EGYPTIAN PANELS.
Tuitankahamun; having already influenced dress and jewellery in Paris and •elsewhere, is now influencing house decoration. Already we see the pottery, earthenware, brass and copper work brought back after tours or sent home by our soldiers from Egypt, and allowed to drift gradually into odd corners, being .brought again to light, remarks an English exchange. None of these are so useful characteristically decorative as the tent work which some possess. It may bo described as a combination .of glorified patchwork and of applique. In its native land it is ued to construct shelters flat-topped marqueesas we would pictures or panels, as permanent or temporary partitions, or to hide, any ugly corner in the home. Tent work is easily made by anyone who can use a needle and ha? the decorative sense. The materials are vari-coloured rags and canvas. The patchwork is of the brightest hues, and the applique is done with a hem stitch. The work can be as detailed as the needlewoman likes, some of the patterns being as fine as in a hand-made carpet or a piece of hand-woven cloth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18397, 12 May 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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184EGYPTIAN PANELS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18397, 12 May 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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