Hung on the gas-fixture beside a
looking-glass, or on a hook above the work-table, they will be found
just the things to catch odds and ends, such as hair, burnt matches,
ravelings and shreds of cloth, which are always accumulating, and for
which many city bedrooms afford no receptacle. The materials needed
are three-quarters of a yard of pale-brown Turkish toweling, six
yards of red worsted braid, four steel rings (to hold the strings),
one-eighth of a yard each of blue, white, and scarlet cashmere, a
skein each of blue, red, green, yellow, and black worsted, and a small
red tassel in chenille or silk.
Cut four pieces of the toweling, twelve inches long and six and a half
wide, and shape them according to diagram.
Bind each around with braid. Cut out a shape in cashmere of the three
colors laid one over the other, and button-hole it on with worsted,
contrasting the shades in as gay and marked a manner as possible.
In the design given, A is white cashmere, B red, and C blue. A is
button-holed with green, B with black, and C with yellow.
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