SINGLE DRAPERY USED FOR NEWEST CURTAINS

Waipawa Mail, Volume LII, Issue 44, 24 December 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

SINGLE DRAPERY USED FOR NEWEST CURTAINS

.New styles in furnishing demand new styles in window treatment, and designers have met the demund in a variety of ways. Perhaps the most acceptable of these is the novel met hud of hanging the window with one very full curtain of xirtiti-ii.l Milk, and drawing th i * in a bold sweep towards the left side, where it is eaught into a broad band. The well-arranged curve in the drapery proves a distinct asset to the room ns a whole, and there is no doubt that it routes into line with n odern furnishing notions better than the double curtains of yester-year. The band may be of china flowers and glass leaves in realist** colour, wrought into a garland. It may be of raffia woven into n broad plait of many tints, or of narrow* ribbons, similarly treated. Quite amusing are the new materials which arc woven with strips of open work to reveal glimpses of thin inner curtains in some effective colouring. I have seen one in soft pewter grey, with ruws of vertical twists set far enough apart to give n charming view of coral-pink Japanese silk hangingon the other side. .It is |M»s*ible tn ring many changes on this ilea: a magpie scheme, for instance, would show white silk curtain* behind bind; outer ours, the notion rnuNl be ex plotted in different shades of the same colour .... A sin.ih,r ell.* t \< t., be evolved with outer curtains worked in ' 1 broderie auglaisc,'* the contrasting inner cm tains showing through the pattern.