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Our homes; how to beautify them. One hundred and fifty engravings (1888)

[Martin, George A.] d. 1904 · New York, O. Judd co. · leaf 182

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dark violet tissue-paper fourpieces of the shape seen at a in Fig 154 ; take two sta-mens, b, cut oif one-quarter inch from the top, twistaround them one end of the fine wire used for the stem. HINTS FOR DECORATIVE WORK. 179 and pinch over it a tiny bit of wax—only enough tomake the first round of… … no. 154.—PARTS OF A VIOLET. ish the flower with a small calyx, seen at c, made of darkgreen paper, or, better still, of wax. For the stem cuta strip of green paper about one-eighth of an inch wide,twist around the wire, and, to fasten it, turn up the endof the stem a little.

Fancy work · Interior decoration

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