Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-12
PRETTY SCRAP BASKET
ARTISTIC EFFECTS MADE BY
HOME WEAVERS.
Lotus Buds for Green Rooms and Mexi.
can Nuts for Dens Are Among
the New Designs.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star
The scrap basket is becoming each year
less of necessary evil in a well-appointed
room, and more Of very serviceable dec
Grafton. 1t is found this year in innumer-
able and unusually graceful shapes and in
the most effective of colorings.
These innovat tons have been brought
about largely in the effort to compete with
the fetching baskets which have been so
successfully made by the home basket
weaver-the girl who has much leisure time,
but enjoys working with her fingers. With
the aid of the naany-colored raff1a and
sweet grasses and some ingenuity she has
produced baskets Of graceful shapes and
attractive colorings. which up to this time
could not be bought in any store
The girl who has come back from her va
cation with a goodIy supply of birch bark
will be reminded Of its possibilities when
she sees the cone-shaped waste baskets,
which are showa In shops this fall. They
are made of a good, thick piece OF bark in
either the light brown or white tint. A cir
the cone by lacinss employing strips of the
bark. Sweet grass is feStooned around the
top and held in place by the bark strips.
On the bark is sketched or painted some
design suggestive of the woods or fields
such as bunch of thistles or cluster CT
pine cones.
The newest basket for the boudoir is one
which adds a charming touch of color and
brightness to a dull corner 1t is built of
shining split silk and comes in the most
pleasing and soft shades Of pink, blue, yell
low, lavender and red To re1eye the Sc
verify of the corrugated cylindrical shape
these are finished with big festoons Of wide
taffeta ribbons in tones shading from the
deeper tone of the basket to the merest
suggestion of the color. These graduated
tints in ribbons. one of the vogues of the
ha ohac in OF
| the larger shops Ribbons in contrasting
shades are also Elective.
Be Produced in Straw.
The tall earthenware Japanese vases.
which have proved a most convenient re-
ceptacle for odds and ends. have been sue
cessfully reproduced in straw with inter-
weavings Of color to match the room for
which they are intended. In fact. all forms
of jardinieres have their counterpart in
Stlaw and raffia.
Another popular and decorative design is
full-blown tulip in the reds and yellows
of the natural flower A lotus flower
green straw and the graceful tapering pet
ais are tipped with gold. Heart-shaped
baskets done in white and gold are new
and dainty.
The dark brown pouches of the Mexican
nut, which are not unlike a toboggan cap
In shape. are being utilized both in their
natural form and cut into straps for weay-
ing. The pouches are very pliable, and can
be put together in the form of any of the
stately flowers.
Shapely jardinieres of Russian hammered
brass. both in their simplest from and ella b.
orately decorated with lions heads and big
handles, make very handsome receivers for
waste paper and scraps.
Baskets are also covered with tapestry
to match the side walls. or with tina rich
tapestries, showing Marie Antoinette
scenes. which are employed In such abund-
ance this fall.