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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Preserving America's Landmarks
- EARLY AMERICAN INTERIORS:
- Color-washed Walls
- Graining and Marbleizing
- Strippling and Mottling
- Glazing with Buttermilk
- Painting Plaster
- Decorative Painting on Plaster
- Stenciled Floors
- Spatterdash Painting
- Floor Cloths
- Kitchens in American History
- DECORATIVE PAINTING AND STENCILING:
- Painted Furniture
- Fractur Painting
- Stenciled Furniture
- Stencils
- Painted Tinware(Tole)
- China Painting
- Painted Window Shades
- Painting on Velvet
- Painting on Glass
- Transfers
- HAND WEAVING, RUG MAKING AND DYEING:
- Weaving
- Printed Cloth
- "Ruges and Carpets"
- Braided Rugs
- Hooked Rugs
- Dyeing
- HISTORIC NEEDLE CRAFT:
- Quilting
- Samplers
- Embroidered Pictures
- Crewel Work
- Flamestitch Embroidery
- Berlin Work
- Beadwork
- Needlework
- DESIGNS WITH FRESH FLOWERS AND FRUIT:
- Flower Arrangements in Early History
- Flower Arranging in the Early Colonial Period
- Eighteenth-Century Bouquets
- Fruit on the Dining Table
- Arrangements of the Classic Revival Period
- Victorian Arrangements
- PRESERVING SUMMER'S BOUNTY:
- Seventeenth-Century Thrift
- Eighteenth-Century Winter Bouquets
- The Victorian Era
- Twentieth-Century Techniques for Preserving Plants
- Methods of Preserving Flowers and Foliage
- PERMANENT FLOWERS OF FEATHERS, WAX AND SHELLS:
- Feathers
- Colonial Wax Portraits
- Shells
- EARLY PAPER CRAFTS:
- Silhouettes
- Cutout Patterns
- Papyrotamia
- Pierced Paper
- Embroidery on Paper
- Paper Lace
- Coats of Arms
- Montage
- English Paper Filigree Quillwork
- Indian Quillwork
- American Paper Quillwork
- Pasted Wallpaper
- Hand-Blocked Papers
- Decoupage in the 18th Century
- 19th Century Decoupage
- Potichomania
- Contemporary Decoupage
- Making a Decoupage Design
- CRAFTS AND TOYS FROM PLANTS:
- Basket Weaving
- Cornshuck Crafts
- Whittling
- Homemade Toys
- Shuck Dolls
- Rag Dolls
- Apple Dolls
- Pomanders
- CANDLE CRAFTS:
- Candle Making in the 17th Century
- Candles in the 18th Century
- The 19th Century: Candles replaced by artificial light
- Decorating With Candles in the 20th Century
- Making Candles Today
- Molding Candles by Modern Methods
- Conditioning Molded Candles
- Decorating with Molded Candles
- CHRISTMAS IN THE COLONIES:
- A Seventeenth-Century Christmas
- Eighteenth-Century Holidays
- Nineteenth Century
- List of Illustrations
- Selected Bibliography
- INDEX