Materials: 15 inches of French blue cashmere; silks of various colours.
A shape in bamboo cane, painted brown and varnished.
[Illustration: 175.--Glove Box.]
The ornamentation of this box is both novel and tasteful. It is
embroidered in coloured silks, upon light blue cashmere. Part of the
embroidery pattern is given in full size. All the outlines are worked in
overcast, the stitches being made rather long and slanting, and the
small leaves are each composed of one stitch, as in point Russe. The
leaves are alternately red and yellow upon a green stem; the scalloped
outline which has no leaves is red. The pine patterns are worked in
satin stitch--the centre one is green, edged with red; the side ones are
pink, edged with red; the small wing-like figures are black, edged with
maize; the diamond, maize, edged with black, with an outer rim of maize.
In the round pattern the centre is pink; the edge red, with red and
yellow leaves; the 3 outer circles are successively white, green, and
red; at the top the centre branch is yellow, the leaves red and yellow,
the side ones are green, with the leaves pink and green.
The strip of embroidered cashmere is lined with blue silk, slipped
through the bamboo-canes of the mounting, and joined together at the
side by a seam. The cover is lined with plain blue cashmere, upon which
initials might be embroidered at discretion. The four corners are
ornamented with pretty silk tassels, of colours to match with the
embroidery. To fasten the box, sew on a blue ribbon to the cover, and
one to the box.
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