PIANO BACKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue X, 9 March 1895, Page 238

PIANO BACKS.

People are very fond of recommending elaborate and expensive backs for a piano that stands ont in the room. Doubtless these gorgeous arrangements of colour and embroidery are very fine if we can only obtain them ; but, alas ! they are out of so many people’s reach that I cannot but feel that some of my readers would be glad to have a hint of how they may make the back of their piano very presentable with an expenditure of little money. Cretonnes are so beautiful nowadays that it would be quite sufficient if we supplied ourselves with a double width material of this sort just sufficient in size to stretch tightly over the back, and these should be made neat by tacking a furniture gimp of corresponding colours carefully down over it; the little drapery that is gracefully festooned along the top, falling pendant, longer and with rather more fulness on

one side than the other, is composed of coloured washing silk, edged with ball fringe. The one that I have sketched here was covered with a cretonne patterned with honeysuckle, tied together with flowing blue ribbons. The silk was of the pinky tinge found in the flowers, and was furthermore lined with a pale blue exactly reproducing the tint of the ribbon.