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 83
crewels and silks, is very effec-tive. Such a screen is admirable in a passage, or rounda bedroom door. Peacocks have always been favorite sub-jects for screen designs, but, to be at all desirable, theform must be strictly conventionalized, and the back-ground dark, to soften the brilliant colors… … Fig. 43. with in such infinite variety in the many articles adornedby them, that suggestions regarding them are needless.As a rule, each division of a Japanese design has a distinctend and meaning, although to the uninitiated the pat-terns have a bewildering disorder; but a little study shows…
Needlework · Handicraft
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