domestic art

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“I’m always worried for her. I’m her mother. But this is in our blood; my mother made decorative embroidery, it was domestic art back then. It is Ekin’s genes to create.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2017

When she devotes virtually every moment to making her home a spotless museum of domestic art.

From Time Magazine Archive

These picturesque scenes, in which the familiar domestic art supplies the essential touch of colour, are aptly described by Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton, those indefatigable searchers for the beautiful among the relics of our forefathers.

From Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them by Webster, Marie D. (Marie Daugherty)

The artistic movement had invaded dress and upholstery, and Pre-Raphaelitism tapered down into aestheticism, domestic art, and the wearing of sunflowers.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

To turn over the pages is to obtain keen pleasure, as well as enlightenment, concerning a treasury of domestic art and archæology, which to a large extent is kept closed from the common eye.”

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough