Placard marble paper



This is an exceptionally rare pattern. produced cheifly in 18thc. France and seldom elsewhere,  it is essentially a stone pattern with the colours arranged in rows or a grid. There are severla manners in which the pattern may be made. The one below is my favrouite method, but other methods are mentioned under " notes"
 For this pattern, you need red, yellow, blue and green. These colours were the mainstays of that period, and the pattern is best done in them.

1- cover the bath with red.

2-drop on blue and green in the following fashion- the actual number of sopts per row does not really matter, only that they be tolerably close to one another              
                                                                         B G B G B

B G B G B

B G B G B

B G B G B

( B = blue, G = green)

3- on each drop of blue, place a drop of yellow

4 sprinkle the whole with white

5- curl the pattern. Make the curls about 2 spots wide.

~Notes~

 Some vesions ( including the one in the deridiot encyclopaedia) do not place the yellow drops in the blue drops, but rather place them between the blue and green drops.

If it pleases you, you may draw a comb directly through the pattern at step 4. This causes the spots to form jagged edges. When the pattern is combed, an interesting effect is created.