THE CRAFTS 
Under the management of Miss Emily Peacock, 232 East 2Jth Street, New York. All inquiries in regard to the various 
Crafts are to be sent to the above address, but will be answered in the magazine under this head. 
All questions must be received before the 10th day of month preceding issue, and will be answered under ''Answers to 
stamped envelope for reply. The editors will answer questions only in these columns. 
^INCE the crafts department has been established in Ker- 
*- ? amic Studio we have published technical instructions 
for nearly all the important branches of craftswork. We 
will in the coming numbers treat of new subjects, such as 
work in pewter by Jules Brateau, the Javanese Batik, etc. 
Meanwhile we would be glad to receive designs for appli- 
cation* to the different crafts as well as for china decoration, 
and would purchase all such designs which seem to us 
worth publishing. As much as possible, treatments should 
be sent with them. For instance, if a design is intended 
for a leather portfolio, or a carved wood tray, or a piece of 
pottery etc., the treatment should explain how the work 
must be done. However, many designers, though un- 
familiar with special craftwork, may wish to submit good 
designs without treatment. These will be acceptable, but 
will not be as valuable to us as those accompanied with 
treatments. All designs should be submitted to Miss 
Emily F. Peacock, 232 East 27th Street, New York. 
Inquiries" only. Please do not send 
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there is also great variety, cheese cloth or cotton bunting 
looks exceptionally well when stenciled, and chambray, 
unbleached muslin, light weight linen, scrim, china silk, 
pongee and raw silks are a few of the numerous materials 
which may be used to good effect. 
One advantage of this method is that one may have in 
his or her own home designs especially adapted to personal 
taste. The whole furnishings of a room may be carried 
out in different adaptations of one design using colors 
which blend well into a harmonious general effect. A 
living room in a sea shore cottage had designs of sea shells, 
sea weed, etc. stenciled on the couch cover, curtains and 
draperies. The colors used were principally blues, greens 
and a few suggestions of the violet tones of the sea. As 
FABRIC STENCILING 
Harry Barnes Goundrey 
TO lovers of the original and beautiful in decoration 
the art of stenciling on fabrics makes a direct appeal. 
To be sure the stencil has been employed for years as a 
means of transferring designs, and people of other countries, 
the Japanese particularly, have become proficient in its 
use, producing with stencils the most artistic effects, but 
it is only of late years coming into use for house-furnish- 
ings in this country. While by a study of the Japanese 
stencils a beginner may get hosts, of ideas, they are mostly 
too elaborate and complicated to commence with and it 
is better to start with the more simple designs. 
It is astonishing the great number of uses to which 
Fabric Stenciling may be put. Curtains, door hangings, 
sofa-pillow tops, table covers and so on, even to neck scarfs, 
collars, waists and opera bags, may be decorated in this 
way. The choice of materials is very great and as in the 
foundation material lies the principal cost it may be varied 
to suit all pocketbooks. For drapery stuffs there is a 
wide range from velour, arras-cloth, linen crash, shaiki 
silk, denim and so on down to unbleached factory which 
retails at about 15 cents a yard. For window curtains 
