Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 106
,varnish with Copal. The grape-vine picture-frame here illustrated in Fig. 3, is constructed as fol-lows : Cut off four pieces of wild grape-vine, or cultivated, if you can get it,each three, four, or five feet long, according to the desired size of the frame. They can be cut in theWinter or Spring… … lengths a vessel ofand leave mhot water them until they are per-fectly pliable. Theymust then be placed to-gether and arrangedaround an oval mold.A soup-tureen, or a largevegetable dish, turnedupside-down, will makea capital mold, for theframe will slip off easilywhen it is dry. Thevines must be…
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