Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — OF BAMBOO AND FILET LACE [ARTICLE]

OF BAMBOO AND FILET LACE

Attractive Muffin Stands Worthy to Set Beside the Daintiest of Tea Tables.

Daintily fragile looking yet perfectly reliable are the new muffin stands of bamboo and filet lace. The three legs which extend upward form a frame of such extreme slenderness that it seems too ethereal for ordinary use. Nevertheless It is stout enough to support four shelves of graduated Blze made of tightly drawn and closely woven linen cords covered with mats of embroidered filet net edged with filet lace. These mats, being three-cornered, and tied to the legs of the standard by narrow white ribbons, are readily detached and cleaned. And although the network of cording under them looks delicate, It Is strong enough to support a china plate piled high with tea cakes. The stand has the usual high-arched handle also of bamboo, and the whole affair Is the lightest thing of its kind. Moreover, it Is not difficult to make as any carpenter can cut the bamboo sticks so that they will stand evenly and firmly while fingers deft enough to embroider fllet mats should be able to weave and adjust the cording shelves.