Fig. 57.
TO MAKE AN ANTI-MACASSAR OF A SHEET OF PAPER.
Take a newspaper and fold one end transversely, so that the edge is parallel with one side, by which a square is obtained.
Fold this square to make a right-angled triangle; fold this to make another triangle, and so on until the last shape is an acute triangle.
The end A is just half as thick as the rest of the paper. Tear this off at the dotted line, by which the square of paper becomes a sixteen-sided figure, nearly circular.
Fig. 58.
To make the pattern, tear off the point of the folded mass, by which a central hole will be made in the whole piece. Then tear from the sides and the broad edge small pieces, varying in size, by which a certain pattern will be made. Once having found the proper points whence to remove the ground, such counterparts of lacework can be so rapidly and bewilderingly done that the spectators will be amazed upon your unfolding the paper completed. It is needless to say tearing of a common newspaper makes the trick apparently more difficult than the most elaborate cutting out of coloured tissues with scissors.
