COLOURED STATIONERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 7

COLOURED STATIONERY.

The most beautiful and complete boxes of stationery are now features of our writing tables. The newest boxes are wonderful caskets covered with satin, tapestry material, imitation leather and lizard skin, which it is difficult to tell from the reality, and all sorts of pretty designs. Particularly gay are circular boxes covered with a rich blue, red or black and gold lacquer pattern, and finished in the centre of the lid an Oriental tassel. i \ Boxes of French stationery have framed * and glazed prints set in the lids, which are detachable and all ready to hang in one's boudoir. s As to the newest stationery itself, fawn and pale brown, the envelopes lined with . deeper tones, seem to be rather the note of the moment, though other pastel shades, with envelopes lined with "bis, * that is, figured paper, which is often gaily patterned in gold and several colours, ara also being used a good deal. The lined envelope has evidently come to stay, and new shapes are constantly appearing. Quite an unusual type of envelope is oblong, with rounded flap. Some notepaper is veined, other is covered with a very pale-tinted pattern, and mottled, or "hammered" paper, as it is called. Initials appear on stationery in so many guises that it is difficult to be original in this direction. It is rather smart, however, to have one's initials cut out in silhouette in.one corner of a sheet of notepaper, or to let the corner be turned down and tinted a deeper tone than the rest as a background for a monogram.