RERAMIC STUDIO 
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PLATE DESIGNS -WILD FLOWERS OF TEXAS 
Sallie S. Holt 
NO. I. Fox glove. Tint the plate very delicately with 
yellow brown for first fire. Draw the whole design in 
gold for second fire. Fill in with the enamels for third fire, 
using deep purple, very little purple to a good deal of enamel, 
just enough to make a deep purplish pink. The tender leaves 
at the top a delicate green, the larger leaves and stems a shade 
darker. The wide bands are green outlined in gold. 
No. 2. Is a wild berry. Treat it in the same way as No. 
I, only make the purple enamel very dark for the outer ber- 
ries, and use a delicate green for the smaller bunch. Shade 
the leaves with a darker green. The little flower looking 
forms at the end are the berries that have burst forming a 
little flower. 
No. 3. Is a very delicate little flower, with a very deli- 
cate violet edge shaded into pure snow white center, the 
stamens and pistil are also white ; unless you examine it closely 
you would not see them. Fill in the little flowers with a thin 
wash of white enamel (add a little Chinese white to the en- 
amel), before firing the gold, for the last firing touch the edge 
with light violet of gold, to which a little deep blue has been 
added. The top flower, the four petals are very light green 
and the three are a shade darker. These designs will fit the 
Ransom salad plates exactly. 
No. 4. Iron Weed. The upper part of flower, ruby en- 
amel, with a touch of blue. Lattice gold, with green enamel 
between — stems, leaves and bands green outlined in gold. 
No. 5. Wild Coreopsis. Flowers a deep yellow orange- 
with brown center, put the centers in with white enamel for 
first fire, cover with violet of iron to which a little black has 
been added, the buds, stems, leaves and bands green enamel, 
outlined with gold. 
No. 6. Wild Daisy. Tint the enamel with a very little 
light violet of gold (as the flower is the most delicate lilac 
shade), the centers yellow, leaves, stems and bands green en- 
amel outlined in gold. 
No. 7. Black Eyed Susan. The centers are a dark red- 
dish brown, the petals a deep orange, leaves and stems pale 
green. 
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Officers of the League. 
Miss Ida A. Johnson, President, 193 St. James Place, Brooklyn 
Miss Sophia Gaskell Keenan, Vice-President, 5550 Hays St., Pittsburg 
Mrs. Evelyn S. DeWitt, Rec. Secretary, 47 W. J 6th St., New York 
Miss Myra Boyd, Cor. Secretary, Pittsburg 
Miss M. Helen E. Montfort, Treasurer, 307 Lenox Ave. , New York 
Mrs. Kate C. Gore, Sec. to the Pres., 172 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn 
BOARD MEMBERS. 
Miss Mary Ohase Perry, Detroit. Mrs. C. L. Swift, Boston. 
Mrs. O. O. Church, San Francisco. Mrs. Lois E. Andresen, New York. 
Mrs. L. W. Holcomb, New York. Miss Ida A. Johnson, Brooklyn. 
THE exigencies of the holiday season and the various exhi- 
bitions are absorbing the clubs at this time, consequently 
the League has nothing very active to report, save that the 
wheels are still going round. Plans are being made for the 
representation of the League at the St. Louis Exposition, as 
Well as the Comparative Exhibition next May. 
The criticism of the vase used in the previous com- 
petition, that it had too small a base, has been heeded in the 
selection of the present model, which is well known and sat- 
isfactory as to standing qualities. 
The Advisory Board wishes to convey its Christmas and 
New Year greetings to the clubs, one and all ; to those who 
are of our body corporate, as well as to those who have not 
yet joined our ranks, but whose co-operation we hope we may 
have ere long. Sincerely yours, 
Ida H. Johnson, 
President N. L. M. P. 
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PYROGRAPHY 
A II designs for Pyrography 
St., New Haven, Ct., who ha. 
quiries in the Magazine. 
should be sent to Miss K. Livermoi 
charge of this department and 
'., 1010 Chapel 
SUGGESTION IN PERSIAN ORNAMENT (Pages 206-207) 
K. Livermore 
OUTLINE and burn any desired background, making a con- 
trast between the outer and inner back-grounds. Color 
as follows, using water colors: Dotted spaces, green (Olive 
Green and Hooker's Green make a pleasing tone); leaves the 
same; black spaces, dark blue; large white form in center, 
light blue; outer petal-forms, dull red, also the two forms in 
center having short lines ; the turn-overs on petals leave in 
natural wood color. Small flower forms outside of leaves, red. 
The design is suitable for table, piano-bench or tabourette. 
Study colors in Persian ornament, if possible to obtain books. 
