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 266
ety crimson. This should be worked with thestitches very close, and clipped quite long, the convolutionsof the comb being represented by using three shades of crim- DESIGN FOR BANNER SCREEN 239 son. As each stitch may be made different, the shading canbe perfectly done. The lower part, from the… … Fig. 41. ■ of the floss made of filaments of red and green. Clip thesea little closer than in the comb, and use more red towardthe comb. This, when skillfully done, imitates the flowerbeautifully and faithfully, in striking contrast to the hard, 240 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. knotted…
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