Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — A HOME-MADE OTTOMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A HOME-MADE OTTOMAN.

Suggestions for a Piece of FurnrtJ for the Summer Home. The sugar barrel lends itselfl convenient uses, and at this seai of the year is especially of val The ottoman in the illustration s gests the mechanism necessary to manufacture and the appears] after completion. To make it, the barrel in two, three inches ab« the middle dividing line, allow: just eighteen

inches of a thirty-inch barrel fori height of the seat. With some clinch nails fasten hoop all around the lower edge of ti staves on the inside. This hoop w strengthen the lower edge of the i verted tub, and it is then ready] be upholstered and draped. There are a great many differs materials of inexpensive and gew quality that may be used to cov such pieces of furniture with, andj you have nothing on hand that d be used, then purchase a few yan of blue or gray denim, some figud cretonne, or other material of a sin lar nature that will wear well ai not wrinkle. Spread.curled hair thickly all ov the top of the barrel, and draw ov it some unbleached muslin or hea l cheese cloth, and tack it all aroui the top outer edge of the barn This will form a good cushion, ai over the top of it place a piece of tl covering material; tack it all aroui the edge of the barrel also, and tin tuft the seat in the following ma ner.

With a soft lead pencil mark on the top of the seat where want the buttons, and with a awl bore holes through the and through the wood top so point of the awl will penetrate to th®| under side of the wood seat. Make as many holes as you buttons; then turn the barrel and with the awl bore a hole side of eacli hole already made. obtain some metal buttons provide® with eyelets, and cover them with upholstery goods. Pass a long, stoiß needle threaded with strong string through one of the holes, through the seat pass the through the eyelet of a button, then run it down through the seafl| again, and through the hole the one that it was passed up through®| so that an end of the string will hang from each hole, leaving the ton on the top of the cushion. Secure all the buttons in a manner, and then tie the ends string together at the under side the seat until all the buttons been securely fastened, and the spit will be a tufted top, as shown the drawing. jjfl Hem one edge of several yards material for the side drapery, ancH| shir it on a string; tie this string® tightly around the top edge of th<® barrel and fasten it at intervals two or three inches with double driven into the wood; with gimp to match the draping and about three-quarters of an wide, cover the line where the top ofli the flounces and the outside of seat come together, and tack it with large brass oval-headed terer’s tacks, driven about two apart, all around the top edge, as a result you will have a very com]® sortable seat or ottoman, as shown inH| the illustration. '^R

BEFORE UPHOLSTERING.

AN OTTOMAN.