How to paint flowers, scrolls and fancy borders for up-to-date show cards, posters, display signs and decorating
A 1915 trade manual by sign painter William Alexander Thompson, published in Pontiac, Michigan, for commercial show-card writers, poster painters and display decorators. The plates are pen-and-ink models of unfurled ribbon scrolls with curled ends, hatched shading and gray stippled grounds, plus rectangular borders built from beading, chain links and interlaced corner knots templates ready for lettering.
