And when your work is done it will be _original_, and, as such, more
valuable and interesting than any shop model, however beautiful in
itself, can possibly be.
[Illustration: ANOTHER SCRAP-BAG (SILVER PERFORATED PAPER AND
CROCHET-WORK).]
[Illustration: PAPER-CUTTER (NOVELTIES IN FERN-WORK).]
ORIENTAL WORK.
Very gay and quaint effects are produced with this work, which is an
adaptation of the well-known Eastern embroideries. Its ground-work
is plain cashmere or flannel, red, black or blue, on which small
fantastically shaped figures in variously colored velvets or cashmeres
are laid and button-holed down with floss silks. All sorts of forms
are employed for these figures--stars, crescents, circles, trefoils,
shields, palm-leaves, griffins, imps; and little wheels and comets
in feather-stitch and cat-stitch are inserted between, to add to the
oddity of the whole. These forms can be bought at a low price in
almost any fancy shop. A good deal of ingenuity and taste can be shown
in arranging and blending the figures richly and brilliantly, without
making them too bright and glaring.
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