How? or, Spare hours made profitable for boys and girls (1887)
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rd. Study all the designs you can STENCILS. 137 find, and note the effect of the colors on each other andupon the color of the wall itself. Choose some simple,open pattern at first, and do not use more than two colorsin putting it on the wall. The fresco paint, or kalsomine,comes in a powder, with… … an ordinary wash, and it is best to have your stencil pat-tern, after it is perfected to your taste, cut from a pieceof tin, if a tinman is near at hand. After the walls havereceived their share of decoration, it would be well topaint the door to match, using some appropriate oblongstencil for the…
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