STENCILLED EFFECTS.
Stencilling is- like the little girl of , history —when it is-good it is very, very good, and when it is bad it is horrid. A good stencilplato, however, in the hands of a moderately skilful woman, is tho means of much admirable decoration. Tho design must bo a good one, and if tho design succeeds in that respect, tho' treatment of it calls for littlo skill. What a woman can do. with 'a. stcncil is proved in a certain room where tho walls havo been kalsomined in tho palest shade of mauvo. A wistaria design has been stencilled to form a very light frieze, the pattern ooming down to framo the windows, the curtains of:which are mauvo cotton crepc, with plain borders in a deeper shade. 'A golden rule for curtains in relation to walls is always to havo ono or the other plain. If tho walls show a pattern the curtains must bo plain, and vice versa. Stencilled designs in tho curtains, table-covers, etc., look quite charming' in a >'ooni wit h P lam coloured i walls.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 October 1908, Page 11
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180STENCILLED EFFECTS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 336, 24 October 1908, Page 11
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