Description of the Desig^is 117 



LETTERS OR PORTIONS OF DESIGNS MAY BE 

 DONE : 



I St. To imitate the richest Gold Embroidery — by cover- 

 ing the required card-board shape with coarse Dun- 

 stable straw, sold for the making of womens' bonnets. 

 This should be sewn on all round the outside edge 

 first, so as to ensure a correct outline ; and then the 

 remainder filled in by degrees, so that the last central 

 row is as much raised as possible. 



2nd. In Rice, — The effect of this is that of carved 

 ivory. The required shape, cut out in white cartooning 

 paper, should be firmly tacked down to its intended 

 foundation, and then covered with a coating of thick 

 warm paste; into which the rice grains must be 

 dropped, and arranged so as to lie closely and 

 regularly together, and the whole left until it is per- 

 fectly stiff and dry. The same directions apply to 

 letters or designs done in Red Berries, being quite as 

 effectual as the method already described on page 112; 

 or in the smaller Immortelle blossoms. But of the 



