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Identifier: handicraftsinhom00prie (find matches)
Title: Handicrafts in the home
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Priestman, Mabel Tuke
Subjects: Handicraft Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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re placed ondifferent walls in the room. This givesaccommodation for a large number of books.The bottom shelf can be supported by woodenbrackets, which must be of a really artisticshape in order to look well. A paper patternshould be cut out and sent to the saw-millso that the bracket is made the exact shapeand size required. The top shelf is bettersupported by iron brackets, as these are soflat they do not interfere with the books,and although ugly they are hidden by thebooks. A sideboard, which in its better days hadbeen a mahogany bureau, was made by askilful girl. The three lower drawers wereremoved, the top drawer being left for thespoons and forks. The doors were made bythis same clever girl with tools out of lumber.They were stained mahogany colour. Glasswas inserted in the door spaces, and strips ofwood to hold the glass in shape were nailedbehind the doors. The hinges for the doors,draw-handles, wood, and the glass were boughtfor less than a dollar, certainly a trifling cost.
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■s.s. w Z r.s. < u ox u ?: a* W z o za: o r. J. 0 z- t/3 I H . HOME-MADE FURNITURE 119 A few pieces of silver were attractively-arranged on the top of the sideboard, whilethe lower part was made attractive by piecesof china. An unusual piece of woodworkfinished off the top of this interesting pieceof furniture, and served as an effective back-ground to set off the china. The skeleton ofthe old mahogany bureau was utilized byconverting it into a practical book-case, thefront of one of the drawers forming the base. Within the last few years amateurs havesucceeded in making screens not only for theirown homes but have sent them to the variousArts and Crafts Exhibitions, where they bringgood prices because of their intrinsic merit. The wooden screen illustrated is not onlyvery decorative, but shows extremely originaltreatment. The frame and panels are of oak,filled with brown filler and finished with wax.The frieze consists of favrile glass and copper.The glass is in beautiful shades

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