The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
PHOTOGRAPHIC NHEDLEwORK
Charming Luncheon and Tea Sets
Decorated With Photos.

Decorated With Photos.
The latest application of photography
is combining it with needlework and
lace for table decoration. Linen and
silk table covers, table centers and dol
lies can be most artistically illustrated
One particularly effective set is made
of JaDanese linen. The table cover Is
fringed, with a photograph of a land
scape in each Of the four corners
Around these corner illustrations is
worked delicate colored autumn ilow-
ers. Just the kind one finds by the
country roadsides during October, for
the set is made as a memento of an an-
tumn trip aWfeel, and the illustrations
all picture some pretty bit of landscape,
episode or companion seen during the
journey
The doilies all have in their centers a
photograph several sizes smaller than
those on the lunch cloth. These nc
lures, in each of which the wheels and
their owners are always present. are
framed by a Dresden pattern of the
same wild flowers seen on the cloth.
The center piece, which is round, has a
series of miniature pictures in which a
history of the entire trip is illustrated
These photographs are also framed by
wreaths of tiny blossoms, and have
very nuch-th effect of series of me-
dallions.
The maker of this dainty set, who, it
is needless to say, is a devotee to both
the wheel and the camera, as well rs an
expert needle woman, gives the follow
ing advice and suggestions about the
work:
THE first care must be to select bold,
sharply cut negatives for the illustra-
tons. Then proceed to sensitize the
fabric-linen, we win say. First make
certain that the material contains no
dressing or any ingredient that may
cause stains This is easily done By
washing Il well in clean water. The
best medium for sailing Of fabrics is
arrowroot. If directions are carefully
carried out failures with it should
never occur.
Make a sailing solution by taking n
teaspoon of arrowroot, and adding to
it sufficient quantity of water to make
a smooth paste. Now put an enamel
kettle or other vessel from which there
is no possibility of a stain, a quart or
more of clear water Into this dissolve
sufficient fine table salt to make the
water slightly salt to the taste. When
this comes to a boil, pour into it the
aFrowroot paste, stirring all the while,
until a thin gelatinouS fluid IS formed.
Then set aside to cool.
When cold, the linen, having been
well washed in clear water, is immersed
in the arroWroot solution. After oeing
thoroughly saturated it is taken ont
and dried before a quick fire, 1t should
dry slightly stiff. When dry sensitize
by immersing it ma. bath. composed Of
$50 grains of nitrate of silver dissolved
in three ounces of clear cold water
and rendered slightly acid by inserting
a glass rod dipped in nitric acid. In q
perfectly clear earthen dish place as
much Of this nitrate of silver solution
as Will thoroughly saturate the dry
sailed cloth. A few seconds immersion
is sufficient. Then hold the cloth before
the brisk fire and dry it second time.
Again it should dry slightly stiff and
without stains.
Now brilliant prints can be pulled
without trouble. Such operations may
be done in a duly lighted room instead
OF 3 dark one, crowded the cloth is
dried off rapidly before q brisk fire. 1t
is not a difficult operation in any sense
ana a perlod of 10 minutes IS sufficient
to prepare a piece of cloth and have it
in the printing frame. 1t is best always
to have the cloth freshly prepared.
In printing, the image should ap-
pear q good deal darker before it is
taken from the printing frame IMAM it
is intended to appear when finished,
for the density will be lost in the ton
ing and fixing processes. After the
printing is finished the cloth is washed
slightly in three changes of water IS
ra9idly as possible, to remove the free
silver The print is then immersed in
an ordinary acetate of gold toning
BATH The image will tone rapidly TO a
deep purple black, and after slight
washing is fixed in weak hypo in the
usual manner. The result is a delight
full photograph on cloth of good ricn
brownish black color, and which, when
ironed out and finished, presents a
charming appearance.
LAFAYETTE M'LAWS.