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Show FLOWERS MADE FROM SILK. Hints for Those Who Enjoy Making Artificial Petals. Artificial flowers in silk nro quickly made, but require a light, artistic touch, and suro eye. For making a roso flvo inches in diameter about 30 Inches of taffeta or soft satin will pavo to bo cut on tho bias carefully, so as to produce, when tho various rleccs nro sewn together, a band four Inches wide nnd three and ono-quarter jards long. Fold It Into two; this strip is slightly gathered along the ruw edges Into scallops, which nre further defined by the cutting out Into shape of tho border Just a little below tho thread. Therefore no petals. The modeling Is executed In the samo waj as In crcpo flowers, with a single piece of somo shiny material. Now a threo-yard band has to be twined Into rows of waves round a heart, bought ready made or made at homo out of a piece of cotton wool covered with tho silk, nnd secured tc a thin wire, such ns Is need by florists In this deft turning of tho hand tc slmulato tho petals of a real blossom llos the art of the modeler. A cqlyx Is added when tho flower It Intended to ornament a vase, but It It dispensed with for a hat or drest trimmings, In which case tho cehfet at tho back Is filled and mado neat by a silk wafter bolng put on, across which aro fixed two wire stems or stalks, tipped at cither end with green leaves projecting effectively all around tho brilliant blossom, Clever workors occasionally do soma striking shading, which has to bo do-elded do-elded on when cutting out the band from cither a single piece or soveral, according to tho schome of shading contemplated. On n smaller scale showy carnations carna-tions for homo decoration are made with plain or shadod baby ribbon, with plcot edges tastefully gathered Into scalloped petals round a small heart or roll of baby ribbon fastened to a wlro wrapped with green silk paper nnd threadod with a calyx Green ribbon Is used for tho leaven A mcdlum-slzcd carnation tnkes.fout yards of serrated ribbon In Its model Ing. |