FLOWER PICTURES.
AN OLD GHARM REVIVED. Tlie woman who likes needlework and can embroider flowers might utilise this accomplishment in a particularly attractive and novel manner. On little squares, ovals and oblong* of fine, self-coloured linen or parchmenttinted silk—inoire is particularly prettyembroider posies of flowers or flowering sprays, either in silks or wools. Cut white cardboard to the required sizes, and stretch the tiny pictures over these shapes, drawing the edges to the back and sewing them across and across. They can then bo fitted into small frames with glass. Plain wooden fraryes 3in. to din. wide only cost a few pence. Lacquer each frame the bright colour which is the chief note in the flower study it contains, grass green, gold or silver.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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124FLOWER PICTURES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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