USES FOR TORTOISESHELL.
. Tortsisosholl is: enjoying So great a revival that it is moro popular now than it -was in its 'tot palmy ' days,whenGeorgia beauties, and caifly l-Victorian belles, tore' those big .carved combs 'to set -oif thiiii 1 daiilty. heads (says „-a writor in an kutvfalmn paper). Wo have plenty of tortolscshcll within easy access, , and ono. recognises the . possibility of development in a Ideal industry. The - inlaying of tortoiseSholl With gold, silver, and jowels is something well wjthin-,the,:powers of many_ members-'of our 'budding Arts and Crifts Society. XJmbrell a and parasol: handles become : daily moro elaborate, and; foritho best of these c&rved and lillaid tortoiseshell is.being lately used; Goldmounted bolts, writing casos, and trinket boxes afe all boingiinadovof tortoiseshell,-while for the fittings of the best dfossing; cases tho same thing is enjoying a quite unprecidcntod vogue.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 4
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138USES FOR TORTOISESHELL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 4
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