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 313
a band togo round the table, and the edge could be trimmed withworsted fringe. I have seen a half-moon-shaped tablecovered with dark blue cloth, and with a fall of worstedembroidery which was worked in subdivisions by half a 278 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. dozen different friends. A clover-leaf… … Fig. 62. longer, affording an excellent opportunity for decoration,and adding, of course, to the cost and labor of making. This cover is of fawn-colored cloth, ornamentedelaborately on the ends in application embroidery. ANTIQUE FURNITURE. 279 The design figures which look dark in the…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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