MUSIC-STAND DRAPERIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 365

MUSIC-STAND DRAPERIES.

Sheet music in any quantity is liable to have a ragged effect, even if neatly piled. On this account a closed receptacle is convenient. Small stands similar to open bookcases, but shorter, deeper, and narrower, can be utilised A shoe box may be made into a music stand by placing it in an upright position and putting in two shelves. The wood may be ebonized and ornamented with short brass posts screwed into each corner of the top. Across the front may be placed a rod and ring to support a curtain. If the top of the home-made stand is not smooth enough to bear inspection, a pretty cover may be added. A conspicuous feature of the music stand is the curtain made of art sheeting in a fawncoloured shade. A baud, a deeper shade of the same colour in Tudor velvet, crosses the upper part, being put on without any visible edge stitching. Across the lower part ot the curtain is a line of music, which can be drawn by the aid of a ruler. Both the straight and the upright lines that divide the bars are worked in outline stitch with black silk, the note stems with little dots for the heads. Above this line is a guitar worked in outline with brown silk. The strings hre made with Tapanese gold thread, worked solidly with light blue silk, or a real ribbon may- be basted on and hemmed down upon each edge.