SCREEN.
Use three pieces of cardboard cut from bottoms or covers of boxes.
1. Hinge the pieces together at their edges with thread, wire or ribbon.2. Cut out the slats at the top.3. Cut out the three large holes and gather in silk or muslin;orpaste pretty paper or figured cloth flat on the cardboard;orpaint flowers or landscape right on the cardboard.4. Paint the “wooden” parts gold or white.
1. Hinge the pieces together at their edges with thread, wire or ribbon.
2. Cut out the slats at the top.
3. Cut out the three large holes and gather in silk or muslin;orpaste pretty paper or figured cloth flat on the cardboard;orpaint flowers or landscape right on the cardboard.
4. Paint the “wooden” parts gold or white.
If the screen in your parlor you use,You might burnish it all with gold;Then colored silk so pretty and bright,On each of the sides you might fold.But if in the bedroom it finds a place,White enamel is better to use;Then for each side, instead of the silk,Some dainty white muslin I’d choose.
If the screen in your parlor you use,You might burnish it all with gold;Then colored silk so pretty and bright,On each of the sides you might fold.But if in the bedroom it finds a place,White enamel is better to use;Then for each side, instead of the silk,Some dainty white muslin I’d choose.
If the screen in your parlor you use,You might burnish it all with gold;Then colored silk so pretty and bright,On each of the sides you might fold.
If the screen in your parlor you use,
You might burnish it all with gold;
Then colored silk so pretty and bright,
On each of the sides you might fold.
But if in the bedroom it finds a place,White enamel is better to use;Then for each side, instead of the silk,Some dainty white muslin I’d choose.
But if in the bedroom it finds a place,
White enamel is better to use;
Then for each side, instead of the silk,
Some dainty white muslin I’d choose.
Screen.
Screen.
Screen.