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 784
forms a double fichu. > One ofthese fichus, or capes, is placed on the head, the corner falling overthe forehead ; the other covers the shoulders. It will be requisite tomake some pleats upon the line which separates the actual hood fromthe cape, and also to fasten the hood under the chin by a… … Fig. 23.and sometimes with 732 Home Needlework. 1807. THIS PATTERN (Fig. 24) has a back made very large, thefront being exceedingly narrow—in fact, almost imperceptible. Theback, which is cut on the cross, through the centre, and the entire shaperounded, is drawn together by an exceedingly full…
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