Alabastine: the durable wall coating.
A trade catalogue issued by the Alabastine Company in 1900 to promote its powdered wall coating, aimed at painters, decorators and householders who wanted a durable alternative to kalsomine. The first picture is a colour-swatch chart numbered 20 to 33 with slogans printed along its sides, and the second is an engraved view of a cardboard packet labelled for use in cold water. A designer might take from them the sober, tabular layout of the swatch chart and the flat, hatched line style of the packaging drawing.
