Ok I got that job to fix a ceiling, someone did a real poor job of taping the joints on the room addition ( drywall) and on top of that they stiple textured the ceiling and that has to be repaired also, the stiple is to heavy to just lay some knockdown over i'm afraid to say, though I may try sanding down the whole ceiling (16x25) but thats a big room.
The house is early 1940's plaster and lathe walls. The rest of the house has textured ceilings and the guy told me that the way they did this particular design was to take a piece of plywood, cut a piece of rubber tire and staple it to that wood. They then dipped the rubber tire piece into thick plaster and dabbed it on the ceiling twisting it as you pull away from that area being textured, any of you heard of this.
I've spent several hours looking on the internet for information on this old (school) style of texturing without any luck so how about it anyone with some knowledge of this sort of style?