NEW IDEAS FOR CURTAINS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 68, 13 December 1907, Page 3

NEW IDEAS FOR CURTAINS.

There are few items of greater importance in a room than curtains, and 110110 on which more individuality can be displayed. Within, the last year or two the long curtain, either Jianging straight or looped back, .has been given up in favour of 1 tho curtain hanging level, with the window sill. At first tho short curtain boasted a narrow frill right round it, but frills; except in their earliest youth or immediately after goffering, provo a delusion. The most popular curtain at the moment is 'of a plain material, with a wide border at the bottom an<l a. narrowerono at tho top. It is ill theso borders that tho enterprising woman can' work out any number of ideas. Short curtains of tussore silk, with borders of fine muslin embroidered with shadow\work, in conventional designs in pastel shadfes, look particularly well, and demands little, time in the making. What is known: as cotton Shantung makes admirablo: curtains with stoncilled borders. A. conventional design recently carried out in deep blue's and reds attracted considerable atteution. Huckaback embroidery, lends it-, self specially well to tho decoration of curtains, while largo crochet medallions applied with coloured silks to strips of tussore makes a-remarkably handsomo finish to curtains of cotton crops. A very jlainty room has curtains of pink cotton crepe, with embroidered . borders in x whito, tho sanio idea being carried out with mauve and white in another room in tho samo house. Cotton crevo keeps its colour much longer than ! most materials, and as it washes like the proverbial handkerchief, it is specially well adapted for curtains.