HOME DECORATIONS. 
Plush, velvet, woolen fabrics of the kind suitable for the 
article to be made, can all be used for this work. For 
tidies or window drapery, pongee or cheese-cloth can be 
ornamented with this outline work, and thus rendered 
very beautiful. 
The tinsels may be procured in various shades of gold, 
silver, red and blue at fifteen cents a ball, several yards 
in each. The different shades, if tastefully arranged in one 
pattern, are very pretty. Silk the color of the tinsel is re¬ 
quired to catch it to the material, but instead of sewing 
through the tinsel the stitches must be taken over it very 
carefully, that they may not be seep. 
A design of daisies is very pretty if silver is used for 
the flowers, gold for the centres which should be worked 
solidly, and gold and red for the leaves. 
Designs of other flowers can be braided with good 
effect. 
The work is simple, and so quickly accomplished that 
it is worth a trial, for so many pretty articles can in this 
way be made. 
Outline Embroidery. 
T INSEL outline work can be applied to almost any 
fabric, and is not at all difficult, for it is similar to 
braiding. 
A plush band for table-scarf is very pretty, or it can be 
used for the border of a large table-cover, for tidies, chair 
stripes, or many of the articles on which the various kinds 
of embroidery are executed. The designs for this work 
should be conventional, and much like the braiding pat¬ 
terns. The only parts ever shaded or worked solidly are 
the centres of flowers when necessary. 
Many of the Briggs patterns are suitable, as well as 
pretty, and so easily transferred to most materials that 
they are exceedingly convenient for the purpose, although 
they cannot be used on such material as plush, for the 
texture is too soft and thick. Therefore, it is necessary 
to have the design stamped upon it, or those who under¬ 
stand drawing can sketch their own pattern with a fine 
brush and Chinese white. 
