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Show I The Home Harmonious. t Stamping Designs on Furniture, j By Anita de Campi. TO any one who can do embroidery the feat of hand painting ornaments on furniture Is a simple one. It la ih easier than doing embroidery work, H far more quickly dono, and requires fl less skill and patience. H Hero is the secret of my discovery, H which brings furniture decoration with- H in the scope of embroidery workers. It H Is this: Patterns, such as shirtwaist em- M , broidery patterns, chemise patterns, pll- M low, dolly, and baby robe patterns, all M having flowers pictured on them that were H designed to be stamped off by means of H a hot Iron, on to linen, to be embroidered, H can just as easily be stamped off on to H furniture. Yesterday I spent the day Hl experimenting and painted ornamental H designs on the entire set of furniture m shown in the accompanying Illustration. H The whole thing was dry, hard, and fast, H - and ready for use within twelve hours. j Now I am going to tell you simply the M whole method of procedure First, you H seloct a pattern with sprays or wreath Hl or baskets of flowers on it the kind that H f transfer by hot iron process, choosing the Hl filled in embroidery, or " satin embrold- H ery " sort, In preference to the cross H stitch or more complicated kind, as the H jatln stitch patterns give tho best out- H lines. Some of these patterns come in M sprays, as many as thirty-six sprays to B a pattern. It is well to cut them apart H before starting to transfer them, then H with a tiny dab of library paste, here and there at the edges, tack them down to tho Hl places you mean to transfer them, t A little wreath is lovely around each 1 keyhole of the chiffonier drawers. Anar- HJ row running pattern meant to be em- j broldered on a collar is just the thing to H stamp across tho splats tho backs of H wooden chairs, etc. M H Of course, you cannot press the iron H flat on the pattern laid on the furniture, j as you do to transfer on cloth, for if you H lid the enamel might blister. You tako 1 ' Just the tip of tho Iron and run it along j the lines. The lines on tho pattern are H printed in colored paraffin, this melts on 1 to the wood you can seo it melt its im- H presslon on the wood as you go along. A H flat iron serves all purpose for this work, H though if you happen to have a soldering H iron It Is easier to use than a flat iron. Hl You run the nose of tho iron right ajong H the lines. Tho paper stlckB. "When'you H see that it is all done, pull this paper off. H and there aro your sprays of flowers on the H wood and the enamel is noUnJurod at all. H Care must be taken not to havo tho.lron 1 hot enough to scorch. M The patterns come in blue lines. These H aro for use on white or light grounds. H They also come in light yellow lines. Thesa H transfer quite as well on black or dant H grounds. M When you see tho leaves and petals j stamped you will realizo immediately that M It is really not as hard to All those out. 1 lines in with paint as St would b to All H them in with embroidery. M If you mlstruBt yourself, in the matter j of selecting colors there 'is always the H alternaUvo of filling In with a solid oolor. H deep blue, for example. You know ox- M actly how that is going to look, became M you havo seen it often enough in china- H Ware, blue on whlto. H About tho kind of paint and how to mix H it hand how to use it Choose enamel paint H that comes In small tin cans. It costs 15 H cents a can. Get five cans red, yellow. H blue, black, and white. Pour a Uttl of H each color- into-a-small -cup. Neatg-of shallow cups can be had from any art supply house. Pour a little whlto Into the blue and red if you want pink and pale blue, and mix blue and yellow In a separate cup to make green, and red and blue into a separata cup to make purple. Havo aa many separate cups as there aro shades and colors you may wish to use. If the paint thickens up beforo you havs finished your work add a littlo turpentine to it. Now begin painting. Fill in all tho Pink petals at ono time, then all the blue, all the green, etc. Uso a small sablo brush and bo careful to covor tho edgo of tho printed lino. Just as you would If embroidering. Fill tho colors In flatly. The less attempt that is mado at shading the better the result will be. Leave the stems and flno lines until tho l.i3t because be-cause the paint must bo thinned down for iheae. Have a good sized cup full of turpentine at hand and rinse tho brush clean in this every tlmo you change colora and w4plt-m.-& cloth. i Five tin of color are enough to paint several seu of furniture, because you only uso a littlo at a time. The cups can bo cleaned with turpontlno beforo the paint hardons. Enamolac paint is better than ordinary oil paint, as it Is not smeary. It dries quickly and is water proof and -does not smudge or rub. once it has hardened. hard-ened. J? Many decorators muke a mystery of this sort of work, and tho prico they charge for doing It is prohibitive. To be euro, if thoy croato original designs they are warranted war-ranted in charging woll for them, but many of tho embroidery- designs are lovely enough for tho avcrago room. Any ono who doubts her ability to do this work, beforo attempting to decorato her new enameled sot might try this schemo out on somo small piece. Nests of wooden boxes, the outsldo ono a littlo larger than a layer cake, with a number of smaller oncB inside, can bo had for M) cents. These aro good things to prac-tlco-on. I .' - ,- . An interesting point in the ensemblo of tho room Is that. If embroidery patterns are chosen for the painting, tho samo patterns pat-terns can bo repeated on tho embroidery. A washable cushion covor In white linen for tho chair scat may match tho painted chair back. And the same holds good for bedspread, bolster, shams, and dresser covers. :: AnMWara to Inquiries. MRS. H. J. S.: You certainly havo an exciting problem before you in converting a kitchen Into a living room. You are right aboit leaving the stripes of the paper running ctear up to tho ceiling. This will no doubt add height to tho room. Do not ueo a cut out border, but rathr a narrow strlpof contrasting paper or a wooden molding at tbe holght of thewall. The Idea of doing your two rooms nllkc Is quite correct, then after you havo moved in and aro settled you may wish to chango I " i about. I should have oven the borders alike. Let your side walls In the bedroom be plain and tho draperies rtgurtd; If the stencil Is simple the design would bo attractive at-tractive repeated' on the elde of tho linen bedapread and near the molding. "Invisible "Invis-ible " figures are not objectionable In a living room wall papei I find that figured papers arc really preferable to the plain; in places where the plastering is defective they effectually disguise the cracks. If the figures arfr not carried out in contrasting con-trasting colors thero aro no clashings with tho pictures In the room. Yes, the wicker chairs would be good and'EO would the gate leg table. Scrim curtains would be all right for your dining room. Let the draperies harmonize with the side walls. About the camera pictures, if you want them In your bedroom have your pictures framed and stand them on the' mantel iftvelf, dresser, or table. O. M. M.: Tho method of procedure In tho cnamollng of a varnished oak dresser Is to first ueo a varnish remover. Aftor tho varnish Is all removed, sand paper tho dresser lightly, painting with a good pure white lead, and when this is perfectly perfect-ly dry apply tho enamol. If you aro to have your dresser and bed In a Hgbt shade of bluo it would bo better to have tho aid walls pearl color, rather thancream color, If you, however, prefor cream color In your bedroom so that the bluo of tho enamol en-amol is tinged cream. Thie will make It a sort of turquolso rather than & clear blue, : H. J. L.: In your sun parlor 'lighted by moans of a large skylight I bellovethat white wicker wouldbe too glaring. If you uso green wicker and green lattice work you would detract In a measure from the plants, vines, bay trees, etc. which you expect to put into tho room. These, together, to-gether, with the grten rugs which you already have, make quite enough green as they stand. It would be better to have your wicker chair audi your lattice work I in gray to match the color of tho cement t I floor. Bright touches of color can be had .11 by the use of chintz cushions', etc 'll A. M. S.: I soo no objection to a slight '! variation in stylo of furniture which yoj'CT suggest using in ono room, provided vT- fjL harmonizes in scalo and material. S 1 E I m |