AN ATTRACTIVE IDEA FOR THE CHAIR BACK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 18761, 27 December 1930, Page 13

AN ATTRACTIVE IDEA FOR THE CHAIR BACK.

An attractive new upholstery notion is to have the armchair or chesterfield covered with plain material, and to embroider a big motif on the back. Worked in glowing colours on a fairly dark background, the embroidery is most effective, giving the appearance of a handsome chair-back. If you are making new loose-covers at home, the embroidery will be carried out before the covers are sewn up; if the work is given to an upholsterer, you must ask for the back piece to be sent to you as soon as it is cut, 50 that you can work the design, and return it to be incorporated in the cover. On a chair cover of delphinium-blue linen, a basket filled with flowers in rich shades of petunia, lavender, crimson, cerise and honey-yellow, with jade-green foliage, looks beautiful, and takes little time to work. A suitable transfer for the basket, which should be worked in a war brown tone, can be obtained from any art-needlework shop. The flowers might be cut from vivid felts and appliqued down with contrasting wools, if you prefer this method to embroidery; or suitable blossoms could be cut from floral cretonne. As an alternative, stencilling may be employed to decorate chair-covers. An armchair covered with buff hessian looks very gay with a conventional wreath design stensilled in bright oil colours on the back. The seams are piped with braid in a colour to match one of the shades in the painting.