Canvasworks Floorcloths and Murals Catalog

Canvasworks Floorcloths & Murals 326 Henry Gould Rd. Perkinsville, Vermont 05151 802-263-5410

www.canvasworksfloorcloths.com www.currymairdesigns.com !

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Welcome to Canvasworks!

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On the following pages you will find a sampling of floorcloth and mural designs created by artist Lisa Curry Mair at her studio in Perkinsville, Vermont. Large floorcloths and historical murals are her specialties. Museum commissions are welcomed. !

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Every floorcloth or mural made at the studio is a unique piece of art. Each starts as a blank piece of heavyweight canvas, then gradually evolves into a beautiful painting ready for each specific customer's home.

Acorns and Dragonflies

Fox Farm

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The design process begins with input from you. Colors, size and design are manipulated using a variety of tools from freehand drawing to Adobe Photoshop computer software. Nearly any size floorcloth (up to 20 feet wide) can be accomodated. When the final design is settled upon, work begins on the actual canvas. The best, heaviest weight canvas is used on all floorcloths.

Lighter weight canvas is used for murals which are then applied to walls. Within weeks a beautiful floorcloth or mural is created; finished with an extremely durable sealer, and shipped to your home. !

Browse through these pages and keep in mind that no two designs are alike. Even the most basic checkerboard pattern can be an interesting study in color, textural eects, rhythm and flow. Complex mural designs can reflect days gone by and take your home back 200 years.

Prices listed herein are subject to change.

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Basic Checks Floorcloths < Checks with Scroll The central checkerboard pattern is surrounded by a border of handpainted interlocking scrolls. Three colors are used and can be marbled and/or sponged to add textural interest.

Price Group C $30/sq.ft.

Marbled Checks Runner with Acanthus Leaf and Scroll > Basic checks are taken to the extreme in this design. Perfect for a very formal hallway runner.

Price Group E $40/sq.ft. < Ornamental Checks Texture abounds with this sponged darker color in the central tiles and the border and an intricate stencilled motif on the lighter tiles.

Price Group C $30/sq.ft.

Basic Checks in Historic Homes Checks patterns were often used in homes in the late 18th and throughout the 19th centuries.

Painted to look like more expensive marbled floors, these floorcloths were frequently seen in entryways and dining rooms.

< Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York

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Marinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Compass This is one of the most traditional of floorcloth designs. Since the first American floorcloths tended to be made from worn sails , nautical themes were often used.

Marinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Compass Price Group C $30/sq.ft.

Square Star Price Group D $35/sq.ft.!

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Carwitham Designs < Carwitham 2 Bold, striking and elegant. This design works well as a runner or as an all-over pattern for a larger area.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

Carwitham 4 Tumbling Blocks > As seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the Art of the Americas wing, this design is an historic treasure.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

Carwitham 5 > Marbling is a trademark of the Carwitham Collection of floorcloth designs. Canvasworks is well known for excellent faux textures.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft

Carwitham Designs in Historical Homes Hunter Dawson House, New Madrid, MO Lisa Curry Mair created this floorcloth for the State Historical Site in 2011.

The wall to wall installation was common throughout the 19th century. !

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Stenci#ed Designs < Diaper Ornament A beautiful, traditional pattern of interlocking circles which looks great in many diďŹ&#x20AC;erent color combinations.

Price Group D $40/sq.ft.

Wreaths and Stars> Stencilled wreaths encircle 6pointed stars with solid dividing lines making a beautiful statement for an eatin kitchen or Early American dining room. (See below also) Price Group C $30/sq.ft. <Medfield Stencil

A stencil found on a painted floor in a c 1795 house in Massachusetts reproduced as a floorcloth.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

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Stencilled Designs in Historic Homes Initially, stencil designs were painted directly on bare wood floors. Not long after that the same designs were being used on floorcloths.

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Handpainted Border Designs < Artichokes Starting as a small 3’ x 5’ floorcloth design, Lisa Curry Mair’s Artichoke floorcloths have become one of her most popular floorcloths. From roomfilling 10’ x 12’ Artichokes and Checks designs, to runners and area rugs, this pattern hits the mark every time!

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

< Flowers & Fans

A stunning design of stamped flowers, handpainted leaves and a free-flowing border encircle a center of stamped flowers.

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

Acorns& Dragonflies

This design is reminiscent of Arts and Crafts period motifs. The leaves, branches, acorns and dragonflies are each individually hand painted.

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

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Two variations of the Artichokes and Checks Design

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Two Variations of the Flowers and Fans Floorcloth

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Floorcloth Runners < Pennsylvania Dowry Chest Based on a Pennsylvania Dutch design, this 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122; runner is meticulously handpainted with a heavy dose of whimsy!

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

Wayside Inn Stencil > From an original stencil motif from 1780 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

< Bordered Pineapple Runner A beautiful stamped design of pineapples creates a warm welcome for any front hallway.

Price Group C $30/sq.ft.

< Celtic Tree of Life This hand painted design features central images depicting the four seasons, surrounded by intricate celtic knots.

Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

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Runners in Historic Homes Melrose Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi.

Wall to wall floorcloth runners were used extensively in hallways.

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Floorcloths in Today’s Home Floorcloths are terrific in today’s home. Easy to clean, and tough as nails, they stand up to rambunctious dogs, messy kids and sloppy eaters. Just clean with a broom and a damp mop! Each Canvasworks floorcloth is protected with multiple layers of an acrylic clear coat which is made for finishing boats and cars. You’ll be shocked by their durability and ease of care.

Checks with Scro# Checks with Border Fruit (top left) A simple, very stylish design with center checks and a surrounding border of fruit and vines. Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

Classic Medallion This design was derived from a needlepoint rug pattern. Lisa Curry Mair used colors to coordinate with the customers’ Colonial dining room and made the floorcloth the perfect size for their furnishings. A combination of freehand painting and stamping techniques were used to create this one-of-a-kind floorcloth. Price Group E $40/sq.ft.

Stamped Tile with Leaf Border (top right) A soft, relaxed repetitive design creates a beautiful central accent in a busy, casual dining room.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft. !

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Historic New England Floorcloth Co#ection For more than thirty-five years, a group of fine manufacturers has been working with Historic New England staďŹ&#x20AC; to reproduce museum objects for today's marketplace.

Canvasworks produces three floorcloth designs from the HNE archives. A percentage of the purchase price of these three designs goes directly to HNE to help fund their fantastic programs.

Field-Hodges House Floorcloth Greek Key Border (top) Based on a piece of linoleum from the Field-Hodges House, North Andover, Mass. The Field family (Sarah and Jeremiah Field, and their two daughters, Anna and Sarah) lived in the house starting in the 1870s.

Price Group C $30/sq.ft.

Samuel McClellan House Floorcloth Stars and Flowers (middle) Based on a floorcloth remnant, c. 1890, tan and beige marbled stars with rust floral centers, from the back kitchen of the General Samuel McClellan House, S. Woodstock, Connecticut.

Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

Daniel Bliss House Floorcloth Peppers and Petals > Based on a Floor cloth remnant from 1850-1860, on painted burlap from the Daniel Bliss House, Rehoboth, Mass.

Bliss was a deacon in Rehoboth and served in the Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolution. !

Price Group D $35/sq.ft.

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Canvasworks Floorcloths in Museums and Historic Sites Mystic Seaport, CT *Darnallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chance House in Upper Marlboro, MD (above center) Joseph Smith Farmhouse Museum in Palmyra, NY Old St. Augustine Village Museum, FL Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, New York, NY Hanover Tavern, Hanover, VA *Schulyer Mansion Museum, Albany, NY *Melrose Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi *Rosedown Plantation, St. Francisville, LA (above left) *Carlyle House Museum, Alexandria, VA (above right) Minuteman National Park, Concord, MA *Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. *Hunter Dawson State Historic Site, New Madrid, MOÂ *Allegheny Portage Railroad Museum, Gallitzin, PA (right) Kew Palace, Kew, England !

* Click to link to photos and more information.

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Canvasworks Historic Colors

Each piece we create is customized for the individual client, therefore we use a huge variety of colors. We try to make the color decisions a little easier for you by offering 25 Historic Colors for you to choose from. These colors are available in a boxed “Swatch Kit” of 25 painted canvas squares. These allow you to play with color combinations and see how the colors are going to work in your home before you place your order.

If you would like to use other colors we can match any requested color for a nominal fee of $1/sq.ft.

Basic Checks with Jayne House Stencil > Dorset Gold, Black, Cottage Red, Hale Navy Price !

Group C $30/sq.ft.

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Canvasworks Borders Handpainted Scroll

Feather Scroll

Diaper Ornament

Celtic Knot

Classic Medallion Crossed Star Finch

Scripted Scroll Greek Key

Scroll with Flowers and Wheels

Star Flower

Bordered Pineapples

Leaf Stencil

14. Handpainted Checks Extreme Oriental Like a frame on a hanging painting, a border on a floorcloth draws attention to the piece itself. The samples shown here are just a few of the borders which I have incorporated into floorcloth designs. Any of these could be used in a variety of color schemes. Generally, the more complex the central design of the floorcloth is, the more basic the border should be, and vice versa. !

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Custom Sizes and Shapes Thinking outside of the box!

This floorcloth was not made for this covered bridge! It was made to fit in two rooms with a connecting hallway. The end closest to us fits into a bay window; the end to the back fits around a fireplace hearth.

With careful measuring, Canvasworks can create a floorcloth of whatever size and shape is needed.

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Murals New from Canvasworks!

Taking the idea of painting on a large scale to a whole new level!

Since 2009 Lisa Curry Mair has been teaching a class at the Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton, Maine. Once exposed to the wonderful Porter murals, there was no turning back. Since then she has discovered that she is related to the painter and now she has taken it upon herself to continue with his work!

Her murals are painted on canvas which means the customer does not have to put up with the painter being underfoot for weeks on end. The mural is prepared in Canvasworks’ studios and is shipped to the client to be hung by a professional paperhanger.

She develops detailed to-scale painted sketches on canvas for the client to approve prior to ordering, so you know exactly what you’re getting. And she even pastes a photo of the sketch onto a photo of your house’s wall, so you can experience the look of the mural in your home before the actual piece is even started!

Give Lisa a call today to set up an in-home meeting to discuss your mural project.

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Folk Art Paintings Artist Lisa Curry Mair brings back the peace and tranquility of days gone by. Her paintings evoke a sense of simplicity and quietude. From historically researched paintings of buildings and farm life to vast landscapes and rolling mountains, her works are calm and relaxing.

She gladly accepts commissions for house and horse portraits as well as carrying Giclee quality prints of many of her previous works in the gallery.

See more at currymairdesigns.com

Fireboards Fireboards are high quality prints of Lisa’s originals mounted on board and finished with a highly protective coating. Each is made to the size which will best fit your fireplace opening.

New designs are added to the catalog regularly. Call or email us for the latest list.

Stair Risers There are endless possibilities for this application of Lisa’s artwork. This particular stairway shows off 12 different horses. Each painting is done on canvas and mounted to the riser using cove base adhesive. Choose a theme and have Lisa get to work: your dogs, buildings in your town, lighthouses, you name it...

Call the studio for more information and pricing.

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How to Order 1. Call the studio to discuss your ideas or fill out the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Request for Complimentary Floorcloth/Mural Sketchâ&#x20AC;? form and mail or fax it to Canvasworks. Photos, doodles, magazine clippings and/or fabric swatches will help in the creation of your design, but are not necessary if you see a design you like her or on the Canvasworksfloorcloths.com website.

2. Canvasworks will send you a computer-generated layout of a proposed design for your project. Review this design. If you like it, but would like to see a modification, call or email the changes and a new version of your project will be worked out.

3. You will receive a modified rendering,. For pieces valued at more than $1000, sample painted swatches will be provided if requested.

4. When you have settled on the perfect size, colors and design for your project, you will be asked to sign a Commission Agreement. A 30% deposit is required to have your project confirmed and placed on the Studio Work Schedule.

5. Most floorcloths can be completed within 8 weeks of ordering, 12 weeks for murals, but at times the schedule gets very busy and it may take a little longer. When your order is received we will give you an expected date of completion. When your project is finished and ready to be shipped, you will be notified of the balance due, including an additional 6% for shipping (not to exceed $75). When final payment is received, your piece is carefully rolled and packaged and is shipped via FedEx Ground directly to your residence.

Hanging a finished mural.

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REQUEST FOR COMPLEMENTARY FLOORCLOTH/MURAL SKETCH Click here to submit this information online.

Client’s Name:____________________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________Town:________________________________ State:______ Zip Code:____________________ Ph:_____________________________________ Email:__________________________________________________________________________ Date :__________________________

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Floorcloth/Mural Size:__________________ Preferred Pattern or Theme:_______________________ Colors (from Canvasworks 25 Colors):

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Following communication with the prospective client, Lisa Curry Mair will draw up one floorcloth or mural design for the project based on the information supplied by the client. A purchase price of the proposed floorcloth/mural will also be included.The design will be sent by email, web posting, fax or USPS to the client for his/her review within one week of the initial contact.

The Client has one week from the time of receipt to review the design and suggest modifications to colors, size and/or design.

Some modifications may change the quoted price. Any changes in price will be noted on the second design layout. Lisa will make one modification to the original design which will be included in the cost of the floorcloth/mural as quoted to the Client.

The Client may request further modifications to the design, and agrees to pay Lisa Curry Mair an additional $50 per design change for any design work done beyond the second design. Design fees are not refundable, even if the Client decides not to place the floorcloth/mural order.

The client has the right to choose not to have the actual floorcloth/mural created. However, any design fees charged will not be refunded.

All sketches and/or final designs are copyrighted and all rights are reserved by Canvasworks © Lisa Curry Mair and may not be used by anyone including painters, floorcloth manufacturers or other artists. Under U.S. Copyright laws, unauthorized reproduction and/or use is illegal and subject to fines.

When the Client and Lisa Curry Mair have agreed upon a Design for the Client’s project, a Commission Agreement will be drawn up and signed by both parties, indicating details of the design, date of delivery, shipping costs and shipping address.

I have read and understand the above Agreement and agree to its terms. ___________________________________

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fax to 866-469-4984 or send to: CANVASWORKS 326 Henry Gould Rd. Perkinsville, VT 05151 lisa@canvasworksfloorcloths.com !

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How to Get Here !

The studio and

gallery are open to visitors.We do ask that you call a day or two in advance of your arrival. If you’re thinking about having a custom floorcloth made, Lisa is happy to sit down with her customers and talk about their specific needs for a floorcloth for their home.

Tour the house and see floorcloths in use in the kitchen, dining room, hallways and bathrooms. There’s even a set of painted canvas stair risers to see too! Get some great ideas about what will work best in your home.

The Gallery is the place to come to purchase completed floorcloths, samples, canvas blanks, placemats, table runners, fireboards, canvas earrings and framed paintings. Peruse portfolios of Lisa’s past work to spark ideas for your own projects. !

Several floorcloths are always on hand for immediate purchase. Call ahead if you would like a

list of what is available today.

Address: 326 Henry Gould Rd. in Perkinsville, Vermont 05151 Telephone: 802-263-5410 e-mail: lisa@canvasworksfloorcloths.com !

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