CRAZYWORK CHAIR COVERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20076, 13 October 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

CRAZYWORK CHAIR COVERS.

A USE FOR SNIPPETS OF VELVET. Bruton Street is the last place in the world when; one would expect to find the quaint old-fashioned crazywork, writes a London correspondent. But 1 have seen a set of chairs wilh crazywork covers there, and they looked perfect. They si and, and are much admired, in a little picture gallery in this narrow thoroughfare to be gazed and commented upon by some of the best known art lovers, colleetois, and connoisseurs in the pountry. The, wood frames are wonderfully carved —they are old German chairs—but it is the covers that arrest tho eye. These are of velvet worked into a crazywork pattern. Its great beauty is the skill v/ith which the <shade3 have been chosen. Thev <vv of a uniform softness; an old " faded" look that is pleasant. Xt is different, too, to the go-as-you-pleaso patterns one sees on cottage quilts proudly displayed in tho " best" bedroom. Each little scrap of velvet has been cut Into an octagon shape, and with the artistic selection of tho colours and the carefnl cutting, each chair set appears as one harmonious whole with no fancy featheretitching to break up the surface. Every morsel of material has been most beautifully joined on tho inner side—not a fraction of an inch out.