WORK COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1896, Page 570

WORK COLUMN.

A very dainty chair indeed may be manufactured by enamelling the wicker-work pure white, and choosing your draperies from one of the many tapestry brocades and edge it with a silk fringe to match. This is sufficiently ornamental for any drawing-room, and a pretty combination also consists of gilded wicker-work, black satin, and choux bows of yellow. If the chair has to be devoted to a male occupant the latter may be used, as it does not show the wear and tear of black garments.

Another kind of wicker-work chair (here sketched) is made of green rushes plaited into a shell-shaped back, and as it is sufficiently decorative, requires nothing but a well-fitting cushion to sit upon, and another of a freelance description, which can be adjusted to suit the curves of one’s back. Near it stands a little Moorishshaped stool. one of the newest reproductions in white wood. Of course, we are quite used to that in mother-Q*-pearl or Oriental lacquer work ; but this simply shows what a pretty little table may be made by choosing one of this shape, and decorating it entirely with the various coloured wood stains which sre ordinarily used for the so-called • marquetry * decoration.