bright home genius, with
small expense Of time and less OF money,
has at her own command.
Flshlines are cheap at the seaside, and
fishlines. glass beads and bamboo cut into
short lengths are all the materials you
need. Measure the opening of your door
way, hive slender strip of pine TO fit it set
with small hooks from which your cords
will depend; then when the needle is a bur-
den and the delicate colors of embroidery
fade and soil in perspiring fingers select
cool green or clear glass beads and string.
Out on Long Island there is a country
cottage owned by young woman. All
winter she paints in a little room up in the
top of a swell apartment house not far from
Gramercy PARK, all summer she vib -ates to
and fro in and out of another little room
which is cut off from the world of green
ness and beauty by Roman scarf bamboo
and bead portiere. Oiled pine is her wood
work, terra Gotta and crea n her walls and
ceiling, Indian red and olive the bead,
which are strung so as to form broad
and narrow color bands across her
curtain. She has used big beads and
large short pieces of bamboo, and wrought
in her monogra in the middle at the top.
Each strand Of the portiere is Terminated
by tiny bell, so that her conings and
goings are heralded By m steal tinkle
Much easier than this, as requiring no
care in the placing of the beads on the cord,
is a curtain made by stringing bamboo
and beads alternately, using only green
beads, or employing dozen different but
harmonious colors. The more bea Is the
more effective the curtain, and some of
the handsomest and simplest use, without
regard to color, six or eight or a dozen har-
lequin beads between every two strips of
bamboo. To initiate the Chinese and Jap
anese designs of birds and beasts ard flowers
is almost too difficult for hot weather, in
volving nice calculation as to the position
of each bead.
Some days ago l saw unique portiere
in a seaside cottage. The room itself was
as far from commonplace as may be mag
ined. The ceiling was tinted a pale sea
green, the side walls taking a deeper tone.
FiShnets were draOed from friezs to floor
ing and in the mesheS were tangled many
colored fish, bjught at japanese shops,
Holsters and the long ribbons of sea MOSES.
Oars we're crossed above the windows and
doors. In the large doorway was first a
curtain, hung straight, of small fishcord
woven into a network with the long net
ting needle. Many visits TO the beach had
resulted in a large collection of scalIop and
jingle shells, gold and silver shells the lit
tie people call them, aud these had been
perforated and knotted in. Outside the
Melted curtain hung a pair of portieres
made of coffee sacking and decorated with
rings of green plush and fringes of shells.
The effect was wonderfully picturesque
and had been obtained at small trouble and
time.
| number among my acquaintance a
half dozen young teachers in a New York
private school who have spent the weeks of
their warm weather vacation for two or
tih05 YEARS pdob CduupluR III q building
which in its former estate was woodshed
on the picturesque Massachusetts coast.
near Gloucester. Last year the main room
of this festive es Adjustment had its side
walls, which are not plastered, covered
with burlaps laid on fiat and fastened by a
strip of oiled pine which answered for pic
ture molding. Autumn leaves stenciled on
In metallic colors gave charac .er to the
frieze. All through the spring months
these young women have been busy with
decorative work for the 1889 campaign. An
impo tanJ feature of the room this summer
is to be portiere made of hempen rope
just out of the store. This article of furnl-
ture was manufactured, so TO speak, in DO
sition. A pole was adjusted at the proper
hight and the rope tied over it. The cords
were then knetted to form a diamond pat
termed network, making band perhaps l6
inches deep across the curtain. A quantity
of perforated wooden balls had been turned
out by a carpenter, and these were next
strung on the cords three or four deep, as il
the making of the bamboo portiere Below
the balls came more knotting AID then more
balls, and so on to the floor When com
pleted the balls were gwen a cat of gold
paint and the cords were painted a copper =
bronze. Two of the holiday makers are
now at work ON knotted Irvine window cur
tains Of the same sort, with smaller balls to
The curtains are to be all of
the gold color, believe.
A good deal of woman's summer leisure
itself with screens. They shut off
draughts from open windows and are in
in cutting off awkward corners in
hastily furnished summer cottages. For
July and August use there are few mate
rails better than rough burlaps If the de-
sign is to be painted somewhat sketchlly.
For summer work to be joyed in win err
DAYS we have now revival of the tapestry
screen work so popular in the eighteen Ii
century. The p city, graceful, affected
Vatican and Boucher designs will this
summer occupy the brushes of skilled anna
teur artists, who delight in the lignt-hearted
pink and white gayety of Marie Antoin-
ette's era For women who embroider.
linen, silk, sateen, satin sheeting and bolton
cloth are the favored screen materials. and
much more artistic work is required tina
served to make 'show piece" formerly.
has reached as high a plane
in decorative art in this country as painting.
and fancy work with no fancy in it is best
hidden in attlcs or left undOne Needle
women with the requisite skill
turn for subjects to lilies, goldenrod
and the brilliant cardinal flower, fleur de
lis and punches Of all posies rich in color.
These are worked not in outline, as for
cushions, but ia solid embroidery, and it is
possible to show great skill in the choice of
stitches and in the blending of colors. 1t
is really required to transfer the painters
met od to textiles. A beautiful design
shows a foundation of cream white silk
canvas, on which is worked mountain laurel
in soft bright plnks, shading into the lighter
tones. The leaves are wrought out in nat