papyrotamia

Updated: May 18, 2025

Other accomplishments were taught to girls; "cutting of Escutcheons" and paper flowers "Papyrotamia" it was ambitiously called and painting on velvet; and quilt-piecing in a hundred different and difficult designs. They also learned to make bone lace with pillow and bobbins. The boys were thrust at once into that iron-handed but wholly wise grasp the Latin Grammar.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England