TISSUE PAPER MATS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 12 February 1884, Page 2

TISSUE PAPER MATS.

A lady writer in the household thus describes the way to make a pretty mat out of tissue paper. Open a sheet of tissue paper, fold in centre lengthwise once, then fold the other way twice, and cut. There will he six squares. Fold across coruerwise three times, cut a deep, round scallop, now unfold. You have six rounds of eight scallops each. I use four aheets of green tissue, different shades, dark to light olive is best. Fold and cut each sheet same as first. Take one round of the paper, fold one scallop lengthwise in centre on one wire of a common hair pin, holding tho head of the pin in tho right hand press in, gather the paper with tho left hand, towards the right, without breaking the paper shirr each scallop in r 1 this way, then take one round of eachBhade from dark to light and tack together in the centre, and you will . have six handsome mats. Now. take some rose colored paper, red, pink, yellow, and cream whito, told and cut in the same way three rounds of each color, size three inches each, and shirr in the same way. Take a piece of yellow paper on a wire, and you have a handsome rose. Place equal distances apart one of each shade around the mat and fasten in place. They make pretty mats for fairs, You want the fine imported tjjgw paper. •