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 407
before they are sewed on. A Design for Fish Scale Embroidery.—Our illustra-tion gives a very pretty design. The ground is of maroon-colored silk. Work the stem in old-gold silk twist. Theleaves and roses are made of scales. In making the leaves, the silver wire must be carried across the scales to… … t5 claws ses, sew on the scales first, the holes; the laps over the so with the the center which may with a few the flower be answer. The as follows: The ofle black bead worked and claws are the same as the stems. For the wings, the scales are sewed onwith silver wire carried across, the different…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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