. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 131.—Butterflies and Moths inapplique. The materials usedmight be figured ones. i88 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. ingly effective for the time it takes, and there is a solidity andstrength about it that adapts it for covering large surfaces atthe smallest expenditure of time. Sprigs, animal or otherforms powdered over hangings cut out of nice materialsand appliqued will give a most excellent effect, and far fromcheap-looking. The needlework should play about the ap-pliques so that there is a union between the two. One wayof covering wall-hangings would be to work the
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 131.—Butterflies and Moths inapplique. The materials usedmight be figured ones. i88 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. ingly effective for the time it takes, and there is a solidity andstrength about it that adapts it for covering large surfaces atthe smallest expenditure of time. Sprigs, animal or otherforms powdered over hangings cut out of nice materialsand appliqued will give a most excellent effect, and far fromcheap-looking. The needlework should play about the ap-pliques so that there is a union between the two. One wayof covering wall-hangings would be to work the plan, ,the lines dividing the surface into spaces, and then appliqueanimal forms in the spaces. Such well-known plants as areadapted in Nos. 126 and 127 would make good appliques. No. 132.—Interlaced Strip Border of Keltic design. for powdering over a large surface, and there would be nonecessity to do more than distribute such forms over thesurface. Cutting forms for appliques compels one to besevere and ornamental as one has the limitations of oneswork forced upon one. The use of figured silks anddamask patterns gives good results, and should be the greens for leaves might be cut out of a silkdamask. In a panel at the Paris Exhibition, exhibited in theFinnish Court, the background was composed of variouscoloured silks, so cut out as to give the effect of water, hills. NEEDLEWORK. and sky. Upon this a tree, the mountain ash with berries,was appliqued and worked, and the effect of the whole wasboth original and artistic. In a screen, too, at the WomansExhibition, worked byFrau Helen Reutsch,great originality wasshown. The flower wasthe larkspur, or delphi-nium, no easy one torender, but by massingthe racemes of flowers,and simplifying them sothat t
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