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 311
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… … 5^-LACE LAMBREQUIN. -2=5= LAMBREQUINS AND TABLES. 277 Old Clothes-Horse Screen. The frame-work was ebonizecl, the hinges were made oftwo long strips of old-gold colored leather, the two makingthe length of the upright. They were tacked on with brassnails on the right side of one panel, on the wrong…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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