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From Page 3 I just get the plaque ready and finish it with varnish.” She explained that tole ! painting means a design is stenciled on a surface “ that’s already painted in the final background color. The design is then painted inside the stenciled area and once it dries, several coats of varnish are applied.
MRS. MILLER has some tole-painted trays with designs of bright fruit and lots of plaques on which little girls wearing big wide brimmed hats or puppies and kittens have been painted.
“I do a lot of business „ with people from Culpeper • and Fredericksburg.” Mrs. Miller said. “I always tell them, ‘Surely, down in the city you could have bought something nicer than anything I make.’ * But I think part of the reason they come to me is they like to drive up in the country,” she said.
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