Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting ... moss work, papier mache...wax work, shell work...enamel painting, etc. (1871)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), d. 1888, Day, Henry · Boston : J.E. Tilton · leaf 308
green silk floss.Two or three such stalks of different lengths are sufficient. Satin beads wired with a guitar string, and wound in pairs toform sprigs, -with now and then a tendril, are beautiful for eveningdress. In almost every family, enough shells, small and appropriate, canbe found to make… … WILD TAMAEIND SEED WORK. HE wild tamarind seeds are broughtinto our market from the West^^ Indies. They are about the sizeand color of apple seeds, but hardas stone. We tried various chem-ical solutions to soften them, butin vain; finally, we soaked themin air-slaked lime some eight orten hours,…
Handicraft -- 19th century · Decoration and ornament · Decorative arts
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