Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 178
-rpr^^^5^- % Pearl Embroidery %^ =rr=—; =—^ir -s * dr^jg^yTb——» ^DN VELVET..^ … N the imitation of pearl, nothing has yetpresented itself so favorable to the writeras the beautiful and new method of pre-paring fish scales for embroidery. Youmay take the scales from a large size fish,the larger the scales the easier they are tohandle. Lay them in salt water for a fewhours,…
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