DAINTY D'OYLEYS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XI, 14 March 1896, Page 306

DAINTY D'OYLEYS.

Dainty d’oyleysthat will go to thewash and come home again with their faces smiling, are things we all require, and original designs are what money will not purchase : they must be thought and worked out by the housewife herself. I was much delighted by a set of d'oyleys which an American friend of mine has just completed, two of the designs of which I have had drawn for my readers' benefit. There were six ; two I give here and a wall flower, a buttercup, a daisy, a cornflower, and a violet, all of which flowers lend themselves especially well to this kind of treatment. The material used was a very fine linen lawn, and they were embroidered with ‘Asiatic Filoselle silk Flos ’ The scroll work of the outer edge should be buttonholed with white flos silk, thereby rendering it quite neat and free from ravelling. Of course, after it is worked, the material must be cut away with a pair of very sharp scissors. Let us take the nasturtiums first: these should be carried out in shades of yellow, orange, and red. using the latter very sparingly and being careful that it is of a terracotta tone, otherwise it will not harmonise well either with the vellow or the orange. In fact, the strong shade should be used more to heighten the character of the whole than as a

leading feature, each of the petals should be shaded with a dark brownish colour where it joins the calex, the stems, leaves, tendrils, etc., should be worked in soft shades of grey-green silk. Each of the scrolls round the edge are treated altogether by means of a single blossom which, though it is worked, so to speak, full faced should be shaded carefully so as to lessen the look of flatness it otherwise would have. Much individual taste may be shown in the pansy d’oyley, as of course these flowers have such an immense variety of colouring that the worker must be

chiefly guided by the surroundings of her dinner table ; even when these come to be considered it is often very hard to make a choice when working such small flowers as these must necessarily be It is found better not to employ too many colours ; two rich purple shades at the back petals, the three lower ones being carried out in a light yellow with dark veinings of the purple shades have an excellent effect, a rather more reddish colour may be substituted in the place of the purple, which will effect a pretty contrast without being too strong. Mauve pansies, those with brown backgrounds and yellow lower petals are exceedingly effective, and almost white blossoms with dark veinings are extremely pretty. Either yellow or bronze mav be used for the stems or leaves, and it is as well not to keep them too dark.

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