artistic home : a perusal of which will give the modern housewife a hundred different ideas for the beautification of the home; every illustration a new thought, The
A 1903 trade catalogue issued by the Barnard, Sumner, and Putnam Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, showing drapery and interior-decoration schemes to middle-class American housewives. Pen drawings set swagged window treatments, canopied beds, mantel lambrequins and portiered doorways inside Art Nouveau ribbon-and-tendril borders, offering line-only furnishing motifs, fabric fold conventions and decorative frames for reuse.














