NEW USE FOR DISH MOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 18

NEW USE FOR DISH MOPS

Lovely shaggy chrysanthemums can be made from the homely dish mop, and can be used for decorating hats, belts, and frocks, or as table decorations. To make them- you need as many mops as the number of flowers you intend to make, some tubes of dye, one small pot of gold paint, one small ■pot of green enamel, and a small roll of rose wire. First dye your mop heads. Do them in a small basin, putting in a whole tube of dye and mixing it with boiling water. This will dye two mops—the second being a lighter shade than the first. Take the mop by the handle and dip it up and down until it is the shade you like. Then hold it under the cold water tap and rinse well. Shake free from water and hang up to dry, shaking frequently to keep the strands of the mophead separate. When thoroughly dry, part the middle, and the end of the stick will show through. Paint this with gold. Now saw off the wooden handle an inch from the mophead, and sharpen the bit left to a point. Cut two pieces of wire about 4in long and push them through the pointed end at the back of the mop so that they come up beside the gold middle. Bend the tips of the wire over and they will catch in tha strands of the cotton and hold firm. Pull down slightly so that they are hidden in the mop. Press the other ends to the pointed shape at the back of the mop and twist the wire so that it holds your flower. Paint the pointed piece and the wire green. Make the wire longer if you •want the flowers for the talkie.