Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 201
or Fret Saws. Persons who do not wish to go to the expense of a scrollor fret sawing machine, but who desire to do ornamentalwork in the making of brackets, or picture frames, or in- 176 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. laying work, can procure small hand scroll or fret saws atan expense of only a… … Fig. 92. better, by the hand scroll-saws. With these saws areusually furnished several blades and a number of designs.They may be procured at hardware stores where scrollsawing machines are kept, or of manufacturers. An ingenious boy with a few simple tools and an oldsewing-machine table, could…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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