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 85
Fig. 44. been representations of the human figure in action; but,although great results have occasionally been obtained, 80 HOME DECORATION. and good effects produced, such representations are verydifficult, and a few stitches out of place here or thereproduce such lamentable results that, as a… … Fig. 45. altogether. In ancient embroidery, we are accustomedto the stiff, conventionalized features of the actors in the SCREENS. 81 dramatized scenes; but in our more natural epoch, unlesssomething fanciful is connected with it, the human
Needlework · Handicraft
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
