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 86
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 … Fig. 46. face divine presents difficulties which are almost un-conquerable, and the same may be said of the figure. There is absolutely no limit to the variety of materialsemployed for smaller screens. Banner screens, fastened 82 HOME DECORATION. to the mantel-shelf, are best arranged upon rings to…
Needlework · Handicraft
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