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 279
fringe of the same shade as the plush, re-lieved by pink silk double ruffs at intervals. The back iscovered with pink plush, and the whole forms a most beau-tiful chair and one that will not be ruined by reasonable use. [2491 250 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. A Pretty Work-Apron. A pretty little… … Fig. 50. Another design often used instead, represents a little girlplucking the petals of a daisy, with the words I do nt care what the daisies say,I know Ill be married some fine day. After the embroidery is done, a hem is turned all aroundand neatly hemstitched, the lower end turned up to form…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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