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Materials: Grey American cloth; red
cloth; black jet beads and bugles; red worsted braid, three-quarters
of an inch wide; some strong wire; a cigar-box.
This basket is meant for holding
dessert knives. It consists of a common cigar-box nine inches and
two-fifths long, five inches and four-fifths wide, and two inches and
one-fifth high, covered inside and out with grey American cloth, which
is ornamented with embroidery worked in appliqué. The seams are made
in overcast stitch. The feet consist of four pieces of strong wire
three inches and two-fifths long. These pieces of wire are first
covered with wool, and then with jet beads; they are then bent into
loops, and fastened on at the bottom of the box by means of holes
bored into it for that purpose. The feet must be fastened before
covering the inside of the box. The inside of the basket is ornamented
with an embroidered pattern in appliqué, which must also be worked
before covering the box.
The leaves are made of red cloth, the
stems and veinings of black bugles. No. 160 shows the pattern in full
size; the flowers and leaves are edged with light grey purse silk,
over which small stitches in black silk are fastened at regular
intervals. Inside the box fasten a deal board covered on both sides
with American cloth, so as to divide the basket into two compartments,
and fasten on to this board a handle consisting of a piece of wire
seven inches long, wound round with beads. The basket is ornamented
with ruches of red worsted braid; between two box pleats of the ruche
a black bugle is fastened.
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