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

The sweet unselfish lady of Beaubocage had indeed undergone hard experience in the acquirement of the domestic art.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

When he did not want it, she understood perfectly—possessing, in an eminent degree, the rare domestic art of being able to make herself scarce—alike in his thoughts and his engagements.

From Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange by Hobbes, John Oliver

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