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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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152 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1908 article will be used for interior decoration, such as portieres, friezes, draperies and screens, or for divan covers and out- door knockabout pillows. If used for decorative purposes only, the aniline dyes may be used, but it is a well known fact that the coal tar products will only become permanently fixed in a fabric through the process of boiling the materials therein. Consequently, if the articles are to be handled, or can be procured at any artist material store as it is generally used to fix pencil and charcoal drawings with a thin solution of shellac. When used on villous fabrics the color can be ap- plied in unvarying proportions, giving the appearance when dry of woven textures. The atomizer ejects the liquid in a more vaporous form, and can be used on the more delicate materials, such as velvets, velours and silks. If there be a
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Fig. 1 Design for Divan Bolster Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Design for Pillow Cover (Sioux Indians) Design for Pillow Cover (Thompson Indians) are liable to come in contact with moisture or rain, as would happen with a swinging divan cover on the porch, or with knockabout pillows, then permanent colors must be used. These can be made by using the ordinary oil colors in tubes and diluting with a little turpentine and a sufficient quantity of gasolene or naphtha to allow the fluid to flow freely through the blowpipe and atomizer; the gasolene being very volatile will leave the color so that it will soon dry and be- come permanently fixed. When the material to be stenciled has the consistency of canvas duck or grass goods, a regular stencil brush can be used, but if the fabric has a nap or villous substance, the blowpipe and atomizer should be employed. A blowpipe number of fine parallel lines close together in the design, it would be better to use a lath or a ruler and a stiff paint brush for oil colors, of the required size, than to cut out the lines in stencil. For a central decoration the "Swastika," or good luck cross of the Indians, is very decorative. For unknown cen- turies this symbol has been used as a charm of fortune. His- torically, it first appeared on Greek coins of the year 315 B. C, but it has been found among the relics of races of a far more remote age. It is probably the oldest cross and the oldest emblem known. The shields of the ancient Britons in the British Museum bear this design. The drawings which accompany this article illustrate some

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