General Instructions
The front legs of chairs, the legs of tables, and the backs of furniture must be neatly joined together by narrow strips of stamp-paper or adhesive tape. To do this, cut a strip of the right size, crease it down the middle, and stick one side. Allow this to dry, before you fix the other.
Wherever in the pictures there is a dotted line, it means that the paper is to be folded there. It will be easily seen whether it is to be folded up or down.
Before the furniture is folded it should be painted. Wood, iron, brass, and silk can all be imitated in color.
In cutting out small spaces of cardboard—as between the bars of a chair—lay the card on a board, and keeping your knife, which should be sharp at the point, against a flat ruler, run it again and again along the lines you want to cut, until you have cut through. If your furniture is made of paper, the spaces can be cut out with finely pointed scissors, taking care to start in the middle of the space, for the first incision is seldom a clean one.
Kitchen Table
(Cut out the oblong parts marked AA.)
Kitchen Range and Kitchen Chair
(A is turned up to form a shelf for saucepans; B is glued down over the back.)
Screen
(To be made of one piece of paper folded into three equal parts and cut out in accordance with the illustration.)
Various Pots and Pans
(Under part to be folded back for a stand.)
Dining-Room Table and Cloth
Sideboard
Sofa and Arm-Chair
(The corners must be fastened to the sheet by very narrow strips of paper.)
Wooden Bedstead
Wardrobe
(Join the sides AB and AB, and then bend the top down, glueing the flap C to the back of the wardrobe.)
Dressing Table
Washstand
Rocking-Chair, Towel Rack, and Chair
Child's High Chair and Cot
(In the chair the lines AB and BA must be cut. In the cot the four pieces marked A are cut out on their sides and bent down to form legs.)