Entrée principale:

Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920, author.

Titre et auteur:

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.

Publication:

[New York] : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881.
©1881

Description:

xii, 242 pages : illustrations, plates (some color, including frontispiece, portrait) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Part I. Embroidery. -- Introduction. -- The governing rules of decorative art. -- Appropriateness and color. -- Design. -- Stitches, ancient and modern. -- Textiles used for embroidery. -- Transferring the design. -- Gold in textiles and embroidery. -- Crewels, silks, etc. -- Frames. -- Fringes for needlework. -- Applique. -- Outline work. -- Treatment of embroideries, when finished. -- Drawn work, old and new. -- Opus araneum, or spiderwork. -- Cut-work, or point coupe. -- Macrame lace. -- Point and pillow laces. -- Part II. Brush and pigment. -- Water-colors on silk or satin. -- Fan painting. -- Oil-colors on silk or satin. -- Oil-colors on plush. -- Water-colors on sateen. -- Painting on coarse brown paper. -- Water-colors on linen. -- Painting on tapestry. -- Painting on mirrors. -- Painting on gilded canvas. -- Decorated palettes. -- Menus and dinner cards. -- Etching on linen. -- Panel painting. -- Painting on wood with water-colors. -- Painted tables. -- Part III. Modern homes. -- Hints for decoration. -- Wood-carving. -- Screens. -- Portieres. -- The mantel-shelf. -- Piano decoration and drapery. -- The decoration of our doors. -- Japanese art in decoration. -- Thin curtains for the drawing-room. -- Embroidered draperies of India mull. -- Embroidered window-shades. -- Drawing-room chairs. -- Odds and ends. -- In tea-cup time. -- Decorations of the dinner-table.
BAL 7179

Ressources:
Gale Cengage Learning, Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Waddleton Chronology

Sujet:

Interior decoration.
Embroidery.
Painting.
Decoration and ornament.
Interior Design and Furnishings
Paintings
Décoration intérieure.
Broderie.
Peinture.
Décoration et ornement.
Portières (Rideaux)
portieres.
embroidering.

Classification/genre:

manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Books.
Guides et manuels.

Vedettes secondaires:

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Handiwork in modern homes, Woman's

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 110589
Cote: 986; ID:86-B22342
Statut: Disponible