Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 218
rt of the curtain-rods were also impracticable on account of the ex-pense, a wooden scroll was designed, which she herself cut out with abracket-saw. These little saws open another channel for womans industry. Thedifficulty heretofore has been the miserable patterns in the shape of whatis called… … Fi<r. 45.—A Scouce. 214 MODERN DWELLINGS. may be produced by means of the scroll-saw. For instance, take veneerof different colors—say rosewood and holly—with a vine or geometricalpattern traced upon its surface, and let the two be sawed out at once. The leaves of the holly are then se-cured…
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