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 270
re also inrequest. These have thebottoms occasionally madelambrequin fashion. Forshort bedroom blinds no-thing is better than plainbook muslin. Two slendercanes, or peeled willowwands, make better rods forthese than either tapes, wire,or in especial the ugly flatpieces of brass sometimesadopted.… … CANE BLIND. Artistic Homes. from about half a crown to four shillings per superficial foot. Driedferns, sometimes coloured, and fixed on glass are occasionally used aslow blinds, but the practice has little to recommend it. 360. CURTAINS. For the kinds of curtains best adapted to thedifferent rooms…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
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