Household Elegancies
A Victorian Window Flower-Box
A Window Flower-Box, From The Cottage Hearth, 1876 Given fresh mosses or leaves, a few trailing creepers and two or three spikes of flowers, and the effect will be charming in a window box made after any of the following descriptions. These methods are all cheap and feasible for securing the effect desired. The box [...]
A Victorian Window-Screen
A Victorian Window Screen, from Ingall’s Home Magazine, 1877 The foundation of this window-screen is made of woven netted lace, on which white woven braid is hemstitched in lattice-shape with black split zephyr worsted. The braid is ornamented in herring-bone stitch with similar worsted. Stretch this foundation in a frame of varnished black cane.
The Value of a Scrap-Book
Many of the vintage images found on this site come from antique Victorian scrapbooks that I’ve collected over the years. You can find a nice selection of free vintage images and Victorian clip art on this site. Enjoy this old article, The Value of a Scrap-Book, from Household Hints and Recipes by Henry T. Willams [...]
Make a Victorian Braided Rug
Those acquainted with the manner of making the “quilled braid,” as it was called in the old days, can apply it to the manufacture of beautiful and serviceable rugs, for parlor or sitting-room floor. The materials required are wide, woolen braid or strips of cloth of two or more colors, a piece of canvas or [...]
Beautiful Back Windows
To shut out a disagreeable view from a back window, the glass may be rendered ornamental, and the obnoxious objects shut out, by a very simple plan, which makes a very fair imitation of ground glass. This is effected by cutting out stars or diamonds upon a piece of white muslin, tarlatan, or common tissue-paper, [...]
