Today's DIY project is a simple, quick, self-explanatory idea to recreate a piece of 19th Century Victorian art decor for your home:
- the Victorian yard-long.

History: Just before 1900, lithography companies began making these skinny pictures as premiums they gave away for wrappers and 2 cents postage. Sometimes folded into Sunday newspapers, beautiful women standing in long dresses were pictured on a piece of paper 36" long by 8" wide.

Directions:
1) Acquire a print that represents Victorian times. Our image, "White Girl" is from the National Art Gallery by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1861.
2) Find a framed print at your local craft store with the correct size matting. (Measure ahead!)
3) Take the framed print apart from the reverse side substituting your own image.
4) Search Wikipedia for a history of your print, duplicate, and tape to the back of your image.
5) Finish with a brown paper backing and a rope picture hanging chord.
6) Voila! Your yard-long need not be to exact specifications. Enjoy!

Lulu Mae Maghan ~ staff writer/historian