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 309
Odd Fan Screens. The frame is made of two uprights of bamboo fishingrod joined at the top with a piece of bamboo about two 276 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. inches in length, neatly glued and tacked in. The uprightsare cut off within about four inches of the floor, and threeshort legs are… … Fig. 61. of ebonized wood, or a little Japanese tray or box-cover,forms the front of a block in which six Japanese fans areset. The handles have to be somewhat cut off so as to fitthe holes and radiate like the petals of a flower. A doublepurpose is served,—a screen in winter and a fan stand…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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