Curtains

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7065, 26 January 1933, Page 2

Curtains

Where you have sasii winuous, mr. curtain’s stretched on brass rods across the bottom half of the window gives uniformity. Net curtains should be carefully chosen and laundered, and all coloured material used for curtains should be fadeless. For casement windows it is not necessary to line the curtains, as they hang so near to the glass and should only fall to about 4in below the sill. For this type of curtain the usual treatment is to have a small gathered heading, and to make a small gathered valance to hide the top of the curtain and the rods and runners. For these curtains the best materials arc the fadeless materials. For the medium-sized windows that finish with a sill, usually about 2ft. 6ins. or lift, from the ground it is entirely a matter of taste as to whether tho curtains are made to reach just below tho sill or are made full length to the ground. The latter gives a greater feeling of comfort, but frequently expense has to be considered, so that either method may bo adopted. Long curtains should be iined almost without exception, as they hang and last so much better. The" medium-length curtains can be lined or not, according to individual taste. The same type of materials can be used for those curtains as for casement. French windows or full length windows naturally must have fulllength curtain's and should be lined. If the curtains are full length they may be finished either with gathered heading, pelmet, or valance. Pelmets make the most handsome and decorative window scheme, and should bo finished with a braid or fringe. Sometimes pelmets' have a cord at the top instead of braid. The design of the pelmet depends entirely on individual taste and skill.