Traditional Stencil Designs: Electronic Clip Art for Macintosh and Windows FROM THE PUBLISHER
Widely used as a form of interior decoration since colonial times in America, stencil designs later became commercially available to builders and homeowners who wanted to decorate ceilings and hallways of houses and other structures. The scores of attractive stencil designs in this CD-ROM and book collection - selected from a rare, early-twentieth-century catalog - are typical of traditional floral and foliated patterns, images of animals, mosaics, and other popular motifs of the period.
An important source of permission-free materials that artists, illustrators, and craftspeople will find immensely useful, these eye-catching motifs - available in a variety of configurations - also provide an invaluable record of tastes in American decorative styles during the early 1900's.