Old fashioned or partially worn out broché shawls can be used very advantageously for this appliqué work, by cutting out the principal figures of the design, and applying them to an appropriate ground-work.
Very pretty mats can be made of appliqué work. Use burlaps or brown Turkish towelling for the mat, and
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on that apply leaves cut from green, brown, and red flannel, or merino. Germantown wool or zephyr may be used to work them. Either powder the mat with the leaves or arrange them in a set pattern. Button hole them down, and work veins, stalks, etc., with long stitches. Finish at the ends with red flannel ornamented with Point Russe stitches, and line the whole with a piece of hemp or old Brussels carpeting. I have seen such a
