Beautiful homes. Or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York, H. T. Williams · leaf 205
or so darker or lighter than the scroll; next, to work lines and figures,with silks of various bright colors, in cliain, point Russe, half-polka and sidestitching, in imitation of the Turkish embroideries. A still more simple meth-od is, to use the fine alpaca braids, with stitching on the… … Fig. 154. elegant border, and where sofa and chair-covers, lambrequins, curtains, andtable drapery are made en nuile in this way, it will be found not only an inex-pensive, but elegant garniture. Still another pretty border is made by cutting out deep scallops on one orboth edges of the cloth,…
Interior decoration · Decoration and ornament
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