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Now take one-quarter of the measurement between C——D, Figure [120], and mark it on your top line, so that half of it lies on each side of your centre line E, thus the distance between C——D is eighteen inches, one-quarter of it is four and one-half inches, and two and one-quarter inches on each side of the centre line locates E1 and E1 four and one-half inches apart.
Now take the distances recorded between C and E and E and D on your sketch, and mark these distances outward on the top line from E1 and E1, which will give you the size of the top of the festoon and locate points C and D on your pattern. Mark F about one-quarter of the distance from E to X on your pattern (Figure [118]); rule from F to E1 on each side, A1 to C and B1 to D, add pleating allowance, as dotted lines on raking sides of festoon, hollow out the U-shaped marked at E, as dotted line, round out the bottom of festoon, and cut out the pattern, shirr the edges from E——1 around to E——1 on a stout thread, and pleat the raking outside edges up as an ordinary straight festoon. (See explanation in chapter on French festoons.)
The ruffle which surmounts the drapery and forms a trimming at the edge of the canopy (Figure [113]) consists of a piece of material pleated in such a manner that the pleats are smaller at the bottom than at the top. It is made separately, and either joined to the drapery or put on over it. The size and number of the little cone-like pleats are matters of personal taste, and the principle of making is the same for all sizes and shapes.
On a fair-sized piece of paper draw out exactly two pipes and the space between as you desire it to look when finished (see Figure [121]). Continue the side outlines of the pipes downward until they meet, as A——A. This, of course, will be nearer or more distant according to the flare of the top of the pipe. Place point of dividers at A, and using the length of the pipe as a radius, strike a quarter circle through and on each side of the top of the pipe, as line B——B; now draw perpendicular lines passing up through the centre of each pipe and at right angles to the straight bottom line of the ruffle.
Place one point of dividers at C, where upright line intercepts the circling line, B——B, and with a little more than D——D as radii, sweep to cross the line B——B on each side; place dividers at the point where your sweep crossed B——B, with the same radius, and strike another line to cross B——B and locate E, and rule from E and D to A on each side of the pipe; with dividers at A, and with the bottom of the pipe as a radius strike another quarter circle as H——H, the points where dotted lines D and D cross H——H locate G——G, and where dotted lines E and E cross H——H, F——F are located; mark the place where the perpendicular line crosses H——H as X, which is shown on the middle pipe, and the pattern is ready for punching.
Note instructions for punching pattern of Figure 107A in chapter on archways, and follow the same procedure with this pattern, punching points E——D——C——D——E at the top, and F——G——X——G——F at the bottom. You will notice that letters E——D——D——E——F, G——G and F outline the pipe and show the lines for folding, while the space enclosed between C——C——X——X is the pattern of the plain piece between the pipes; now by shifting the pattern as explained for Figure [107B], in above mentioned chapter, and marking through the perforations you will have a pattern outlined by the same letters as Figure [122]; rule from point to point and you have the complete pattern of one pipe and the space between it and the next one, by repeating this, as shown in Figure [122A], you may make the ruffle any required length, stiffen with wiggin holland or buckram and pleat as indicated by lines in pipes, the shaded portions of Figure [122A] going to the back of the pipe, and the points C E——C E and X F——X F meeting and fastened together. The completed ruffle is now sewn to the top of the festoons and the seam finished with a cord, as Figure [113].
Figure [114] illustrates the application of straight top festoons to a molded canopy frame, the roof of which is shirred to a centre in sunburst effect.
Figure [115] shows a ruffle or piped heading similar to Figure [113] with larger spaces between the pipes, and the method of detailing the pattern is the same as already explained.