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Art decoration applied to furniture (1878)

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 184

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full under a standing ruffle that serves for cornice, with a stripof colored cambric passed through the hem, and the whole bowed backwith ribbons matching that strip. An unbleached sheeting bound witha bright border of print of some quaint pattern has a nice effect; and,indeed, there is hardly an… … Portiere in Modern Gothic Drawing-room. that are not really injurious to their effect. Where long curtains cannotbe afforded, simple lambrequins, a little longer on the sides than in themiddle, go far toward filling their place, and there are an infinite varietyof lambrequin shapes according to…

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