Alabastine: the advanced decorator.
This 1910 trade booklet from the Alabastine Company, a maker of dry wall-coating powder, was issued to instruct decorators in applying its products to interior walls. Its pictures show embossed ornamental panel designs, a Columbian Exposition medal, relief-outfit tools with rubber bulbs and stencil-like brushes, and colour swatch charts of tinted wall shades, which a designer could draw on for period ornament, scroll borders and muted palette studies.
