Woolwork Stool

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 June 1935, Page 12

Woolwork Stool

Stools, about eight ox* nine inches high and with a certain amount of space, are among the more useful of small pieces of furniture and can also bo among the most pleasing. They offer scope for woolwork, and simple colouring is the best. Some people make a plain rectangle of woolwork in small diamonds, red and beige alternately. The red is best the colour of the old French soldier’s trousers and the beige a rather neutral tint, that is not too yellow, or what is called natural colouring. Others eschew such regularity and have much background, perhaps of beige or of cream with a red undertone, in one corner of which is a small, stiff design of bird or j flower, so much conventionalised that it becomes almost purely ornamental. •Monograms! are sometimes used on. [ stools and they arc best, with much stool and little lettering. Lettering is usually done in what looks like black but is really nigger brown. Nigger brown and natural colouring together give, a black-and-white effect, though they are neither. . The stool itself may bo made at borne by anyone with a. gift, for carpentry. Legs may he bought separately in various styles, some straight, some curved Queen Anne fashion. Upon those should be mounted a rectangle. of wood, carefully dovetailed at the corners. Upon another wooden fiame, with girths criss-crossed on it and padded, the woolwork can he stretched, taking great care that the padding is even and not too high in the middle. Stools such as those serve many purposes, from the carrying of a coffee tray to a. leg-rest. Such an addition to a chair almost turns it into a. couch, and stools should all he made a shade lower than the armchairs with which they are to go. Woolwork thus becomes not merely a pastime but a considerable asset to the drawing room. I