Tag: window
Tag Description:Ideas for Window Box Garden Arrangements
Although this diy article on window gardening is over 100 years old, the advice still holds value to anyone who would have a traditional Victorian style window garden. Originally published in the May 4th, 1895 issue of Home Chat magazine, a digest-sized publication that would have set you back a penny. But for you, it’s [...]
Sad Victorian Boy Longs to be Set Free
The birds! The birds! How they mock him. Suffering from ennui with a side of malaise, all the young Master can do is wish for sunnier days and better circumstances as he pines away indoors. Perhaps you can find a good use for this vintage Victorian engraving, a Gothic bit of clip art as ever [...]
DIY Victorian Window Flower Box Planter
Here is a terrific idea for a DIY Victorian window box flower planter from an authentic Victorian source. 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 [...]
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.
