Beautiful homes : or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York : Henry T. Williams, Publisher · leaf 287
n) ; purse silk in two dark shades of chestnutbrown, light-brown silk, and sewing silk of different colors. The under cushion is thirteen and one-half inches square, and stuffed withhair, moss, or finely split corn-husks. The middle strip (made according to thepattern), is of scarlet merino, and we… … Fig. 298. green, fastened down with deep button-hole stitching of black silk edged withhalf-polka stitches of black and white silk; these extend alternately the entirelength of the strip. The remainder of the embroidery between these flowersand leaves are done in the three shades of brown silk in…
Decoration and ornament
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