Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — CHAIR PILLOWS. [ARTICLE]

CHAIR PILLOWS.

A chair pillow is one of the most comfortable as well as ornamental innovations of the day. The pillow may be made of any material desired to match furniture or drapery, but if this is not wished Turkish toweling will look well with anything or in any chair. Make the lining for the pillow of stout cloth or drill, twenty-four inches long and fifteen wide; fill with curled hair and fasten the ends securely. Work two strips, four inches wide and fifteen long, of cloth or felt, in any pretty design, and chain-stitch them on the right side of the pillow. If embroidery is too tedious, cut cretonne flowens and baste them on the strips, and embroider over a portion of them with silk of the same color, buttonholing the flowers around the edge. If the pillow is to hang curved a plait must be laid in the center, so that the middle of the pillow will rest midway down the back of the chair and the two ends higher on either side. Gather the ends and tic with a bow of ribbon and short ends. The edge of the goods may be worked in buttonhole scallops or finished with lace crocheted of worsted and silk. Suspend from the back of the chair with a heavy twisted cord and fluffy tassels.— Dorcas Magazine The Paris markets are the finest in the world.