borders

I've had a good week in the studio this week. I've been working on this piece, for which I included some interesting borders. The problem was, I didn't have enough of the border to surround the entire composition. I was okay with that (might be interesting to do it "incompletely"). BUT I also wanted to see what it would look like if I had the "correct" corners of the borders and had it around the entire composition. I seemed to recall from where the borders came (something I don't always remember). I searched my early 20th century "Hapers's Weekly" books. There were none of these borders in the 1902 and 1903 issues of the magazine. I was still fairly confident that that is where I originally found them. I then checked the 1913 issues of "Harper's Weekly" that I had in my bookcase. Viola! Mother lode. The borders were used on the table of contents page for "Harper's Weekly" that year. I was actually a little surprised that I remembered from where I got them in the first place. So now I have more than I think I will ever need of these particular borders! I also extracted the covers of each issue of the magazine from the collected bound volume. The covers are a variety of vintage colors, that I will, no doubt, use in future compositions.