The Decorator's assistant : a modern guide for decorative artists and amateurs, painters, writers, gilders, &c. : containing upwards of six hundred receipts, rules and instructions for mixing, preparing, and using dyes, stains, oil and water colours, varnishes, polishes, &c. : for painting, gilding, and illuminating on vellum, card, canvas, leather, wood, metal, stone, glass, pottery, porcelain, &c., &c. : with a variety of information for general work connected with every class of interior and exterior decorations, &c
The Decorator's Assistant is a 1902 London practical manual from Crosby Lockwood and Son, compiled for decorative artists, amateurs, painters, writers and gilders, and covering recipes for dyes, varnishes and painting on many surfaces. Its three pictures are small line-drawn ornaments: a sprig of buttercup-like flowers with spiky leaves, a winged laurel-and-wreath panel above the word INDEX, and a torch-bearing hand with the motto Capio Lumen. A designer could take from them simple engraved botanical motifs, classical scroll banners, and lettered emblem devices suited to label or border work.
