Self-instructive lessons in painting with oil and water-colors : on silk, satin, velvet and other fabrics : including lustra painting and the use of other mediums
A self-instruction manual on painting with oil and watercolours on silk, satin, velvet and other fabrics, written by Susan Hale and published in Boston in 1885 for amateur decorators. Its pictures are simple black-and-white line studies of flowers and foliage, bordered like practice plates, showing how to build up petals, leaves and stems with hatching and outline, which a designer could adapt for botanical textile or stencil motifs.
