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 423
thepiano. Silk at this price is from 18 to 21 inches in width. The silk frontof a cottage piano generally measures a foot in depth, and 3 feet9 inches in length, so that for this style of instrument, if the silk be put inplain, one yard is sufficient ; if pleated or folded, as is more usual,… … The Economical Housewife. 377 join them together; proceed to pleat in tiny, neat, and uniform folds tothe required length, the finer the pleating the less silk will be requiredHaving pleated one edge, now pleat the other, which is done by simplycontinuing the fold down to the other edge of the silk…
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