"MUSICAL"' PATTERNS
A cosy sense of warmth, restfulness from the matt surface, and the splendid hanging qualities of" the new wool tweeds and furnishing clothes, is achieved by the off-white shades that have here and there a fleck of colour, green, or red, or: yellow, or a pattern very sparingly used, states an exchange. This fleck of colour is picked out again in little . quilted velvet cushions. • ■'■..'.
Musical patterns have become popular in London. The opening • bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, printed inblack on white/satin,'running across a wide' length of. material,. or are picked '■ out' in. tufted deep grey wool on a white wool tweed like that used for a monk's habit, would make effective curtains in a music-room. Some women like the chintz all the year rbund. Winter patterns are of white flowers on a black ground, lilies on aubergine background, honeysuckle on nigger brown. , White corduroy is more practical than its forerunner, white satin, for dining-room chairs in a white diningroom. Pale blue satin curtains for a bedroom are appliqued , with white velvet flowers. A clever young needlewoman might well make these for her own home. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 18
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188"MUSICAL"' PATTERNS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 18
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