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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1894
Page
3
A fashion feature outlines summer outfits with lilac blues greens and black as dominant colors. Descriptions cover butterfly sleeves, silky textures, and embroidered trims, plus white muslin graduation dresses and satin belts. Also notes Parisian styles favoring black and white patterns and various muslin and taffeta dress designs.
A historic craft note describes making a decorative piano scarf from cretonne fabric with cretonne flowers appliqued in satin and silk. It outlines selecting a suitable pattern, cutting flowers carefully, and lightly coating the wrong edges with mucilage for neatness.
Practical loom style notes describe cretonse applique techniques for flowers leaves stems and vines with stitched details and finishing edges. Also included are home cleaning methods for wallpaper tips using bread and cloth and a recipe for tender new peas served in a baked fluted cake center.
The article describes cheap screen making using pine or bamboo frames and tea chest matting, with hinge installation and cloth or matting coverings. It adds a note from the New York Herald about using fruit branches for dining rooms and floral subjects for sitting rooms. It includes fragmented recipes for a fish dish with cod and a lettuce with ham gravy, but details are unclear.
The article describes new hand and machine printed wallpapers for walls and ceilings, including striped papers for bedrooms and ornate surfaces in lacquer colors. It highlights patterns reproducing tile and stone effects, embossed leather backs, and blends that imitate marble, ivory, silk, and metal ceilings for refined interior decor.
The article notes silk striped wallpaper repeated in crushed intervals with delicate bouquet motifs. Striped fabrics with bold floral patterns and wattens effects with flower garlands are highlighted as attractive decorations. The garland motif is prominent and interwoven with floral stencils and embroidery in current interior trends.
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