The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1900, Page 14

U Eflective &Jork on Canvyas. \ ENp oF CROSS-STITCH SCARFE e \\\\\——,//, NEN 1IN CENTER Pileces .. SOMETHRING arse clot 1 this must be e Weave DESIGN ‘the natural colors, so deftly shaded as to ook like paintings on bolting cloth. Some- times the flowers stand alone; sometimes they are framed in old-fashioned geo- metrical borders. The roses for a small avs of flowers and quaint -kground Is usel flower sprays are carried out in ANTOINETTE Ny CROSS STITCH 0 “3‘0?.34 cushion are done in shaded pinks and thelr green leaves trail a bit over the border that follows two edges. The can- vas. background is of a yellowish tinge. 1t should bé laid over a strong pink and lined with the same. Nearly all the new pillows are back d front affairs, by the way. The back is of plain silk, which should carry out the color scheme of the room’s hangings; and the front is the em- broidered piece which harmonizes. Ruf- fles and cords are less used than formerly for the edges. A short gold fringe may finish a pillow, but even this is not need- ed. A simple seam will do. The -Marfe Antoinette work is another revival, and an elaborate one. Dapper little bouquets in dapper little wreaths, caught by dapper little bows, repeat them- selves from edge to edge, and apparently they never would stop if the pillow didn’t. Marie Antoinette appears to have been a terribly fussy lady, judging from the precision and primness that she required of the designs named for her. Cross stitches without number are needed to oprTy out one of her sofa cushions. The one favorable argument is that they are the most rapid stitches that a needle can take, for the weave of the fabric marks an easy path. A short cut to & Marle Antoinétte result is mchieved by using silk braid and cord upon a eatin background. To be sure, the sprays must be embroldered; but that Fom A SUNFLOWER. cusHiord ANTOINEBETTE CUSHIoN OF SAITIN - is not a great amount of work. One cush- ion is of cream satin, the circles carried out in dull green silk braid and cord. Stiff little pink roses stand primly up- right among green leaves—the whole pil- low lined with green satin. Long scarfs are in fashion for all sorts of places. They are used on centertables, on sidetables, on the old carved chest which stands at the foot of your stairs. If you are willing to hide the carving, vou can do so by throwing over it a very smart linen scarf done in a cross-stitch tapestry design. Firm brown linen is used for this scarf; the kind of linen that slistens like silk. A geometrical design interrupted at intervals by unclassified animals Is done in brilliant red silk, leav- ing a long strip of plain linen down the cepter. Lace finishes the edge. The queerest of all the canvas work is a square cushion cover which is a direct c of an old tapestry shown In the Musee Clinique of Paris. A grotesque lit- tle creature, as much man as anything else, is surrounded by a quartet such as never was gathered #hywhere else. A unicorn is one, a prancing and impossible goat is another, and two unearthly birds make up the four. All colors are used, but no bright tones are to be found. This is true in all the new tapestries; faded tints are the absolute rule. A good deal of the canvas work is de- signed in imitation of Majollca porcelain. — Porpiaes o~ TABLE Coves . . /‘@Ug (d This gives Itallan designs. Besides these are clumsy German flower stalks in a Jugend pattern, and the other patterns are French. The rule for soft colors, however, is universal. Next to the tapestry embroidery, white work is fashionable. White l'nen and mull are used fpr countless articles. Even the parlor has a big share of them. Parlor sofa cushions are made of fine white linen, embroidered and ruffled in white, and look#ng much more like a new baby's throne than a parlor ornament. They are not all.ornamental, though: delicate as they Jook, they can be washed as often as one likes and so they are the most use- ful kind of cushions. Almost any shape is permissible, the rectangular being even more In vogue than the square. For the dining room, white is almost universal. A few flowered doilles still linger, but they are back numbers, The swaggerest thing is plain linen bordered with lace; Renaissance, it may be, or Duchesse, or the heavier Clunie. Some- times a few simple bands of drawn work are combined, but they are unnecessary. Nothing can possibly be as hagdsome as a bare table of dark old oak or mahog- any with these exquisite circles of lace in relief upon it. Lace is used on the table cloth and/ napkins as well. Mono- grams are frowhed upon just now; initfals are used unlinked. These may be in coPYy OoF ANTIQUVE TABLE CLOTH RENAISSANCE lere Flre the Werp Latest Fads tn Embroidery Delicate Flower Jnventions. acript, old English or other fancy letters. and must be done in white, of course. Have them embroidered across one cor- ner of the napkins. and across two dlago- nal corners of the table cloth. For a side table—a table upon which re- freshments stacd—a cover may be made of brown linen worked in whatever flow- ers are used for the house decoration. This is an exception to the rule of white and gives relief In a Toom otherwise too dark, Splurgy red popples are stunning on the brown linen ground. For many, many years artists of the needle have tried to make flowers that should live. Solid embroidery e way to painted petals outlined with st! Ap- pliques of all kinds have failed until Paris kas at Igst hit upon the use of silk mull laid in tiny folds. This is fairly real ®.na at any rate a Cushions are made in E flowers are first stamped, then the ot line of each petal is followed b the bit of mull loosely with a few stitches, turning it over and drawing it so that it lles In loose folds that catch light and shade and are a rellef frem the unnatural flatness of solid embroidery, Stems and flower ‘centers may be put in with stitches, Instead of the mull a soft ribbon may be used with similar results. In most of this work the pastel tints are TAPESTRY back- used. Nile green makes g good ground for blue bel green foliage. w white, and the brown spo: to The have a d ash of ¢ birds erected cr attracted much admi green formerly all gone. DucHESSE LAcCE ON A CENTERPIECE