CAPUCHIN
HOOD .
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER.
THIS exceedingly comfortable and cozy hood may readily be made by strictly following the accompanying diagram. For material, cashmere, flannel, or silk, may be used ; or to make a very pretty and dressy hood for the opera, use sky-blue, or rose-colored Florence silk, covered with black dotted lace ; edging this with a black trimming lace, instead of the velvet ribbon seen in the design, which is the most effective finish for the cashmere ones. The one-half of the head-piece is given, and denoted by the dotted lines in the diagram, where the number of inches is correctly given for the half of the head-piece. The half of the
cape is shown by the straight lines, and number of inches given. Follow these explanations and the diagram, and you cannot fail to have a well-fitting hood. It is always best to cut out of some old muslin, and fit to the size of the head . In the front piece, where the shotr parallel lines are seen around the face, slits are to be cut and worked in button-hole stitch, for the ribbon to pass through, which draws the front to fit the face ; they are two inches apart, and sixteen in all around the entire front-by that we mean sixteen groups, two together, as seen in the design. The whole is very pretty as well as useful. 381
