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 274
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… … Fig. 48. Linen Embroidery. Fig. 48 is an illustration of a tidy made of the new styleof embroidery on linen crash. Old ladies whose sight is fail-ing will find this very agreeable work. The stars should beworked in two shades of bright zephyr, while the divisionlines between the figures should be…
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