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Ruutz-Rees, Janet E. (Janet Emily), 1842- · 1883 · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · 23 pictures

A late nineteenth-century American handbook of home decorative arts published by D. Appleton and Co. of New York in 1883 by Janet Ruutz-Rees, aimed at amateur women and домestic makers. The pictures are plain line drawings of botanical petals, sepals, and flower parts, with numbered and lettered parts, offering a designer clean, schematic botanical forms for pattern and motif work.

Decorative arts

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