An elegant addition to almost any room is one of the beveled glass mirrors shown in Figs. 52 and 53. The frame is of pine or whitewood and covered with silk plush embroidered with arasene or with silk floss, arasene being much the best as the colors are better and the general effect more rich. The cuts show two very different designs, - one a vine of wild clematis, and the other a spray of dogwood; the former worked on deep Indian-red plush, and the latter on a very dark olive-green. They can be made of various sizes, but 10x10 or 12x12 for the glass is generally preferred. They are quite different in appearance from the painted frames so abundant in the stores, and which are usually very poor specimens of amateur art.

Fig. 52.

Fig. 53.