Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-20
Efficient
Housekeeping.
BY Laura A. kirkman.
HAVE YOU TRIED

A reader of this column has asked
me to publish an article on tie dye
ing" This is a most interesting art.
Ii consists in placing a marble in the
piece OF cloth to be dyed, and tying
the marble up in the cloth by winding
string around beneath Gas you would
tie ball of blueing up in piece Of
muslin, to blue clothes in laundering,
then dveing the cloth in the ordinary
way. After removing it from the dye,
according to the directions, the string
is united to release the marble, then
the cloth is hung on the clothesline to
dry. The result is piece of dyed
cloth with a white ring design in it.
For the part of the cloth which was
under the thick binding of string was
not reached by the dye-and this leaves
awhile ring.
OF course the above directions are
for the simplest form of tie-dyeing.
There are many ways of varying the
pattern. One way is to have the string
which binds the cloth (beneath the
marble) wound rather loosely so that
dye will reach some parts of the cloth
beneath, resulting in a notified or
streaked appearance of the white circle.
Another way is to tie it in two distinct
places beneath the marble-the two
tyings quite far part; this makes two
white circles instead Of one.
To make a design on square cloth
with FIVE white circles on it in different
places lone in the middle and one in each
corner, tie q marble in the middle
and one in each of the four corners OF
the cloth. Thi Is decoration makes pretty
tablecloth fof living room or library.
To make squares instead OF circles,
on the cloth, follow these directions:
measure a perfect square on the cloth
with ruler marking this square on
the goods with pencil dots. Then take
needle and thread and gather the cloth,
running the stitches around the four
sides of the square. Do not put q
marble-or ANYTHING else-inside the
cloth, this time, before tying. Simply
begin tying the cloth, as you did for
the circle design, but making sure that
YOU tie it exactly on the gathering
thread. In this way you have a little
empty bunch of the material sticking
up when you have finished winding the
string heavily about the cloth, beneath
it. Now dye the entire cloth, IN the
usual way, rinse, unite lne slIihS anu
hang the cloth ON the line. The result
is dyed cloth with white square IN
il. You can have as many of these
squares in the cloth as you wish-by
gathering other parts OF 1t into squares
and tying beneath the gathering threads.
But perhaps the prettlest decoration
of all, in tied nd dyed work, is the
wavy design which is used at either
end of table runner 1t is made as
follows: Take one end Of the runner
and crease it into pleats, each pleat
being one-half inch wide Just as 9
child would fold piece of paper te
make fan. When you get the entire
end creased, lengthwise Of the mat
and not quite at the end of the run
ner. tie string over and over this bunch
of pleats so as to hold all the pleats to-
gether. Now do the same thing at the
other end. When you finish trying both
ends, Your table runner will be wide
and fat in the center, but tied small at
each end. 1t is then dyed. rinsed, the
strings united, and the cloth dried.
Observation-Disclosures Picking
Recipes.