Excerpt from Leisure-Hour Work for Ladies: Containing Instructions for Flower and Shell Work, Antique, Grecian and Theorem Painting, Botanical Specimens, Cone Work Anglo-Japanese Work, Decalcomanie, Diaphanie, Leather Work Modeling in Clay, Transferring, Crayon Drawing, Photograph Coloring, Etc

Place it ¿at upon a smooth board, and place upon it your paste board pattern, and draw around it with a fine lead pencil, While the leather is damp, cut out the leaf with a pair of scissors or knife. Small or large leaves may be made in the same way. Vein the leaves with the veining-tool (using it as a lead pencil in drawing upon the smooth side of the leaf, bear heavily where the strong indentations are re quired and lightly where the finer veins are wanted. Each leaf must now be bent and moulded to suit the position it is to occupy when the work is dune, they should now be dried quickly and hardened, this is done by applying a coating of the prepared stiffening. Great care should be taken to cover the edges, 8. Rather large camel's-hair pencil is the best to apply it with, the leaves will soon dry and be ready for the! Staining. Brush them over with the oak-stain varnish, thinly but evenly, a child's hair-brush is best for this. The stain must not be allowed to lodge in the veined parts, or the veins will appear too black. When the leaves are dry they are ready for use, if they are not dark enough, a second application of the stain will be needed. To Make Sim, etc. - Cut strips of basil one third of an inch wide and as long as the leather will allow, soak thoroughly in water, then roll up, the smooth side out, as round as possible, on a table or other smooth sur face. Dry quickly by the fire. If the stems are wanted, very stifi' wire. Should be rolled inside the leather. A prettier effect is produced by cutting the stem and leaf in one piece, and made to look llke a Vine. To Make Tendrils. - Tendrils are made the same as stems, using the skiver leather instead of the basil. Take a. Piece of the prepared ten dril the length required for Winding, damp.1t shghtly, and Immediately wind it around the point of a brad-aw'l, taking care to secure both ends of the tendril, dry by the fire, and remove from the awl, and a: dell cately formed tendrilwill be the result. The stems and tendrlls Should be hardened and stained in the same way as the leaves. Flowers should be made in as few pieces as possible. Roses, Dahhas, etc can be formed very prettily, the number of stamens should be carefully observed, and inserted in the middle of the ¿ower, using ee for the stems For Grapes. - Large-sized round peas are good, for film, from your skiver or old kid, rounds of the right size, strain and tie closely over the pea, winding tightly the loose ends of the kid to 10ml a stem, they should be stained and made into clusters, it is necessary to observe, in making the clusters, that the tying should be entirely concealed To Make Acorns. Procure some natural acorn-cups.

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