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 271
^OtfO Fig. 43- Fig. 42. 244 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. inches long; plait up the long strip into sixteen doubleplaits, the other strip into eight plaits, and sew them on thethe cushion according to illustration. Now cut out the star-shaped figure in white cloth, pinking out the edges, and em- … Fig. 44- broider the design with colored braid and silk, and fastenit to the top of the cushion, so that*the points of the star titin between the plaits of the silk. Silk Counterpanes. Fig. 45 shows a quilted counterpane with the covertrimmed with neat embroidery. The inside may be of anydesired…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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