Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-27
NEEDLEWORK HAS
ALWAYS BEEN A FEATURE.
PRETTY BOUQUET RIBBONS
Linens for Bedrooms and Dining
Room Are as Serviceabe as They
Are Pretty-Doilies and Like
Things all Come in This Play
Many Others.

lavishly on bridal garments and on
fabric intended as gifts for bride.
Rather than a custom, however, such
occasions as weddings may be con-
Sidered opportunities for needlework
which are eagerly improved. Some Of
the most exquisite of the antique laces
are wedding wells, and many Of the
famous lace patterns were designed
under the inspiration of wedding
day.
The story of the origin of guipure
lace is apropos. A sailor returning to
Venice brought to his betrothed some
Of the exquisite spun glass coral from
the Indian waters and told her it was
the mermaid's lace When he was
away on his next voyage the maiden
wrought veil with her needle after
the pattern of the coral, and wore on
her Wedding-day the first guipure
lace. Often the crest of a new family
and designs which afterward have be-
come traditional were originated for
the bridal linen or lingerie These
designs are priced in modern work, es-
pecially by the workers in Colonial
embroidery who have instituted what
is fast becoming school of needle
work at Deerf1eld, Mass.
An embroidered wedding gown is a
luxury beyond the reach of most
brides, unless they themselves can do
the work; therefore, suggestions for
this particular use of embroidery need
not be very full. Embroidery on cos
tunes is not what it might be if fash
ions lasted longer. Since in the days
Of LIE Grand Monarch embroidered
cinclude either that styles did not
change every three months, or, if they
did, the court must needs follow the
king, who, by the way, was a great
lover of laces and textiles of all sorts.
Only embroidery which is alto
gether conventional is suitable on we'd
ding apparel There is no more beauti
full way to adorn white satin or silk
wedding gown than by applique cut
from mousseline de sole. The design
a conventional one, or sprays of orange
blossoms or roses should be stamped
in the mousseline de sole. The design
sharp scissors and applied to the
breadths of silk with a loosely twisted
COUGHING cord. Afterward it should be
touched out with stitches of flo. This
will be dainty and not eXpensive-cer-
tainly not as sumptuous, however, as
the wedding gown or the present
czarina, which was completely covered
with needlework not less valuable than
the gems which were worked into the
embroidery.
For making linens and lingerie the
French laid-work is always the SER
viceable method of work. It is some
what mechanical, but this is an adj
vantage rather than otherwise, when
the application is as much for use as
for ornament. A somewhat novel
method of making personal linen is
with the whole name in script. This
is exceedingly fine work, but not there
fore difficult, as it is quite as easy, in
deed easier, to work evenly line than
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1t is decidedly Partisan to work the
entire name on handkerchiefs, and, as
yet, new to us. Hemstitching must Of
necessity be considered with white
work, and for linens it is a particularly
dainty and simple enrichment AS
anybody can do this sort of needle
work, it is not an expensive gift to
make for bride half dozen tray
cloths or squares of soft round weave
linen with such a hem and perhaps q,
simple drawnWork border. These will
be so useful that it is quite probable,
when the bride is fully launched in
housekeeping, she will oftener feel
thankful to the giver of this simple
gift than to the friend who has pro-
vided the more elaborate linens which
are used only on state occasions.
Another pretty and simple bridal gift
is the embroidered bouquet ribbon.
This, since it is to be used at the
wedding itself, will be one of the most
suggestive of souvenirs. The ribbon
should be three inches wide and about
four yards long. On one end should
be embroidered the monogram of the
bride, on the other that of the groom.
Just below one monogram should be
the month in small letters, below the
other the date. The design and
method of working these letters may
be according to the workers fancy,
but the way which will probably be
most successful is over cartoons. Mark
the designs on stiff heavy paper and
cut them out very accurately within
the line; it is easy to eXaggerate the
width, so losing the outline. Apply
these cartoons to the ribbon, which
has first been pasted to framed linen
and embroider over them with white
twisted embroidery silk. They may
also be edged with Japanese gold. A
very important point to remember is to
place the letters well up on the ribbon
ends, so as to allow something more
than their depth in plain ribbon below
them. This end can be turned up over