Beautiful homes : or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York : Henry T. Williams, Publisher · leaf 198
l, conventional- BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 193 looking flowers may be made with great rapidity, as also the chain-stitchingand loose stitches of the remaining parts. In making covers of this and similarpatterns, it will be found more economical to purchase the silk braid etc., by theounce and from a… … Fig. 145. the one the figui-es are cut from Cretonne or other cloth, and fastened to aground, by means of chain-stitches, the figures, etc , being arranged just as they appear upon the cloth in all the beautyof a shaded picture, whether it be apastoral scene, flowers, or other suchdesign; while…
Decoration and ornament
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