Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
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e admiringeye of the lover of nature. Theres beauty in the sea. A lady of our acquaintance, who has been in the habit of spend-ing much time in collecting sea-weeds, tells us that she filled noless than forty little baskets with moss, in one season, for presentsto friends. AVe are so happy as to… … O make hair flowers we need livehair, that is, hair from the headof a living person; annealedwire, very fine; pearl or goldbeads, scissors, a pair of pinchers,a bit of whalebone, and knittmgneedles of three sizes. Brush thehair as smoothly as possible, andtie in bunches. Double a pieceof wire in…
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