Household elegancies : suggestions in household art and tasteful home decorations (1876)
Jones, C. S., Mrs, Williams, Henry T · New York : H. T. Williams · leaf 84
hey are made as follows: Obtain a rough pine skeleton of a bracket; shelf, eighteen inches long, twelve inches deep, and one inch thick, cut in ornamental shape Fig. 3; also, a bottom piece sawed out of inch wood of the shape Fig. 4. Cover these with white muslin or linen, the whiter the better,… … drying under a heavy weight, cut from it a number of rose-leaves of varioussizes, with the molds used for wax-work, pressing the muslin while damp, uponthe wi-ong side so firmly that each vein and mark is plainly indented; add white-covered wire for stems, either sewing them or pasting between the…
Decoration and ornament
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