A design in silver is very attractive on either a dark gray or green decoration.
Strong and decided contrast in colors, almost always produces pleasing results. Among the best are black and yellow, black and red and black and yellow-green. Rose and red do not go well together. Neither does blue or blue-green go well with red, but red and olive green contrast well. For a beautiful dark blue, mix banding blue with about one-fifth part of hair black. Ivory yellow or light green look well on a dark green band, and gold on maroon. To produce a good maroon use ruby purple and one-sixth part of peacock green.
A very beautiful color that we can hardly name, comes from mixing three parts of peacock green with one part of crimson purple. The result is about a deep steel blue.
If a dark green ground is treated with ruby or crimson purple, before the second firing, it produces a very warm effect.
Combine one-fourth of Russian green with Copenhagen blue and you have dark gray.
Yellows destroy red and should never be mixed.
A very delicate blue-gray can be produced by mixing turquoise blue and about one-sixth of black. Use more or less of black as desired.
Violet and brown makes a striking color. A light wash of hair brown or Meissen produces a tan.
