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 280
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… … rg- 5 Hair Receiver. Fig. 51 is a novel and pretty hair and hair-pin receiver,made of No. 12 satin ribbon of two colors interwoven in a 252 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. sort of checker-board pattern, as seen in the engraving. Apiece of card-board in the center forms a partition, on oneside of…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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