Stencil decorations / Edward Mayhew.
Stencil decorations is a trade pattern book issued by the New York firm Edward Mayhew around 1900, offered to decorators and craftsmen who needed ready-made designs for painted interiors. Its numbered plates show dense black-on-white stencil borders, corner ornaments, garland friezes and repeating wallpaper-style fields built from scrolls, acanthus-like leaves, ribbons, and fleur-de-lis motifs, which a designer could adapt for historical or Victorian-style borders and surface patterns.
