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ent in the contrasting masses of color, and the designs kept full in contrast and pleasing by reason of their form and arrangement of line and curve.

A deep Gobelin or greenish blue may be used for stencilling the frieze design, or a marone brown. The base (Fig. 92) should be stencilled with similar color, upon grounds of medium Gobelin blue (upper) and wall color (lower portion). If the frieze design is done in blue, use

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Fig. 90.

marone brown for the margin band, which is, of course, put in with a small separate stencil. The cornice will be in old gold and creams, in tone with wall filling, the ceiling gray, and the ceiling stencil in blue and marone brown upon a margin having old gold ground. The woodwork of room should be nut-brown and fawns, with a little gilding.

Stencil brushes, as shown in Figs. 93 and 94, specially made for this work are to be bought at the dealers. They