Woman’s handiwork in modern homes, by Constance Cary Harrison; with numerous illustrations and five colored plates from designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina Emmet, George Gibson, and others (1881)
Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920 · [New York] C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 116
in scroll patterns with birds, foliage, flowers andodd animals. A table-cover taken from this treasury is ofcream-colored cotton stuff, with a running embroidery offlowers in colored floss silks, the border of darned nettingrevealing many quaint shapes of bird and beast, and whatis meant to be the… … 88 womans handiwork CUT-WORK, OR POINT COUPE. Cut werke was greate both in courts and townes,Both in menes hoddis and also in their gownes. —Chronicle of John Harding, 1470. THERE seems no limit to the variety of ornamental de-vices figuring under the name of cut-work. Accord-ing to Mrs. Bury…
Interior decoration · Embroidery · Painting · Decoration and ornament
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