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

It might have easily become good domestic art.

From The Development of Embroidery in America by Wheeler, Candace

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)

It requires intelligence and great care about details: no half-attention will do, any more than it will in any other thing we attempt, whether it be high art or domestic art.

From Choice Cookery by Owen, Catherine