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THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
Design for Wood-}3asket Cover. 
the work is pretty on plush, velvet, cloth or less expensive 
fabrics. 
The branch of an apple-tree, with fruit and foliage, is 
embroidered with tinsel upon plush. The leaves are of 
gold, the apples deep crimson, the motto or words in 
orange or gold tinsel; the directions for this work are 
given in a former number of The Cabinet. 
Should silks or crewels be used for the embroidery, the 
leaves and fruit should be colored with their natural tints, 
and the words only embroidered in tinsel or wood colors. 
The baskets are made of willow, with sides, but open at 
each end. They can be purchased at any willow-ware or 
house-furnishing shop. They are exceedingly pretty 
when decorated in this way to place beside an open fire¬ 
place, where the wood can conveniently be kept with 
which to replenish the fire. 
A bow of satin ribbon is tied at each side of the handle, 
and the lower edges of the side-pieces trimmed with 
fringe or the small silk balls which are so often used in 
place of fringe. 
One of the common splint market-baskets, twenty 
inches long by ten inches wide, will be found more du¬ 
rable, however, and can be decorated in a very tasteful, 
pretty way. Color the outside of the basket either by 
using shellac first and a coat of copal varnish when this 
is dry, which gives it the appearance of light-polished 
wood; or, what is prettier still, color the slats with 
metallic or lustra paints, using 
two shades, as, for instance, 
bronze and blue, alternating the 
colors on the slats. When dry, 
a branch of pine, with its needles 
and cones, may be painted across 
the side and the same motto, al¬ 
ready suggested, put on in gay 
lettering. 
The basket may then have a 
full lining of cardinal, or light- 
blue cambric, and bows of broad 
satin, or grosgrain ribbon, tied at 
each side of the handle. 
M. E. Whittemore. 
Decorative Notes. 
NOVELTY in decoration is 
a tinsel-like material called 
“filogrette,” which is made into 
leaves and flowers, and then ar¬ 
ranged in sprays and clusters for 
trimming scrap-baskets, wall-pockets, screens and man¬ 
tel lambrequins. Water-lilies and buds are very beautiful 
of this material, as a metallic colored tinsel is used for 
the leaves, and forms a delightful contrast to the silvery 
white of the blossoms and buds. A straight mantel 
drapery of deep wine-colored plush, caught up only at 
the mantel corners and hanging quite long at the ends, 
was trimmed with a long spray of these silvery blossoms, 
which stand out in relief as the natural flowers would be 
fastened. A row of triple plush balls finished the edge of 
the lambrequin. The separate flowers, buds and leaves 
of the filogrette can be purchased at Bentley’s for from ten 
to seventy-five cents each, according to size and quality. 
Japanese fans have served a good purpose in many 
kinds of decoration, but, even when highly colored, the 
ugly designs printed on most of them detract very much 
from the beauty. This objection is overcome by cover¬ 
ing the paper portion with plush, velvet, or satin. 
Treated in this way and arranged in a half-open posi¬ 
tion, they form very ornamental shields for wall-pockets. 
The folding fans are the ones chosen, and they should 
have few sticks and not very small folds, or when cov¬ 
ered they will seem clumsy and the pretty effect be de¬ 
stroyed. A pasteboard pocket, just large enough to be 
hidden by the fan, is made in the shape of a quarter cir¬ 
cle, the part to be against the wall a trifle smaller than 
the front, so the latter will round out a very little and 
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