. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. FIG. floss. The colors may be nearly or quite true to natur* or they maybe slightly conventionalized. Pale gold for the crescent, thr^e shades olivegreen and three shades pale pink for the floral design around the crescent,and a combination of blue and gold, pink and brown and green and orangeharmoniously blended, for the butterflies, will produce an artistic orange should be used very sparingly, and may be omitted altogetherif desired, though a very little of it judiciously used, gives character to theshading. lOO DAINTY WORK FO
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. FIG. floss. The colors may be nearly or quite true to natur* or they maybe slightly conventionalized. Pale gold for the crescent, thr^e shades olivegreen and three shades pale pink for the floral design around the crescent,and a combination of blue and gold, pink and brown and green and orangeharmoniously blended, for the butterflies, will produce an artistic orange should be used very sparingly, and may be omitted altogetherif desired, though a very little of it judiciously used, gives character to theshading. lOO DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND BOOK COVERS. For many centuries, ladies of rank and wealth have delighted to workwith rare and dainty device covers for missals, prayer books and choicevolumes. Many of these covers have been preserved as treasures of 3^ decorative art. In the Eighteenth cen-tury the art of decorating covers fell intodisuse; but it has again been revived,not indeed on so elaborate a scale asformerly, as the covers embroidered inthese degenerate days are intended forpractical use rather than as specimens ofelaborate workmanship, many of thempjQ^ g2, being used to cover paper-covered novels and account books, and also books whose handsome and expensive bindingsneed protection. Figures 92 and 93 show two designs which are at oncesimple and pretty. Figure 92 is a Dresden design worked out with pinkand white filo floss on white duck orcanvas, while figure 93 shows a con-ventional design treated with brownrope linens on white canvas in outlinestitch and French knots. There aremany other designs that can be
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