[89] Nearly every stationery store carries stencil ink and brushes in stock, or you can get them of Hammacher, Schlemmer and Co., Cor. Fourth Ave. and 13th Street, N. Y. C.
How to Make Stencil Inks.
—Dissolve 4 ounces of shellac and 1 part of borax in a little boiling water and put in enough logwood to make it red if this is the color you want it, or blue carmine if you want it to be blue. Then add enough hot water to make it about as thick as cream.
How to Use Decorative Stencils.
—Art stencils can be used with good effect for certain kinds of decorative work, but it is especially adapted for putting borders on kalsomined walls. You can cut these stencils, see [C in Fig. 82], after your own design or you can buy them already cut.[90]
[90] Write to the Frost and Adams Co., Cornhill, Boston, Mass., for a catalogue of their Art Cut Stencils. Also to Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago, Ills., for a list of their decorative stencils.
Mixing Colors for Stenciling Borders.
—To make the colors for decorative stencils stir a very little moresco stenciling color[91] with some hot water; be careful not to use too much color or the effect on the kalsomined or frescoed wall will be too contrasting. Beautiful colors in half-a-dozen tints can be had for this work.
[91] Made by Benjamin H. Moore and Son’s Co., 180 William St., N. Y., and sold by paint dealers generally.