Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1914 — TO MAKE PEARL BEAD BOWS [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE PEARL BEAD BOWS

Ornament Just Now So Fashionable If Easily Within the Resch of Any Clever Girl.

To make ; these double bows, which sell in the shops from $1.50 up, requires two strings of small pearl beads, costing 15 cents a string; some fine wire, costing five cents a spool, and some mallne, costing five or ten cents. String about one hundred beads on a piece of wire, leaving some free wire at each end. Divide the string into 50 beads each and take the free ends to the middle and wind them around, thus forming two loops. This serves for the outside of'the bow. The inside loops are made in the same way, with the exception that it only takes 75 beads. The piece which goes over the center and holds the beads together is made of two or three strings of beads of about five each. These are sewed to a small piece of cloth to give it body, and also that you may sew it to your bow of mallne. These bows are very effective also, of black jet beads on black mallne or ribbon. The larger the beads are the fewer it takes.