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Sad Victorian Boy Longs to be Set Free

February 1, 2012 | 0
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 [...]

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A Victorian Window Flower-Box

May 23, 2010 | 0
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 [...]

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A Victorian Window-Screen

May 23, 2010 | 0
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.

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