The “Roses” Motif In Satin Stitch

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 19

The “Roses” Motif In Satin Stitch

INEXPENSIVE DECORATIONS (Designed and written for THE SUN by Rosine Henderson.) IfRS. HENDERSON, the writer of this special feature to THE SUN, is a Parisienne now resident in New Zealand. She is a regular contributor to Parisian periodicals dealing with artistic designing for the home.

MODERN women who seek to decorate their homes without great expense will like the use of this motif, “Roses’* executed in satin stitch. In our times, wherever there is fashion and elegance, a light touch of embroidery adds an indefinable charm, and moreover, work done with one’s own hands expresses most intimately one’s personal ideas of harmony. The uses to which the motif “roses” may be put are suggested in the accompanying sketches.

Figure I. represents a purse of cloth, quite sober, for it is for the street, adorned with a band of a different colour, across . one corner—on this band the motif is embroidered. If the band is of wool, fine embroidery wool should be used; the satin stitch is simple—merely working over and over. As for colour, on a grey ground, red roses and leaves

in rosewood shade -would look well; on a fawn ground blue flowers w r ith soft green leaves.

We must pass to Figure 11., a purse for evening, small and narrow; this can be made very easily. It would be very nice to use silver or gold ribbon, and to do the embroidery in stranded silk io one colour, but in various tones, or alst> in wool. The effect of different materials, metal ribbon embroidered with wool, for example, is very becoming and original. The “roses’* would be also very charming on a blotter made of linen coloured “powder blue” or yellow and embroidered with cotton or silk in old rose or orange, the leaves being in greenish blue. The corners and the folding could he made of linen, darker in colour, and the folding ornamented with a black trellis (see figure III.). For birthday gifts, a problem always difficult to solve, the question w'ould be simplified bv giving a little “sachet** for gloves, bordered with ribbon quilted inside and tied with a bow. On one side cf the sachet the motif could be repeated twice. Velvet or washing satin might be used. Figure IV. expresses the above ideas. Fastis’, one could buy an ordinary wooden box and paint the roses in spray on it without difficulty if the wood is carefully polished with glas's paper; poster colour should be used. A large black or dark purple band round the box would be very effective.