What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . itexactly. Then cover the paper or cardboard from which youwish to cut out the furniture with a piece of carbon-paper,black side down, and over that place your tracing. Draw overthis again with a very sharply pointed pencil or pointed stick,and the lines will be repeated by the carbon-paper on the undersheet of paper. The furniture, for which designs are given in this chapter,can be made of stiff note-paper, Whatmans drawing-paper, orthin Bristol board. The drawings can be copied or either case the greatest care must be taken t
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . itexactly. Then cover the paper or cardboard from which youwish to cut out the furniture with a piece of carbon-paper,black side down, and over that place your tracing. Draw overthis again with a very sharply pointed pencil or pointed stick,and the lines will be repeated by the carbon-paper on the undersheet of paper. The furniture, for which designs are given in this chapter,can be made of stiff note-paper, Whatmans drawing-paper, orthin Bristol board. The drawings can be copied or either case the greatest care must be taken that the meas-urements are minutely correct and the lines perfectly slip of paper is a very good thing to measure with. Enough designs have been given to show how most dif-ferent kinds of furniture can be made. These can, of course,be varied and increased by copying from good furniture lists;while many little things such as saucepans, dishes, clocks, andso forth, can be copied from stores lists and added to the fewthat are given on p. 248. 1. The Library and Furniture fromThe House that Glue Built (Facingjioge 2^^) DOLLS HOUSES 245 These small articles are cut out flat, but an extra piece ofpaper is left under each, which, when bent back, makes astand. General Instructions The front legs of chairs, the legs of tables, and the backsof furniture must be neatly joined together by narrow stripsof stamp-paper or adhesive tape. To do this, cut a strip of theright size, crease it down the middle, and stick one this to dry, before you fix the other. Wherever in the pictures there is a dotted line, it meansthat the paper is to be folded there. It will be easily seenwhether it is to be folded up or down. Before the furniture is folded it should be , iron, brass, and silk can all be imitated in color. In cutting out small spaces of cardboard — as between thebars of a chair — lay the card on a board, and keeping yourknife, which should be sharp at the p
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