NET CURTAINS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 2 June 1923, Page 4

NET CURTAINS.

Considerations of laundry economy and the modern woman’s love of colour have combined to popularise tho brightly tinted not curtains for our windows instead of the plain white ones. The very latest idea is net, with a weft of one colour and uarp of another, giving very beautiful shot effects. Some of the colourings carry out exactly thoso seen in the shot jaspe striped furnishing silks, and it looks very welt to have the outer curtains of this and tho inner ones of the not. These nets are fadeless, and cost less than 4s the yard. There are also some remarkable productions in plain coloured Nottingham laco curtains. One example, which has a lino design df birds on it, and is a copy of a French handmade filet Jace curtain, is, found in white anil in a deep rich blue. Tho Belgian wool embroidery on net has also been cleverly reproduced at Nottingham, and curtain nets in this style, with a wide embroidered border of roses, are made in various colours. Plain filet nets in two contrasting colours are sometimes used double, one in front of tho other,_ to give a softer effect. A novelty this season is a coloured net of artificial’silk one way and cotton the other, which is found in rose, blue, y-ellow, and green, and is especially lovely in a biscuit colour. ’White filet nets. with coloured borders, and short blind nets to match, form another novelty, the latter being supplied with a slot for the rod, so that they entail no work of making up. These nets, with a border of rose, mauve, blue, or green, are charming in bedrooms. Coloured filet nets are also found with contrasting borders, beige curtains with a border of tango being very pleasing. Voile is now most fashionable for white curtains. 11 is scon in narrow striped and checked effects as well as in the plain material with insertions and edging of reproductions of Oluny, hand-made filet, and Irish crochet lace: short blinds to match can usu--gl'y ho had.