" CASE
FOR
SILK
BUTTONS .
BY MRS . JANE WEAVER. -
nd 20th MATERIALS.-Little pieces of colored velvet, wool, or silk stuff, silk braid, steel beads, white cardboard. The case, which is represented in No. 1, is in the form of an egg, and consists of six cardboard parts three inches and threequarters long, pointed at the ends, and one inch and a half broad in the middle, and may be easily opened by a light pressure of the finger. The outside may be of the same, or different colors. Each piece is bound with silk braid of a contrasting color, ornamented with steel beads ; the separate parts are carefully sewn together on the wrong side. The two end parts falling over each other, firmly close the
Hang form th
case. Bows are placed at the sides, also made of braid, and drawn out and tied up at the ends
to make a fringe tassel. open.
No. 2 shows the case
CROCHET INSERTION . INITIALS FOR MARKING .
T band 7f
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MI 151
