No. 7 Magenta Prima.
Black No. 8 Rush Black M.
Chocolate No. 9 Rush Brown X.
Red No. 10 Rush Red J S.
Yellow Orange-Yellow No. 11 Auramine II.
Blue-Green No. 12 Japan Green.
Red Violet-Violet No. 13 Methylviolett R No. 1.
Red-Orange No. 14 Chrysoidine A G.
Blue Blue-Green No. 15 New Methylene Blue N.
Violet Red-Red No. 16 Safranine S 150.

Complementary or opposite colors on the color chart are said to be
harmonious. Their relation is made more pleasing, however, if one
color, usually the more brilliant, is used in very small amount. In
many cases in the above combinations colors not exactly opposite
have been united. They usually contain a mixture of a primary color
common to both. Brown, Black, Chocolate, and Dark Red are complicated
mixtures and may be analyzed with a chart which will appear later. Many
of these dark colors would harmonize with one another, but would
be so dark that they would not be pleasing. In every one of these
combinations, the natural straw background figures as another color,
and that is why the especially good combinations, as will be noticed,
contain browns, yellows and reds, colors which blend particularly
well with the background. Red-Violet No. 7 can be used with only a
very few colors, and never with Yellow Yellow-Orange No. 1. Yellow
Yellow-Orange should be used cautiously.

In sabutan straw, No. 1, Yellow, must be used sparingly. When used
in combinations in place of No. 1, Yellow Yellow-Orange, the design
should be an open one, rather than solid. Violet Red-Red, No. 16,
when being used in place of Red, No. 10, must be used in the same way,
and only in places where very, very little is called for. No. 11 is
a color that clashes with even a natural straw, so is not advisable
in any combination or alone. No. 13 is not a necessary color when
No. 2 and No. 6 are available.

In placing the color upon the space to be decorated, the heavier colors
should usually appear on the outside and near the edge of the space,
although a border may sometimes be outlined with darker color on both
inside and outside edges.

The following combinations of these colored straws will prove
harmonious. The numbers correspond to those used on the chart and
the different kinds of type indicate