The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-11

colors look soft like wool. and at the same
time elastic. Without this treatment
you could blow the colors off the canvas.
If painted direct the coiOrs would shine
like oil and all the effects of imitation
would be gone. Only the finest trans
parent water cOlors in tubes should be used.
For yellow and all shades worked from yell
low by mixing with other colors we use
Spanish saffron, which can be cooked easily.
This saffron extract we mix all around.
For a lighter yellow we use gumme-gutte,
plant extract but white paint is never
usei. The high lights are given by the
canvas.
"The way to paint tapestry is similar to
The manner of painting aQuarelies. We
leave the high lights alone and then work
up gradually 30 the darkest colors. 1t is
not ike oil, where you can put on your
color at once; you must build up your
tapestry from the lights. adding fine per-
pendicular stripes to give it character.
These hints should be remem bered to reach
the desired effects. In old Gobelin
tapestries the high lights were woven in
silk. everything else in wool, so that the
bright spots shine ard give different b es
as you walk around the picture. To
imitate that we use a whitish mixture of
honey and gum. The honey gives a soft
ness and gloss and when this mixture is
put on carefully in perpend cular stripes
the illusion is complete. You cannot get
such dark shadows as when using
oil, so to over ONE this difficulty
shellac is blown through pipe upon
the deep shades and the hue is intensified
to remarkable degree. There is
no green paint transparent enough,
so 1t is necessary to pain first in blue
wherever green is wanted. Then we put
yellow over it, and the blue shines through
in green lines accordingly rs the two col
ors are combined. All this requires study
and study, full knowledge ef the tech.
nique, for without that no matter how
clever and talented an artist may be he
cannot make his picture look like
weaving"
In rely to question If he would exhibit.
his tapestries at the MidwiBter Fair Mr..
Busch made answer: Where's the use?
People would not understand them. In
the East it would be all right, though there
few ladies-very few-here in San Fran
cisco who understand CODE lin tape stry-
Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Trumbo, Mrs Lough-
borough and also Mrs. Hayes Chin
owitch of San Jose. There are others, no
doubt. but Ishave not met them.
Out here people have little or no idea
Of what craze exists in the old country
for Gobelin tapestries. In Germany YOU
will find them in houses from top 10 bot
iom--in panels of wanscotiug, in freezes.
ceilings. on walls, as portieres. for pillows.
upholstery. panels OF antique high-back
uiuiNe-chdits' No the c0lorS once prop
erly put on never rub out; they have gone
through the cloth, and these painted tapes
tries are just as durable as woven ones.
Again. tapestries are fashionable as
screens and around ordinary drapery.
It's strange how they have been steadily
winning public favor all over the world in
the past lew years. Painting tapestry is
very appropriate and in fact agreeable ac-
compiishment for young ladies, inasmuch
as tapestries are useful for small articles
pillows, baskets. easels, in fact, every where