when i was in vermont with tara i got a little off-season private tour of the stencil house (jealous) at the shelburne museum. the house has one room with original stencil work on wide painted board walls and one room which has new recreated stencil work. the images above are the originals. of course the painted decoration folks loved and had back in the day looked more like the recreated stencil room (all bright with ideosyncratic color combinations) but i can't help loving the way the old ones are worn and scratchy and faded.
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Why have I never been here??
vermont! with an imposter tara!
next time, dinner, at least?
i rebelled against stencils after my mom went crazy with them in the eighties. but i think i've turned a corner. these are so beautiful.
happy thanksgiving!
Agreed....these are beautiful!! Thanks for sharing them.
I want to eat the stencil house! Or maybe I want to marry it.... a conundrum.
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