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370 91). It will be seen that the frieze design will require much more care in enlarging than the one shown by Fig. 88, and also that it cannot be extended in the same manner as the latter. Some alteration in depth may be effected with the dark border-band on top. This may be omitted or, to gain width, may be repeated as a base-band to the frieze.

It will be noticed that two ground colors are suggested in the base-border (Fig. 90). On this feature much of

the charm of the effect will depend, and it well repays the trouble of first painting in the upper half with a darker or contrasting color.

The chief danger, and one that must be avoided at all cost of color prettiness, lies in the colors and tones not being balanced—that is to say, the design must be kept equally distinct and plain throughout, and not dying away into the wall in some portions. The blending of stencil ornament is scarcely a task for the novice, and perhaps the best results will be met with when the color-charm is