. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Fig. 3. Yard Goods Drapes for Selfridges, London The swans are made of cardboard or wood skeleton, to shape. For neck cut outshape in flat cardboard and pad on either side with soft paper, to get the roundness ofneck; cover the whole with lemon paper or sateen, over which place crochet doilies orhandkerchiefs. Black buttons will form eyes. Our Fig. 3 shows a type of draping used by the Selfridge store in London. Thisdraping was done by Sir. Edward N. Goldsman, an American window trinnner
. The Koester school book of drapes; a complete text book and course of instruction in merchandise draping. Fig. 3. Yard Goods Drapes for Selfridges, London The swans are made of cardboard or wood skeleton, to shape. For neck cut outshape in flat cardboard and pad on either side with soft paper, to get the roundness ofneck; cover the whole with lemon paper or sateen, over which place crochet doilies orhandkerchiefs. Black buttons will form eyes. Our Fig. 3 shows a type of draping used by the Selfridge store in London. Thisdraping was done by Sir. Edward N. Goldsman, an American window trinnner, who hashad charge of Selfridges window displays ever since the store started. There is quite a variety of drapes in this window and the accessories, such as hats,shoes, parasols, feathers, etc., are well placed. 317. 318 FoHHiGN Draping EXAMPLES OF DRAPING FROM AUSTRALIA THE illustrations on this page show special drapes of dress goods that were made overfixtures of his own making by a window trimmer in Sydney, Australia. Whileboth of these drapes are out of the ordinary, they are simple and easily first one is made around cores upon which linoleum is wound. The cores werecut in different lengths; then the material was wrapped around them smoothly and theends were arranged in littleside sweeps as shown in theillustration. The trimmingconsisted of narrow velvetribbon. The second figurewas made over a tall, squarebox-like fixture having aplain square base. This wasfirst covered with heavy pa-per put on smoothly andthen the draping was doneas shown in the almost endless varietyof fixtures can be made onthe same general principleof those shown here. These draping stands willsuggest good foundationsfor use in developing manyof the drapes in our lessonsin this book.
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