Painting
Patterns for Home Decorators
(Book 1)
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Publisher: M. Barrows & Company, Inc. NY 1947. VG/ no jacket, but
a clean and tight copy. Edge sunning. Previous owner’s inscription
on ff ep. Light red cloth covered boards.
Illustrated throughout with folk-art patterns both in color and in
B&W.
Chapters include: Actual Size Tracing Patterns; Materials for Painting;
Preparing the Surface; Transferring Designs; Brush-Stroke Flowers and
Borders; Light, Shade and Contrast; Color .
$20.00.