How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 315
be laidupon a table, face downward, andstrips of paper pasted across the joints(see Fig. 192), which will hold themsecurely together. If the work isneatly, done, when the gilt is applied all traces of the joints willdisappear. The decorations of this frame consist of a spray ofartificial rosebuds… … /wyJ^2 Section of Border for Decorated Frame. Figure 193 is thesection of a framewhich will look well onalmost any kind of pict-ure. It is made by-tacking a small ropearound the inside edgeand then coveringit and the framewith crumpledtin-foil, which, af-ter it is pressedto fit the rope, isbrought…
