BAMBOO WORK.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue II, 11 July 1896, Page 62

BAMBOO WORK.

Bamboos are perhaps the most fascinating of all materials to the amateur carpenter. It is stained, and with a bright polished surface, so that it only requires fitting together to make it at once an oruamental framework adapted for the countless and one things to which he or she wishes to put it. Nearly all of us become possessed at one time or another of some pieces of Indian or Oriental work. It may be that it has been brought tons from abroad by a friend, or in an unwary moment we have purchased it at a local bazaar and know not how to turn it to advantage. Well, these pieces make most excellent panels for screens and there are simply hundreds of ways in which we may make an original artistic screen of so individual a character that every one would know that we had made it, and to our own personal taste. These sticks of bamboo are fitted to each

other by the simple process of cutting a piece out of one rod and fitting another into it. Pieces of embroidery are then stretched upon canvas well tacked to the bamboo and neatly lined at the back. The little coloured silk curtains tied together at the side give a pretty effect to the lower panels, while a narrow shelf projects out to hold odds and ends immediately below the upper ones. This kind of screen fills up many an empty corner which would otherwise be an eyesore, or it may be, as the months go on, we shall not be sorry to have it stand between us and the draught from some door or window.