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Show THROUGH SPOOK U4(-'ft! BETWEEN SHEs H : l lr7 f M ; T WRE AROUND a BOARDS FOR oP SHELVES W S fir BOREHOLES W NEAR CORNERS N X FOR WIRES v&' 1 : J Hanging shelves made of spools. match the brightest tone in , room color scheme-in our CS it was peacock blue. Thero 11 picture directions like these o ery page of Book No. for the Home Decorator. house is your hobby, it ? full of thrills for you. Dort 5 through the holidays with sh bg curtains or slipcovers. W illustrates every step new ones. Book 2: Noveltie, Embroidery, shows how M dozens of Christmas gifts l,. odds and ends of material. Bool h2lclnts eac- K 2 both books an interesting QU leaflet mcluded free. Addrw Mrs. Spears, 210 S. DesplainesS Chicago, 111. A letter received from a reader says, "I have found so many helpful help-ful things in your Book 1 SEWING SEW-ING for the Home Decorator, I wonder if you have any ideas on fixing up spools? I have in mind the spool book shelves and corner shelves they used long ago." It's probably the general revival of Victorian ideas in decoration that has started everyone thinking of spool shelves. We seemed: to remember that the shelves we had seen years ago in old parlors were put together with colored cords. We tried this but the shelves were not rigid as the cords stretched. So we used wire and the result has been a substantial set of shelves strong enough to hold reasonably heavy articles. A little less than 12 feet of wire was used for the shelves shown here. Two sizes of spools were used. Shelves, spools, wires and all were finally painted to |