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 94
d shape of that to be covered. Upon this board thesame kind of velvet is tightly stretched, and the hang-ing, having been arranged to fit it exactly, should benailed on with invisible tacks, over which a narrow gimpof maroon-color might be fastened with brass-headed nailsabove each flower in the… … 90 HOME DECORATION. good if the color of the velvet were dead gold, and thepattern worked in bright yellow and green silks. When the chimney-piece is long, the center depres-sion is an improvement; otherwise, it may be omitted,and the velvet cut straight along. A heavy fringe is afavorite addition,…
Needlework · Handicraft
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