BATIKED RIBBON
The ribbon illustrated, page [78], was turquoise blue satin, 7½ x 36 inches.
The design was outlined and parts stopped out. The material was dyed in a blue dye-bath. The blue was stopped out in the flower shapes. The material was dyed in a yellow dye-bath. The leaves were stopped out. The material was dyed in a red dye-bath.
The decoration of the finished ribbon was turquoise blue, gray-blue and yellow-green. The background was dark olive green.
AN ILLUMINATED BLOUSE WITH PETROPLAST BEADS
A CAPE LINING
INTERIOR DECORATION
DOOR CURTAIN
The door curtain illustration, page [75], is a symbolic composition with a mystic wall and gate, and imaginary birds and a tree.
The color scheme is a black background, blue and purple tree, yellow and blue birds, a purple and orange fence and gate, and a foreground of blue, yellow and green.
The design was painted directly upon a good quality of silk, without guiding lines or waxed outlines. The painting was done very rapidly, perhaps in ten minutes.
The material was dipped several times, once in yellow, twice in red (more red was added to the dye-bath after the first red was exhausted), twice in the blue which was developed the same as the red, and at last back into the yellow. When the dyeing was completed the piece was thoroughly rinsed and the wax was removed.
The crackle caused through successive dyeings, the soft edges of the outlines and the blending of the background with the shapes freed the piece from the criticism often invited where colors are painted in large areas.