Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1919 — APPLIQUE IS EVER POPULAR [ARTICLE]

APPLIQUE IS EVER POPULAR

Method of Applying the Decoration to Obtain the Most Pleasing Results. Applique continues to be as popular and as effective a method of exterior decoration as ever. There’s an interesting new wrinkle to the latest phase of it that you will want to know about. Usually the applied motifs are put on flat; unusually they are pinchtucked into position, which gives them the altogether effective look of relief work. For instance, there is the morning glory. It is cut generously large to begin with so as to allow for the pinch-tucks radiating from its center. And that very fetching idea isn’t limited to morning glories, by any means. There is many a flower that is more realistic for this extra bit of handwork. Leaves, too, are given more artistic prominence for a bit of tucking along their veins, and when the tucking is treated to some decorative stitching it becomes even more charming." 7 •.