Lesson Two: The Rainbow and the Pot of Gold
A 1927 United States handicrafts instruction lesson from Fireside Industries, a manual teaching colour mixing through numbered plates for craft students. The pictures show numbered design guides: a triangular motif with tulip-like forms, a pattern of numbered circles and leaves, and egg or lantern shapes with numbered bands and scalloped edges, plus an ornamental border. A designer might take the numbered colour-key layouts as a model for paint-by-number or segmented pattern schemes.
