Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 230
s of beech-nuts, acorns, etc.; card-board,coarse wire covered with brown tissue-paper, thin wire, brown paper. Copal var-nish, silver and gold dust, etc. The foundation of our model consists of card-board; it is twenty-two and two-fifths inches long, seven and three-fifthsinches wide in the center,… … Fig. 9. Lambrequin, two rows of scales cross-wise at the top; fill up the rest, beginning at the bot-tom, with the scales pointing downwards. The raised decoration is made in thefollowing manner: The large leaves are cut of card-board and covered with pinecone scales, beginning, at the apex of the…
Decoration and ornament
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