This amazing Whip-o-Lite shade is from 1943 and was designated simply as No. 359-variegated. It's another good example of a Whip-o-Lite shade with flocked and non-flocked areas to its design. While the design itself was probably printed on the Whip-o-Lite paper, the flocking would have been hand applied to it. The hand decorating would make every shade a one of a kind, since the way it looked would depend on the person working on it. You can see on this one that some of the small leaves were flocked while most were not. Which parts of the design were to be flocked was probably up to the imagination of the person doing the hand decoration making each shade a one of a kind creation.
