Annie Sloan Royal Horticultural Society Decoupage Papers, Formal Rome metallic savory and classic

savory and classic

The top sponge is blue and it is  course

It mimics the cheerful petal colour of the plant from which it takes its name

the book provides a history of colour in painted decoration revealing how the generally muted colours of the 17th and early 18th centuries gave way to the lighter

Annie Sloan Royal Horticultural Society Decoupage Papers, Formal Rome metallic savory and classicFormal Rome shows an Italian rather than an English garden plan. This elegant oval pattern from the Annie Sloan with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Decoupage Paper collection uses an engraved plan for a parterre, from Giovanni Baptista Ferrari (1584 1655): De florum cultura. Rome: 1633. A parterre is an elaborate type of garden consisting of plant beds separated and connected by paths. Parterres feature ornate clipped box hedges swirling around