. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. size smaller than thefirst. This gives amore raised androunded effect to thework. In making ban-ners, a piece of stoutholland should betacked in a frame, andthe entire designshould be stampedupon it and same designshould also bestamped upon thesilk composing thebanner, and this ^^^ ^4o. should be stretched in another frame. As fast as one part of the orna-mentation is finished it maybe cut out of the holland and tacked into position upon the banner and finished with a couched silk or gold cord. The mottoes upon banners look best made of bullion
. Fancy work for pleasure and profit. size smaller than thefirst. This gives amore raised androunded effect to thework. In making ban-ners, a piece of stoutholland should betacked in a frame, andthe entire designshould be stampedupon it and same designshould also bestamped upon thesilk composing thebanner, and this ^^^ ^4o. should be stretched in another frame. As fast as one part of the orna-mentation is finished it maybe cut out of the holland and tacked into position upon the banner and finished with a couched silk or gold cord. The mottoes upon banners look best made of bullion over a cardboardfoundation. Though amateurs sometimes embroider them with gold threadupon the silk, the effect is not nearly as rich and heavy. There are severalkinds and sizes of bullion, and introducing a variety into the same piece ofwork relieves the monotony of a design worked in one color. The trade terms for the different patterns of bullion are, checked,smooth, spiral, and they come in bright gold and burnished gold. The. 136 DAINTY WORK FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. same is true of silver bullion, which is made in the same patterns as thegold. Where the cardboard foundation is pasted directly on to the silk orvelvet foundation, Chases liquid glue is used for the purpose. In finishing banners, an interlining of crinoline should be put in; thesides should be finished with a flat band of gold lace and the ends withheavy bullion fringe. When hung on a pole, the top should be finishedwith gold cord and heavy bullion tassels. Figure 140 shows an Easter ban-ner. It consists of three banners suspended from a standard. The founda-tion of the three banners is white corded silk. The cross on the center banner is made of blue silk filled inwith basket couching of gold lily decorating the cross is madeof silver bullion worked over card-board. The cross and circle on thesmall banner to the left is made ofcouchings of three varieties of goldbullion, checked, smooth and sp
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