Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 210
probability ofthe color running, which, however, it will do under any circumstances if laid ontoo moist; and the grain, if prominent and handsome, destroying the effect ofartificial ornament, nature being in that, as in everything else, unapproachable.The best surfaces are those of white maple, not… … Fig. 5. Top of Boxes 6 and 7.We give here a suitable subject for the style of art in a salad-spoon and fork,of which the parts painted are made of maple, the remainder of plamtree-wood.The two parts are usually made to unscrew for convenience of washing. The 208 HOUSEHOLD ELEGANCIES. design is…
Decoration and ornament
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