<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I don’t know what the correct term would be, but it looks as if the decorator took a brush fairly well loaded with the paint and tapped it against the edges, with a downward (or upward - but moving perpendicularly to the edges) motion, three or four times for each “stripe”, maybe dragging it a bit to spread the color - the tapping would result in a little spatter - it’s neither sprinkled nor stained, and only partially spattered. Perhaps an artist would have a more precise or descriptive term for the technique.<div><br></div><div>John Lancaster</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Randal S. BRANDT <<a href="mailto:rbrandt@library.berkeley.edu">rbrandt@library.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to describe an edge decoration situation I've never seen before. Since a picture is more effective than words, please see some images I posted Flickr:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7321780@N05/21582825453/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/7321780@N05/21582825453/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7321780@N05/22016053948/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/7321780@N05/22016053948/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Right now, I've got "edges sprinkled [?] in alternating red and green stripes". Can anyone come up with something better? Is there a technical term for this type of decoration?</div><div><br></div><div>FYI, the book in question is Gart der Gesundheit (Augsburg : Johann Schönsperger, 1486).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Randal S. Brandt<br></div>The Bancroft Library | University of California, Berkeley<br></div>510.643.2275 | <a href="mailto:rbrandt@library.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">rbrandt@library.berkeley.edu</a><br></div></div>
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