2,286 Traditional Stencil Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Before the in style building of brand new inner ornament, developers and householders ceaselessly trusted commercially to be had stencils to embellish ceilings and partitions of homes and different systems. This quantity reproduces uncommon catalogs of such stencils, synthetic ca. 1918 and ca. 1920 by means of H. Roessing of Chicago.
Over 2,200 stencil designs come with a huge number of horny and boldly published photographs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with problematic floral and foliate styles, architectural adorns and layout parts, spiritual symbols and figures, a lot of animals (horses, lions, birds, and so on.), mosaics, landscapes, and a lot more.
Meticulously reprinted from authentic catalogs within the selection of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, those masterfully completed designs are a very powerful supply of copyright-unfastened subject material priceless for artists, illustrators, and craftspeople operating with textiles, wallpaper, and different ornamental merchandise. Additionally, those ornamental motifs supply a useful report of American ornamental tastes within the early years of the 20 th century.