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KXRAMIC STUDIO 
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOLIDAY NOVELTIES 
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velopeswith water color surface, lettered, decorated or plain. Kodak 
books require heavy leaves of card board or colored poster board suitable 
for mounting prints. Needle books have leaves of colored felt. 
Baby Books contain a dozen or more leaves of stiff card board for 
mounting photos and writing the principal events of child's life, also an 
envelope to contain clippings. Decorate to fancy. The covers of all of 
the above are leather fastened with eyelets or brass brads, and tied with 
ribbon. 
The following are suitable for decorating back of baby books : " The 
angels sang in heaven when she was born," "The man is but the boy 
grown tall." 
" Enjoy the spring of love and youth. 
To some good angel leave the rest." 
Often measuring sticks or straps accompany the book, their use 
being to mark the height of child at various ages. The above quotations 
may be used upon them. 
Yard sticks and straps are made in same manner with words "Measure 
for Measure." 
Fig. 11.— Calling card cases 4$xnf, folded or cut at dotted lines. B. 
inside of finished case. C. double space made by inserting an extra flap 
when stitching. White leather is most popular as it admits of beautiful 
coloring. The decoration may be simple, or elaborately stained and 
jewelled. 
Writing folios on a larger scale are formed the same. Suitable quota- 
tions— "The pen is mightier than the sword." "Look then into thine 
heart and write." 
Fig. 12 — Photo pockets of leather board, yucca wood or heavy leather, 
crossed with straps of leather held in place by thongs strung through, 
terminating in tassel ends. Strips decorated in various conventional 
designs or letters. One made for a college boy holds six pictures with the 
following lines on strips: 
" Here's to the wittiest, 
Here's to the prettiest, 
Here's to the truest of all who are true. 
Here's to the sweetest one, 
Here's to the neatest one, 
Here's to them all in one — Here's to you." 
Fig. 13. — Wall pocket prepared to fold at dotted lines. 
Fig. ISA.— Completed with fastening of eyelets or double braid. Add 
a passepartout leaf hanger at top. 
Fig. 14. — Another style with closed pocket made on order of finger 
purse (Fig. 18) Calendars and thermometers may be attached to space 
above pocket. 
Fig. 15, 16, 17, 18.,— Finger purse in sections. A 4 x2J for the folding 
back. B, 2£x2f, a flap which forms pocket. C, strap l ,x 2h. D, com- 
pleted. Use heavy leather or cow hide, lined with silk or satin, basted in 
position and bound with ribbon, leather or simply stitched. (See decora- 
tions with Fig. 21.) If lined and not bound, turn in edges of silk neatly 
and baste before stitching. 
Fig. 19.— Match case 7£.x8£ Cut or fold at dotted lines. Punch 
four holes, and fasten emery cloth to leather with eyelets thongs or rib- 
bon. Burn monogram on back or the word " match." 
Fig. 20. — Cigar or cigarette case 12^x3J made in same manner as Fig. 
19. If decoration other than monogram is desired, this is large enough to 
admit of various designs or the words "Let your troubles end in smoke." 
Fig. 21. — Double cigar case, silk lined. Cut each piece o\x$§. Place 
upon it a layer of cotton and silk felt or velvet — make the flaps (a) in 
same manner, and bind their curved tops with ribbon or leather. Baste 
all together in form of drawing, bind edges with ribbon and stitch upon 
machine. Fasten together the two portions with ribbon through eyelet 
holes. 
Fig. 22.— Medicine or manicure cases made after the style of Fig. 21, 
stitching the flap in divisions. 
Fig. 23. — Pockets for shoes and brushes any desired size. 
Fig. 24. — Pocket with flap for dental forceps. These can be sold in 
quantities to dental supply houses, being especially good for such use, as 
flap may be folded over and entire article rolled up without injury to in- 
struments. Stitch partitions H inch apart. 
Fig. 25. — Stamr> case 7x3*. Fold on dotted lines. Burn the word 
"Stamps." 
Fig. 26. — Case for letters or cards 14.? x 4]. Make after manner of 
Fig. 19. Cut the thumb strap separately and attach to top of flap when 
stitching. Burn with monogram or words "Letters " — " Cards." 
Fig. 27. — Shaving pad Ox 7 -J. Cut from heavy leather or yucca wood. 
Place a pad of tissue paper between and fasten all together through eye- 
lets or punched holes with ribbon or brass brads etc. Burn the word 
"Shaving " — "A clean shave " or figure of small boy "A little shaver." 
Fig. 28-33. — Various forms for calendars, thermometers, and hanging 
match scratchers. Make of any fancy matt, novelty, poster, veneer 
board or yucca palm. They admit of vast number of decorations. Figures 
may be cut from leather, colored and appliqued— or from emery paper 
painted with water colors. For example, a man in huge hat and over- 
coat with back turned toward you, and the words, "Scratch my back." 
Ballet girls with skirts of emery and the words "Very striking." Golf 
girls, or fencing girls with hearts or shields of emery, " A striking girl." 
Two comic figures exactly alike or the head of a donkey and dude, " A 
good match." Figures or heads of pickaninnies and Chinese children, 
"Looking for light." Base ball boys with bat, "Strikeone!" 
FOR CALENDARS. 
Ladies of fashion with the words, "Up-to-date." 
Comic running figures, " Catch np with Time," or "You'll have to 
hurry! " 
Various quotations are also suitable, as follows: 
"Think that to-day will never dawn again." 
" Wisely improve the present." 
" Do not delay, the golden moments fly! " 
"To-morrow never comes." 
" To-day alone is thine." 
"Act that each to-morrow find us further than to-day." 
All of above ideas may be painted on medallions of water color paper 
or poster board, and glued to article being decorated. If it is a calendar, 
add a tiny calendar pad— if a match scratcher paste in some appropriate 
place, a heart, leaf, diamond, etc., of emery cloth. 
Fig. 34. — Glove mending set made from a basswood heart burned with 
a landscape, and hung with brass chains. Scissors, glove mender and 
mending cotton attached with ribbons to brass screw eyes. 
Fig. 35. — Various forms for pen wipers, needle books, blotters and 
favors, in basswood, leather, &c. 
Tobacco pouches and money bags and mending bags are easily con- 
structed and patterns of various forms may be used. They are drawn at 
top with leather thongs, cords, &c, or fastened to simple metal tops 
which come for purses. 
Opera glass bags and shopping bags can also be made in various 
shapes. The former will admit of elaborate decoration. Those made of 
white, pale blue, pale yellow and pink kid, with designs stained and jew- 
eled are rapidly sold to jewelry houses in quantities. They should have 
the tops drawn together with oval or round metal " gate " 'tops. If these 
are jeweled the same color jewels should be used in the decoration of the 
bag. They have brass chains or the fancy jeweled chains which are used 
extensively for fans. Braided chains, tassels and fringe may be made of 
the same leather as bag, or gold or silver fringe and cords. 
Cheap ones have a simple monogram and a draw string of leather 
with tassel ends. 
Fig. 38 and 37. — Models for triangular box leather board— The sec- 
tions X to be burned. Fig. 36 completed box. Cut on dotted lines. Sec- 
tions X to be decorated and form the three sides and bottom. Use a 
sharp matt knife and do not cut entirely through the board, which allows 
it to fold but not break. Use thin grade board. 
Various boxes for gloves, handkerchiefs, jewels etc. may be made 
from the heavy leather board. Punch closely along edges which are in- 
tended to join and lace together with two strands of ribbon as you would 
a shoe. 
Screen photo frames and mending baskets are easily constructed from 
this material and joined with bows of ribbon. 
Scrap books for clippings may have backs of this material, leaves of 
various colored poster or novelty paper— the whole joined in book form 
with ribbons through eyelets in back. 
For children's scrap books use leaves of paper cambric. 
A unique one made recently had burned txpon it "The doings of 
Happy Hooligan," and contained the various comic acts attributed to him 
clipped from the Chicago American. "The leaves were of thin, black 
poster board, and the back was decorated with a characteristic sketch of 
"Happy." "The Katzen jammer Kids" furnished material for another 
and were obtained from the same source. 
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A NUT SET IN BURNED WOOD 
Katherin Liver mo re 
A NUT set in burned wood makes a most appropriate gift at 
this season of the year. It may consist of one large and 
six small bowls, a wooden spoon for serving the nuts, six nut 
picks — (get the ordinary metal picks at a hardware store, have 
the ends ground down to a sharp point and have a wood turner 
make the wooden handles) — there should also be a small tray 
to contain the picks; — a cracker can be added if desired, but 
is not necessary. 
We have just finished a set in a Persian design — keeping 
the ornament in the dull reds, greens and blues; the outside 
of the bowls were stippled, also the handles of the picks and 
spoon, and the outside of the small tray. 
