. Godey's lady's book . ^===^sff^;)^:&r=^^\. PEN-WIPER PATTERN. and the edges sewed over with some sort of ornamentalwork or braid. This is in green velvet, or claret cloth ;the edges of the velvet are covered with gold braid, anda line of black beads laid along the centre of the velvet,is also edged on each side with gold thread. Black glassbeads are dotted here and there over the pattern. How is that row of beads put on, mamma ? If I sewthem on one at a time, there will be large spaces be-tween. Yes ; you will find it better to thread them on alength of black silk, and then, with another nee
. Godey's lady's book . ^===^sff^;)^:&r=^^\. PEN-WIPER PATTERN. and the edges sewed over with some sort of ornamentalwork or braid. This is in green velvet, or claret cloth ;the edges of the velvet are covered with gold braid, anda line of black beads laid along the centre of the velvet,is also edged on each side with gold thread. Black glassbeads are dotted here and there over the pattern. How is that row of beads put on, mamma ? If I sewthem on one at a time, there will be large spaces be-tween. Yes ; you will find it better to thread them on alength of black silk, and then, with another needlefulof silk, take a stitch across the thread, between every twobeads. The silk on which you thiead them should bevery coarse, but you will sew them over with may, if you like, put a trimming of gold beads, orblack bugles, round the pen-wiper. The button for the centre is very pretty. Yes, it is an eagle, in carved ivory ; look at the eyes,how exquisitely they are finished. Everything orna-mental is now made in Paris with some sor
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