Craft: How to Make a Dog Collar


Make your favorite pet a Victorian dog collar.

 
Victorian dog
 

This 1850s daguerreotype features a perky dog (with a hand-colored collar) balanced obediently on a tassel trimmed table. [Digital image: Daguerreotype, hand-colored. American, c.1854. Courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.]

 

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This Victorian craft for a dog collar is from an 1872 Harper's Bazaar magazine. The collar consists of a strip of blue cashmere sixteen inches long and an inch and a quarter wide, which is ornamented, as shown by the illustration, with application figures of red cloth and with button-hole and herring­bone stitching of red saddler's silk. 
 
The appliqué figures are set on with point Russe stitching of red silk and knots of blue silk.

This strip is lined with red enameled cloth, and trimmed on one side with a box-pleated muffle of red worsted braid seven-eighths of an inch wide, which is set between the material and lining.

A button covered with blue cashmere and ornamented with an appliqué figure, and two loops of red worsted cord, close the collar. 

These loops at the same time cover the seam made by setting on two pieces of blue worsted cord each four inches long, and which are trimmed with clipped red worsted balls and small bells.

In the middle of the collar is an oval brass ring covered with blue silk, and on this ring is fastened the ribbon designed for the line with a button and button-hole.

The line or leash consists of a strip of blue cashmere seven-eighths of an inch wide, which is ornamented with point Russe embroidery of red silk and a piece of red satin ribbon an inch and a quarter wide, which is stitched on the cashmere strip.

 

MORE INFO:
Miniature Dogs: Pets in the Victorian Home
For a fashionable woman in Victorian England a pet miniature dog was as indispensable as an opera box or presentation at court.

Queen Victoria Dog Design
Free 19th century design for decorative pillows of Queen Victoria's dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Makes a great gift.

Victorian Dog-Cat-Animals in Needlepoint
Create lovely pet accent pillows to add a touch of whimsy to any sofa, chair or bed. Free downloads.

 

 

 

CRAFTS
HOW TO MAKE PILLOWS
STENCILS
SCRAPBOOKING
NEEDLEWORK
GREETING CARDS
TOY THEATER
DOG COLLAR
DOG PILLOW
HEART PILLOW
KNITTING
TATTING
PIN CUSHION
ABC DISHES
TEA SET
BERLIN WORK
FISHSCALE EMBROIDERY
PERFORATED PAPER
SEWING BASKET

 

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