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In Cassell’s Magazine I saw a very pretty cushion cover made of bed ticking. The stripes were worked over with colored embroidery cotton of different shades —one line of herr-ing-bone stitch, one of chain-stitch, and one of a zig-zag pattern, made by taking six threads together, and sewing them down with a thread of yellow, There was very little of the ticking visible, but here and there a line was left if it contrasted or harmonised well with the work. It occuredr to me that if tinsel were intiodnced here and there it would brighten this work up considerably. Alum horse shoes, —Form a horse shoe with wire or cardboard and cover it with worsted. Next dissolve in hot water as much alum as the liquid will take up. Let it cool, and then suspend the horse shoe in it. In a short time the shoe will be found to be beautifully crystallised.
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Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 3, 20 April 1895, Page 10
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