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Principles of decorative design (1870)

Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 100

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ch, when varnished and seen in con-junction with the blue, will appear as black as jet. (See the colom-ed examples onPlate II., and remarks on colour on pages 4-5 and 46.) Walls are usually papered in middle-class houses. I must not object to thisuniversal custom; but I do say, try to avoid… … •^•^•I^i^it:^ Fig. 62. ailistically, and not as so much paper. Let a dado be formed of one paper, the dadol)ordering (dado rail) of a suitable paper bordering ; the upper part of the wallbeing covered by another paper of simple and just design, and of such colour asshall harmonise with the dado.…

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