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 ORNAMENTAL BRACKET, VALENCE, CHAIR-BACK, ETC. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THE splendid colored pattern, which is given in this number, may be used, either for an ornamental bracket, chair - back, or valence, etc., etc. If used for a bracket, such as seen in the opposite column, you must take a common piece of pine wood, and cut it in athree- cornered shape, to fit the wall, the outside being rounded. The wood must be covered with a piece of damask, or some material to match the color of the furniture in the room : this is glued on to the wood. To make the gilt ornamental part economically, a piece of gilt moulding may be purchased at a trifle per foot, and this can be bent round to the shape required. To make the moulding handsome, it should be cut out of wood, and then gilded. These brackets are very fashionable now in Philadelphia and New York. The pattern should be worked in very bright colored wools, and the color of the grounding may be varied according to the taste of the worker. The design would look very well grounded in beads. Fine canvas and single wool should be used for a bracket; coarse canvas and double wool for window cornice, or a chair-back. Middling- sized canvas should be used for a valence for a chimney-piece, and

such valences are becoming again quite the thing. The edges of the work should be neatly turned in and tucked down, the work lined, the edges of the points finished on with a small cord, and each point ornamented with a tassel. A statuette,

or group of flowers, under a glass shade, looks very well resting on these brackets. Three points would be sufficient to make a bracket large enough for an ordinary sized room.

STITCH IN KNITTING FOR WOOL JACKETS, ETC. BY MRS. JANE WEAVER. THIS is a pretty and simple stitch in knitting, knit the first stitch and half the second stitch and will be found appropriate for any article together ; then the remaining half and the half for winter wear. Jackets have now taken an of the next stitch together ; these two rows form established place in the list of a lady's wearing the pattern. The pattern depends entirely upon apparel, and the warm, elastic, wool- knitted taking the right stitches in this row, which jacket is one of the most comfortable produc- shows itself immediately. The best way to knit tions of the Work- Table. The stitch we are now a jacket is to cut a paper pattern of the size giving is composed of only two rows of knit- required, in three pieces, the two fronts and ting, so that the difficulties of fancy knitting the back, and to work from these. To comare avoided. We will describe these two dif- mence, cast on sufficient loops for the bottom ferent rows : the first of which consists of put- of the back, narrowing at each side according ting the wool twice over the needle in every to the shape. The armhole must be formed by loop, knitting the first and last loop singly, and first casting off a few loops, and afterward, without passing the wool round the needle, as where required, casting on fresh loops and in the other stitches. The second row is to again narrowing toward the neck. The two 77