albums, facticities and fictions ii (Elements of a photograph album xi / Elements of photography viii) "BACKGROUNDS— HOW TO PAINT AND ARRANGE THEM.FURNITURE, &C.Any old kitchen chair may, for a few pence, be made to do service in place of an elaborately carved and expensive one by straining thick coarse brown paper over the back and front, and pasting the same to the chair. When it has dried itself thoroughly tight, mark the pattern out with vandyke brown ; put the projecting ornaments on with pieces of cut-out mill- board ; stuff a large, broad-patterned, red and white cotton pocket handkerchief for a cushion ; sew two tassels to the same, and place on the seat— when, for a few pence, and a little ingenuity, you will have a chair as sketch A, transformed into a chair as sketch B. High-backed chairs, lowbacked chairs, or any style of chair, may, by the addition of profile pieces of millboard, and the dexterous use of vandyke brown and the brush, be transformed into serviceable and ornamental pieces of photographic furniture. Ottomans, foot-stools, and similar appendages to the chair may be constructed in the rudest manner of pieces of rough wood,or of old boxes, covered with any figured stuff, as calico, chintz. If a suitable contrast of colours is secured, a pleasing variety of pattern will be obtained." (THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS, Feb 24 1860 and see adjacent issues)
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