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Suggested Color Combinations. Referring to the color wheel it will be noted that there are a minimum of five colors which will harmonize with a selected color. For yellow, for example, there is the complementary color violet, which has its two analogous colors, redviolet and blueviolet, plus the analogous colors of yellow itself, yelloworange, and yellowgreen. Analogous colors of analogous colors increase the harmonic band, augmented by pure black, white, gold, and silver. There follow some suggested combinations for twotoning, banding, and striping.
Body Color Secondary Color White Red, green, blue, bluegreen, cream, brown, gold, or blackCream Dark red, medium blue, bluegreen, orchid, brown, or gold Ivory Chinese red, orange, orchid, light and dark green
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Body Color Yellow
Peach
Light (lettuce) green Yellowish (lawn) green Blue green Light (powder) blue
Orchid Chinese red Red Brown French gray Black
Secondary Color Black, dark green, dark blue, bluegreen, brown, peach,
brown, gray, or black Cream, orange, light green, light blue, bluegreen, light
gray, or black Bluegreen, cream, peach, orchid, silver, yellow, or black Bluegreen, cream, orange, or black Ivory, orchid, silver, gray, or black Peach, yellow, ivory, medium and dark blue, light green,
orchid, silver, gray, or black Light blue, ivory, silver, or bluegreen Black, dark blue, ivory, gwy, or gold Black, light green, ivory, silver, or black Cream, yellow, orange, gold, or white Deep red, black, silver, delft blue
Chinese red, deep red, Chinese yellow, light green, light blue, gold, silver, or white
Decalcomania.
In addition to striping and banding, enameled furniture can be further decorated with colorful decalcomania transfers, which are available in a variety of designs and colors. Fruit and flower designs, vocational accessories, vegetables, small scenes, and human figures are appropriate for flat or curved surfaces, such as panel centers, drawer fronts, chair backs, table aprons, and bookcase ends. Modern transfers have been so perfected that they are capable of reproducing multicolored designs in the minutest detail; indeed, socalled "plastic veneer" is in reality a photographic decalcomania transfer on a lacquer film, which reproduces the veinings in marble or the graining in fine cabinet woods with amazing fidelity.
The early water type of transfer is still popular, owing to the ease of its application. After it has soaked in a pan of water for a few minutes it is applied to its selected position, where the paper is slid out from under the design. The overlapping of the protective coating of this type of transfer is minimized when it is applied to an enameled surface, but fairly obvious on a stained surface.
A duplex transfer, however, when properly applied, is very difficult to detect from expert freehand painting. Consisting of two sheets of paper, it is laid face up °n a smooth surface and the colored side brushed with the manufacturer's special cement or with varnish.