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 273
Fig. 4& 246 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. tween the tabs may be filled with lace plaited, as in the cut,or with embroidery. … Fig- 47- Tatted Doyley. The tatted doyley shown in our illustration, Fig. 47, is sodistinctly marked that it does not need an explanation to thoseskilled in the use of the shuttle. The tatting, which is com-posed of double and pearl stitches, should be worked as seen LINEN EMBROIDERY. 247 in the…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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