Full of numbers
It is relatively easy to find old signs with numbers on them at flea markets. It has inspired us to create this article about using numbers in interior design. Old figures in all shades really help to create the rustic counterpoint to the more adorable and feminine things in the interior design. They also create a nice touch of factory style without being too much. So use numbers diligently in all sizes, shapes and materials around your home. Some are beautiful to use as is. Others are suitable for tying on as decorations on bottles or boxes. You can hang old metal stencils from printing companies on hooks or chains with clips. Old printing blocks, also from printing houses, are fine to lay or stand for decoration or put them in old set boxes. There are lots of fun things with numbers all around in lifestyle stores, flea markets and craft stores. So go on the hunt for unique things with numbers, and signs with numbers and, not least, find exciting things to use them for. The beautiful and nostalgic cards are easy to make. We have found a few nice motifs online and printed them on rustic handmade paper. We have then written the numbers in a document in a nice font. We have printed them out on handmade paper and cut out all the parts and glued them to the cards. The boxes are covered with old French newsprint. We have decorated one of them with a number template.
A little about numbers.
The earliest forms of numbers used for very simple calculations are based on counting on the fingers or using piles of stones. It can be traced all the way back to several thousand years before our era. Many thousands of years had to pass, however, before the first precursor to the decimal system as we know it today was invented. The first known instance of the tital system in Europe is found in a manuscript Codex Vigilanus from Spain in the year 976. Back then it was not numbers, but symbols that were used. It was another few hundred years before the numbers began to be used.
