Handicrafts in the home . s fade it is wiser to putsuch beautiful ornamentation on the undyedburlap. A good quality must be chosen,and one without dressing. Another excellentmaterial to use is monks cloth, which is nowmade in America, and retails at thirty-fivecents. Until lately this decorative materialcould only be bought among the importedmaterials, and cost $ a yard, but it was50 inches wide, while the domestic monkscloth is only 36 inches. The material can beobtained in a good range of colours. At first it is a little difficult to see how thebeads are threaded, but when the idea is on
Handicrafts in the home . s fade it is wiser to putsuch beautiful ornamentation on the undyedburlap. A good quality must be chosen,and one without dressing. Another excellentmaterial to use is monks cloth, which is nowmade in America, and retails at thirty-fivecents. Until lately this decorative materialcould only be bought among the importedmaterials, and cost $ a yard, but it was50 inches wide, while the domestic monkscloth is only 36 inches. The material can beobtained in a good range of colours. At first it is a little difficult to see how thebeads are threaded, but when the idea is oncegrasped it is the easiest and pleasantest kindof work to do. The cost is very slight, as thecheap glass beads sold for kindergarten workcan be used, unless real Venetian beads inbeautiful soft colours can beobtained. Theonlytool required is a long thin darning-needle. The process is extremely simple. Thecurtain is made in this manner. Begin atthe top, below the 3 - inch hem. Drawthe threads for an inch, after first out-. CURTAIN OF BEADED DRAWN WORK he h£\\- p^cu£ --<X\- BEADED DRAWN WORK 173 lining them at the selvage. The ravelledstrands of linen can be used for sewing onthe beads. Thread a darning-needle with oneof the strands, and fasten it with one or twostitches to the lower edge of the drawnportiere close to the selvage on the left sideof the curtain. Bring it under the horizontalthreads, and cut a little to the right of thetwenty-seventh thread. Then string nineopaque beads. Draw the thread tight andpress the beads up between the verticalstrands, drawing three of these threadsbetween every two beads. Then run theneedle from right to left through the ninebeads, holding the beads up with the lefthand so that the vertical threads are belowthe beads. Then proceed from left to right,threading eight beads. Continue this, lessen-ing the number of beads each time until onebead is left for the point. This is strung andpressed up between the fourth and fifth groupsof threa
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