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rnament. (b) What is your idea of ornament applied to garments? (c) Give some errors in ornamentation not named in text. 7. Cut from magazines illustrations showing your idea of good and faulty ornamentation in dress. Give reason for your opinion. 8. Illustrate in some way, either by picture, drawing, embroidery, braid, or stitching, some design appropriate for ornament work on neck or sleeve. 9. Where should ornament be placed, and why? 10. (a) Give your idea of appropriate design on textiles. (b) The advantage and disadvantage of plain materials. 11. Make a color card of silk, wool, paper or raffia showing colors that contrast. (b) Colors that harmonize. 12. What colors do you find satisfactory for your own wear, and why? 13. What materials are best suited for infants' garments? (b) What can you say in regard to children's clothing? 14. What is your opinion of the care of clothing? (b) What experience have you had in cleaning (a) cotton, (b) wool, (c) linen, (d) silk, (e) velvet? 15. Do you consider it economy to repair garments? Can you suggest better methods than those given in the text? 16. If possible make some garment, shirt waist, skirt, or simple dress while studying this lesson and describe in detail how you went about it, the result, time taken, total cost. Tell why you selected the design, the color, the material. 17. Have you found the ready made garments satisfactory in underwear and dresses? 18. Tell of some of your failures in dressmaking and give the reasons for your lack of success. 19. What methods, new to you, have you tried in connection with this lesson? What questions have you to ask? 20. Can you add any suggestions that would be helpful to others in this work? 21. Wherein have the lessons been of practical value to you? 22. _For Teachers._ Draw up an outline for a course in sewing to combine two considerations: (a) adaptability to the child's interests and capacities, (b) orderly sequence in the technical part. Note: After completing the answers, sign your full name. REFERENCES: ORNAMENT AND DESIGN Bachelder--Principles of Design in America. ($3.00.) Brown--History of Decorative Art. ($1.25.) Carter, Mrs. H. J.--Historic Ornament in Color. (15c. a sheet). Prang. Clifford--Period Decoration. ($3.00.) Crane--Claims of Decorative Art. (Out of print.) Crane--Line and Form. ($2.25.) Daniels--Teac
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