The Malm hand-cut stencils.
A 1925 stencil catalogue issued by Malm Brothers & Co. for painters and decorators, showing hand-cut stencil patterns numbered for ordering. The pages present borders, corner pieces, rosettes and repeat bands as solid black silhouettes with price lists in the margins. A designer could draw on the bold scrollwork, fan-and-tassel edgings and geometric lattice borders as ready-made motifs for surface pattern or wall decoration.
