ABSTRACT
The Critic’s review noted that Mrs. Harrison was known to lovers of decorative art before the publication of the present volume through her contributions to the Art Interchange. The very heart of home is one’s “ain fireside,” and around it clusters all that is pleasantest in a lifetime of recollections. A suggestion for the liberal use of embroideries in connection with fireplace decoration is contained in the following description of a “chimney corner” exhibited by the Royal School of Art-Needlework. Fireplace curtains, running upon invisible wires, or upon visible brass rods, beneath the mantel-piece, are made to draw before the grate when unused. A lambrequin, designed to conceal the mantel-piece, was made of olive-green momie-cloth, with an inserted band of paler green sateen on which sunflowers were worked, the centres applique disks of brown velvet, crossed with yellow crewel, the petals worked in feather stitch in shaded yellow and old-gold crewels.
