Some pictures of quaint things which are sold at the sign of the "Popular Shop" : and a few words about making the house beautiful with homely material. (1898)
Joseph P. McHugh & Co. (New York, N.Y.) · The Company, New York · leaf 15
THE ROUNDABOUT TABLE. Perhaps a little description of the way in which ourwicker furniture is made may be of interest. In the first place,the material itself comes from York County, in Pennsylvania,where are grown the longest and straightest willow sticks I haveyet seen. … TheTrwbrvCh&r These sticks are placed in a tank filled with water, inorder that they may become thoroughly pliable ; then, as asanitary measure, and to render them clean and white, thebundles while still damp are subjected to fumigation by being [placed placed with burning sulphur in an…
