PIANO AND TABLE SCARVES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 25

PIANO AND TABLE SCARVES

The scarf, as its name indicates, is a long and comparatively narrow covering or adornment that has grown in favour and almost, entirely superseded the ordinary covers formerly in use. There is no rule as to their width, or length, or manner of adorning a piece of furniture; some are laid across the width of the table, some down the length, with ends banging; some are used diagonally. They are made variously of silk, cotton, and linen, of plush, velvet, felt, satin, pongee, and, in fact., of any textile of good colour, weave, and substance. Painting in oil, water-colour dyes, and coloured bi'onzes, silver, and gold; embroidery, appliques in velvet, leather, satin, beads, plush, and metals.