This beginners' guide to stencilling features rooms from the author's Georgian farmhouse, each one decorated in a distinctive period or style. Each chapter focuses on one of the rooms and includes a description of its stencil elements, colour photographs of the interior, a step-by-step project sequence exploring an individual stencilling technique, and a stencil pack to trace from the page. The 12 themed styles include the honeysuckle kitchen; Indian Raj room; panelled room; blue-and-white Wedgewood dining room; Islamic bedroom; Chinoiserie bedroom; den; contemporary bathroom; Grecian hallway; Gustavian bedroom; and Napoleon's room.
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Born in Singapore Helen Morris spent her childhood with the British Army in various countries. She went to a proper English boarding school where she developed an inventive approach to art, drama and rule bending. She had decided that when she grew up she would either be a world famous movie star or a world famous fashion designer but that was because she had never owned a stencil set as a child. If she had I am sure that it would not have taken twenty eight years before Helen realised that she wanted to be a stenciler.
Helen Morris is now one of Britain's best known stencil experts. She and her husband Michael Chippendale founded the Stencil Library in 1988 and have been designing and cutting stencils for a worldwide market ever since. Helen taught herself to stencil and has since shared her innovative techniques with countless people through lectures,workshops, publications and television in Europe, Australia and U.S.A. She has had two books published and contributed to many more.
Helen and Michael live in an eighteenth century stenciled home in Northumberland, England. She stills dabble with fashion and drama.
