Beautiful homes : or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York : Henry T. Williams, Publisher · leaf 252
end where the gathers are collected, and from these the cordextends which holds the bolster over the chair. When the muslin cover becomessoiled, it is easily removed and washed. A tasteful mode of embellishing themuslin tidies for these bolsters is by means of spray-work, which if done… … Fig. 241. 248 BEAUTIFUL HOMES. under it a half-inch depth of cotton or wool, making it quite uniform in thick-ness throughout, then quilt in diamonds one inchlong on a sewing-machine, using maize-colored silkfor the upper stitches, if done on a AVheeler & Wil-son, (or any lock-stitch machine,)…
Decoration and ornament
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