Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 1029
for a little at their resemblance to nature, butwe soon weary of them. In large rooms, however, it must be allowed,they and the leaves massed together, do sometimes produce a fineeffect from a distance, as a focus of brilliant colour. A wax cross, with a trailing vine of passion flowers and green… … TOOLS FOR WAX-WORK. 1831. PINE CONES. These are much used for decoration, and arevery handsome when varnished, but if glued on they are liable to falloff after some time. They can sometimes be tacked on. They shouldbe mixed with other things, and for most purposes the smallest are theprettiest. The…
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