FISH BONE TEA SET
Reading edition
Materials Required:—
Large and small vertebrae of codfish, a little gilt and water color paint.
Fig. 73.
This little tea set is very dainty and is made of the separate vertebrae or backbones of large flat fish. When the bones are soft after boiling, they can be easily bent or cut into the required shapes, and the different sizes of bones used for cups or tea pot can be decorated with little patterns in gilt paint or water-colors.