| Fig. 241.—Fringe cut for tassel. | Fig. 242.—Winding top of fringe into tassel head. | Fig. 243.—Tassel ready for decoration. |
Fasten extra strings from top of window and door frames, and draw them taut along the walls, then tie the intervening flag-strings on these and the effect will be much the same as with picture-moulding, almost like a tent of small flags.
Hang a long, gay tassel on the wall at the end of each flag-string. Make the tassels of bright tissue paper. Take the once folded sheets of the variously-colored tissue paper as they come from the store, and cut them into long fringe, lengthwise of the folded sheets ([Fig. 241]), making each separate strand of fringe not less than one inch wide. Pinch the twenty-inch-length fringe together at the top, wind and tie it with a string ([Fig. 242]), allowing one end of the string to extend out at the top; wind farther down and tie again to form the head of the tassel four and one-half inches from the extreme top ([Fig. 243]).
Fig. 244.—Red paper folded for cutting design.
These large tassels tied to picture-hooks by eight or twelve inch lengths of string wound with gay paper and attached to the picture-moulding at the end of each line of flags make a fine finish and form a decoration for the walls.
Let your tables be of different sizes, and cover them with white cotton sheets folded in such a way that the sheet will fall within one inch of the floor at the front and at the two sides.
