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 262
Herring-bone Stitch. Herring-Bone Stitch.—This is a very popular stitch, asit makes a good appearance, and is adapted to a wide range of work. It is es-pecially appropriatefor joining seams,taking the place ofthe unsightly ridgemade by a fell. Thetwoillustrationso-ivea clear idea of themethod of… … Herring-bone Stitch. Design for aBorder. — Thedesign for a cor-ner will assistin understand-ing this. Therings and thediamonds aremade of threethreads of dif-ferent shades,while the an-gles are con-cealed by gold-colored silk, trnfst^jsjswnw 5?S5SSSS*S*BtSSSSSSSSS twrnvm f»SSJ*J
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