Show HOW to SEW RUTH SPEARS By ByRUTH WYETH Lo PLYWOOD SEAT t. t MARK THEN w e WITH KEY HOLE SA PIN i SEAM T AND PATTERN FOa CUT EAT ry SEAM CANE WITH BINDING sEAT INDING r ar YI NI SEAM OUTSIDE SEAM INSIDE THERE pHERE HERE were two of these old wood bent-wood chairs both with cane seats gone and a badly scarred varnish finish Get them out of my sight their owner said I 1 cant can't stand the thought of wood bent and forced into unnatural unnatural unnatural ural curves In the end she did didget didget didget get them out of sight and used them too The trick was done with slip covers made as shown The one you see sec in the sketch became a side chair for the living room dressed in richly colored cretonne in soft red and blue- blue green tones with deep wine bind bind- ings The legs of the chair were sandpapered and stained mahogany ny to tone in with the cover The cane seat was inexpensively re repaired re- re repaired repaired paired with a ready made seat of plywood reshaped to fit by first cutting a paper pattern to fit the seat of the chair and then using the pattern as a guide as indi indi- indicated indicated here NOTE As a service to our readers ICO of these articles have been printed In to five separate booklets No 5 contains 30 thus Illus Illustrations tr with directions also a description of o the other booklets To get your cops cop of o Dook nook 5 send order to MRS SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford nedford Hills New York York Enclose 10 cents for or Book 5 Name Address |