 Hornel and Henry collaborated upon "The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe" (1890), a procession of druidic priests bringing in the sacred mistletoe, gorgeous with polychrome and gold.The two worked side by side to achieve decorative splendor of color, Hornel boldly and freely employing texture effects produced by loading and scraping, roughening, smoothing, and staining.In 1893–94 the two artists spent a year and a half in Japan, where Hornel learned much about decorative design and spacing.