Home decoration: art needle-work and embroidery; painting on silk, satin, and velvet; panel-painting; and wood-carving (1881)
Ruutz-Rees, Janet E. (Janet Emily), b. 1842 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 15
hich the geometrical proportions ofthe leaves are taken to form the branching lines or 10 HOME DECORATION. stems, while the design with which these are clothed,or supplemented, is only remotely derived from the nat-ural leaf, and is entirely original in conception and treat-ment. The geometrical… … \* Fig. 3.-Violets—Natural Forms. practice will enable the student of art needle-work notonly to design, but to recognize what are really true de-signs, correctly conventionalized, and what are simplynatural objects, naturally copied. Roughly speaking, GENERAL REMARKS. 11 there are two methods of…
Needlework · Handicraft
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