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 119
e cut away and theremainder worked over with buttonhole stitch, makingregular square spaces. This work may be enriched by out-lines of arold thread and a linine of amber satin. 90 womans handiwork. For curtain decoration, large patterns of coarse brownpacking cloth cut out, sewed upon colored… … Macrame. (Old Italian.) be seen in every drawing-room ; now, they have slippedfrom the finders of the fickle fair, and rolled away to some EMBROIDERY. 91
Interior decoration · Embroidery · Painting · Decoration and ornament
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