The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
New Fancy-WOrk.

A style of fancy-work now greatly af-
fected by English women is broderie
russo done by the Hochstadter system.
The articles most often selected for this
decoration are large pieces, such as
tea clotf s, work aprons, housekeepers'
aprons, table centers, stand and buffet
covers, and chair backs, which last are
a modern improve ment upon The an
Gent and extremely obnoxious tides,
which there were none to love and very
few to praise.
The pattern fer this work is stamped
upon sateen, n omie- cloth, and oth er
cotton or linen materials. The stitch
used is the ordinary cross stitch, which
practice enables the worker, following
the lines stamped as if for outline-work,
to execute evenly without the aid of the
canvas, which is used for the similar
but finer Berlir-work The cross stitch
in this case is lfrge, being one-sixth The
height of the initial letter H on the
front page of Hdrper's Bozar. The de-
signs are distinctively Russian, and
most of them geomeirical. The ma
terial used for wol king is soft, heavy
cotton, in either red, blue, tan or BILE ok.
Some of the pieces are in wide stripe S
OF cream and tan, and worked with red.
A tall screen covered with dark red
monte cloth worked in black and tan.
now on exhibition in London shop
window, is very striking and effective
example of this style of work. Such
articles as need finish Ere edged with
real Russian lace. In he case of tea
cloth an insertion of the same lace is
added, the strip of linen which sep
arates it from the edeing being orna-
mented with cross stitch.
Any one who, by right of descent or
otherwise, possesses some of the quaint
bead bags of our grandmother's DAYS.
will be able to give them prominent
positions upon the shelf or table BY
converting them into photograph cases.
The bag must be ripped from the clasp,
and on opening the well-c concealed
seam at one side and upon the bottom,
it will be found to he a straight strip of
beadwork of the proper size and shape
to fit the outside of one of the book
shaped frames which hold two pictures.
For fifty cents one can be bought with
cover of India silk, or the shape can
be cut from paste board and covered
with any material. The beadwork strip.
which is closely made of tiny beads,
with generally a snowy floral or ar
chitectural pattern on a white bead
ground, is put over the outside and
secured to the edge, where, to conceal
the stitches, border of beads several
sizes larger than those used in the
original work is put on with the needle.
The mode of construction is to first
sew on row of beads. one at time,
as closely set as possible. Then make
a second row by passing the needle and
thread through the first bead of the
first row, then through fresh bead,
then through the second bead of the
under row, then again through fresh
bead, and so on. The result is sort
of pearl edge. If preferred, the case
can be made without stiffening, and
with no oval mats in the interior, but
softly wadded and satin lined, and tied
with ribbon strings. Several pictures
can be laid within The covers. 1t would
not be difficult to make the bead bag
into cook cover. 1t would be espe-
cially pretty and appropriate as the
covering of some dainty cole ction of
the songs or poems which were dear to
the hearts of the public in the old days
when our ancestresses were recklessly
squandering time and still more pre-
cious eyesight in threading the inf
Intestinal beads.-Harper' Bazar.