This box can be made in very stiff card-board, but tin is better
if you have the pieces which form its shape cut by the tinman, and
punched with holes in rows an inch and a half apart. If you use
card-board, you must punch your own holes, measuring the places for
them with rule and pencil. In either case, you will need the same
number of pieces and of the same size, namely: two strips one foot
long and five inches wide, two strips one foot long and three inches
wide, and two strips five inches long and three inches wide. Cover
each piece with a layer of cotton wadding, sprinkled with sachet
powder, and a layer of silk or satin of any color you prefer. Then
catch the silk firmly down through the holes in the tin, making long
stitches on the wrong side, and small cross-stitches on the right,
so as to form neat regular tufts. A very tiny button sewed in each
depression has a neat effect. When the inside of the box is thus
tufted, baste the pieces together, cover the outside with black or
dark silk or satin, embroidered or ornamented in any way your fancy
may dictate, overhand the edges daintily, and neatly finish with
a small cord. Square boxes made in the same way are pretty for
pocket-handkerchiefs.
[Illustration: SILK GLOVE-BOX.]
[Illustration: DIAGRAM SHOWING THE MANNER OF TUFTING THE LINING OF
SILK GLOVE-BOX.]