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Show PAINTING UPON LACE. Effect Is Wonderfully Good, Though the Idea Is Not New. Something, although not strictly new, certainly worthy of notice, is painting upon lace for decorative and household purposes. The work is in imitation of old Cretan laces, which were made with colored threads, arranged ar-ranged as patterns upon a black or white ground. It is executed with water-colors, and can be used for sofa cushions and similar things, frills for old-looking portiers, to give them the air of antiquity, or for dainty bed or couch dressing. The colors are made fast by the use of a fixa:ive. and though they will not stand washing they will not spoil from atmospheric causes. To paint: Use veloutine as a fixative; moist water-colors, with Chinese white of body colors, red sable brushes, and work upon lace of good designs. Stretch the lace and pin it down to a drawing board, so that every part of it is quite secure. Select the colors to use, and where they are applied, and over every place that is to be painted lay a wash of Chinese white and veloutine, pass that over parts already sized with the veloutine, and then paint the lace with bright colors in a set pattern. Metallic colors, such as gold, silver and bronze, can be applied in the same way to the lace. See that the colors are thoroughly thorough-ly absorbed into the lace, and remember remem-ber the more broken and diversified the coloring the better the effect. |