New Effects with Felt Cut-Outs.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6627, 14 August 1931, Page 11

New Effects with Felt Cut-Outs.

Manufacturers of transfer patterns are seeking to encourage the craftswoman to employ coloured felts as a means of decorating accessories for the home. They now supply. designs, especially planned for exploiting this particular medium, so that, with the aid of scissors and the right sort of paste, decorative effects of great charm and originality may bo achieved. Some of the most attractive of the folt ornamentations are on the lines of silhouette portraits. A young Victorian miss, wearing a Victorian bonnet tied under her chin in a big bow; a “young blood" of the same period, in a cravat and Nicholas Nickelby topper, a child in a crinoline frock —all come out wonderfully well iu black felt, and can be attached to old-fashioned chintz for the new cushion covers. If you are not very keen on felt, you can work with black sateen instead. From a length of green felt you can cut a hillside and an old gabled cottage standing out against a blue linen sky. you may, of course, elaborate thjs theme with felts in various suitable tones, or you may get a night effect by keeping the colours to greys and black.

There are flower posies, too, meant to be developed in felts. These are very ingenious, for, by means of flowershaped cut-outs, some of them allow the underground of cretonne or chintz to stand forth like so many blossoms.