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Title: Our homes and their adornments;
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Varney, Almon Clother, 1849- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Home economics Interior decoration
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., J. C. Chilton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 54- washed, and replaced again without the usual damage to thewall by tacking. The designs on them are also new andpretty. A News Rack. Fig. 55 is a news rack in bead embroidery. The frameis of gilded wood, and the foundation for the embroidery isof deep maroon silk plush. The design of maple leaves isembroidered in metal beads in various shades of olive-greenand brown, red-brown and yellow. The work is done verymuch the same as crewel work, a silk thread being used,and the beads strung on four or five at a time to form a longor short stitch and of such colors as required. The beads canbe procured of every color. ■2o4- OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. Three-Cornered Table. Fif^. 56 represents a three-coinered table, the frame ofwhich is of gilded wood. The tfjp is covered with shadedblue plush, ornamented with a spray of wild clematis, em-broidered in beads, the Bowels in steel, and the leaves incut-gold. The sides are draped with shaded blue plush,
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Fig. 56. caught up in the eentei- of each side by a large silk pomponfrom which depend soft silk ball tassels. Long horse-tail tassels of twisted silk of a Terra Cotta shade, are hung ateach corner. A larofe bow of shaded satin ribbon, tied taste-fully at one corner where the tlower stems begin, completesthis very pretty table. DESIGN FOR PIANO SCARF. 255 Appliqcje Piano Scarf. Fig. 57 is a piano scarf for an upright in the new Mo-saic embroidery, or plush applique work. The ground is oflava gray plush and the design of autumn leaves is cut outof a variety of shades of plush, each half leaf being a sepa-rate piece and different shade. The pieces of plush are firstpasted down on a foundation of crinoline, and when dry,cut out neatly with very sharp scissors and gummed to theplush foundation. The edges are then sewed down firmlywith silk of the same shades as the plushes. The neglect of this sewing down is what has causedmany to regard Mosaic work as lacking in durability; butif the edg

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