SADDLE-BAG WORKBAGS.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 525, 12 January 1889, Page 4

SADDLE-BAG WORKBAGS.

The saddle-bag workbags are very nice, easy to make, and very attractive. Buy a chairback as rich in tinsel and Eastern-looking as possible. They can be had at about Is 9d each. Gut it in half, hem the cat edges, and sew it on to surah siilc or satin mcrveilleux to form the two ends of the bag. The chairback should be rather narrow, about .12 inches wide, and the silk (1 yard is required) cat to the same width. Turn the divided chairback on the wrong side, sew it to the silk, then turn it on its right side, and the bag is made. Then sew a close-set row of gilt sequins along the edge of each end. In the middle of the bag there will be a space of plain silk between the two chairback ends ; sew a length of satin ribbon across, to form a handle when the bag is lifted, and make two smart bows, and fix them at each side where the chairback commenced, but at opposite sides of the ribbon handle. This will give a good effect. About 3 yards or a little more of ribbon is required. A button and loop must be placed in the centre, close to the lop edge of each of the chairback sides to keep them closed, when full of work, wool, &c. About seven dozen sequins are required, but they are cheap to buy, and cost, I think, about 3d a dozen. These bags sell for 15s at bazaars, and sometimes even more. The sequins are put on ■■ rather loosely, with double silk. The chairbacks are the imitation Turkish ones, so general now. But it' a real good bag was to be made, a genuine Bulgarian article should be selected. Satin will not do to go with it, as the cotton &ido would show, and both sides of the material must be the same. If anyone care to work from these descriptions, they will see this at once.