JULIET CAPS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 13

JULIET CAPS

The present craze at Home for beaded Juliets and Cardinal caps has suggested the revival of an old fancy of the kind introduced over a hundred years ago for hair nets intended either to merely cover the back hair or to eomo over the front, Tho feature of these whimsical affairs is the use of cucumber seeds, and somewhat resemble a shaped almond spangle. They are reported to imitate carved wood, and have aft elegant effect when intormingled with gold and glass beads of the largo sizo such as are mostly used for children's necklaces. Charming patterns can he, reproduced with these seeds, relieved by the sparkling of tho gold and glass heads. Tur?[uoiso blue offers an excellent match or tho gold beads and wood-coloured seeds, of which about 4oz. are required to reproduce this special pattern, with a 'good quantity of bluo and gold beads. Tho thin end of the seed is invariably threaded first with silk or linou thread the colour of tho seeds, if possible, and as strong as will hold the needle, which must pass easily -through the beads.

Begin with a needleful of thread about o.vard long, which is to.bo fastenodoft only when a fresh one has to bo joined, as the thread, passing from one point of the 6ecd to another, is nearly 111Visiblo. First round: Make a knot in tho silk, and thre/d; twenty-four seeds at the thin end, and as near the point as you safely can. Join into a ring by tving the thread and run tho needle through the thick - point of tho first seed. Second round: Thread in two new seeds, then another, of the twentyfour, then two more, and so on. (Bring tho thread through the thick part of olio of the seeds for the noxt round. Repeat this at tho beginning of every cirole.) Third round: Two new seeds, then through one of tho last round, threo blue beads, and through anoother of tho last round. Repeat. The next eight rounds may bo done in the same way, putting two more blue beads on in each place every new round, so that the fourth will have five, the fifth seven, tho sixth nine, and so on. The eleventh shows nineteen on in each division, while tho seeds, being arranged with the thin points of tho two now seeds between the thick points of two of tho last round, presents the appearance of heads of corn. _ Twelfth row like the preceding, but thread on two seeds in the centre of each line of beads, of which you will add one onlv. This produces two lines of ten beads each instead 1 of a single line of twenty-one. Thirteenth row: Put oil one bead, then the other seed, four beads, one gold,'four bluo, three seeds, four blue, one gold, four blue, and through the thick part of the noxt of the last-row. Repeat. Fourteenth row: Like the last; thread a blue bead between each' two of the three seeds, adding a blue bead between each two of the three seeds, adding a bluo bead on one sido of the gold, if necessary, to fit the head. In the next round increase on each side of tho gold; go on gradually increasing tho size' by, addingblue beads until tho cap is.large enough' for the head. Draw through .the part to fall 611 the neck a cord or elastic band in keeping with either the beads or the hair. Tassek and artistic hairpins make a good finish' to this coiffure adornment, which may be made in many bead-threaded conceits,-this suggestion being only intended to indicate how.tho cucumber seeds can be in'terblo'nded as spangles with beads. ■