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CALIFORNIA POPPY BORDER No. 1— EDNA GAMBLE 
PYROGRAPHY 
NIGHT (Page 163) 
■e.1010 Chapel St., 
All designs for Pyrography should be sent to Miss K. Liv 
New Haven, Ct., who has charge of this dcpartmc 
quiries in the Magazine. 
TREATMENT OF DESIGNS (Page J 62) 
Katherin L ivermore 
POPPIES. Outline — Burn the lined background very deep 
and strong ; stipple the upper background with tip of 
point, the lower background with flat side of point. Stain 
poppies dull red, leaves dull green, stems yellow, centres 
green. 
MISTLETOE. Either burn background very dark, leaving 
berries white and staining leaves yellow green, or leave back- 
ground light and burn the ornament very dark. 
IRIS. Burn outlines — For lower background burn deep 
lines, following general outline of ornament, upper back- 
ground stippled. Stain upper petals of Iris a blue-purple, the 
lower ones red-purple (Mr. Aulich's flower supplement in Sep- 
tember number is an excellent guide), stain leaves green. 
Keep the coloring very delicate. 
Edna Gamble 
SHOWING portion of California Mission in the fore ground. 
This design may be carried out in outline only ; back 
ground shaded from light to dark, as indicated in design. Or 
if colored, the moon pale-yellow, sky grayish-blue to purple; - 
mission creamy-yellow, shadows brown, with a suggestion of 
purple; poppies yellow, leaves and stems gray green. 
CALIFORNIA POPPY BORDERS FOR WOOD OR LEATHER 
Edna Gamble 
NO. i. Outline the design with the point; burn stronger 
in places; to be left uncolored or a mere suggestion 
of yellow in the flower, with a tinting of pale green for the 
leaves. 
No. 2. Outline clearly, burning stronger in places, 
shading back ground with the point. 
CALIFORNIA POPPY BORDER No. 2— EDNA GAMBLE 
