The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-10
ABOUT CARPETS.

| English carpets are regarded as the best,
and yet any one outside of the trade might
be puzzled if called upon to decide between
the English and American. The best carpets
made here are as durable in material as the
foreign, though there is no doubt that the
American dyes are inferior, and the colors in
our more costly carpets are not SO beautiful
and may possibly fade somewhat sooner than
those in the imported ones. In buying car
pet the question is not SO much whether it is
American or English, as whether it is the best
OF its kind.
| Tapestry backed with hemp will soon wear
threadbear and there has been so much of
this in the market that it has created preju-
dice against tapestry, while, in fact, good
English or American tapestry will wear for a
long time with moderate care. IT, on holding
ingram carpeting before your face, you can
see daylight through it, or if, on examining
it, you find that it is woven with cotton
chain, it will rot last long enough to pay
| for the trouble of making. A carpet should
| be thick, closely woven, soft and pliable.
Wilton and Brussels ara the most durable
| of all carpet materials, but tbree-plys and
| ingrains are capable of long service, and
have the advantage that they may be turned,
| while the beauty of the Wilton and Brussels
vanishes as soon as the surface is worn. the
English ingram is the best carpet for " turn
wrong side as en- the right.
Velvet carpeting Is Objectionable on account
Of the difficulty Of sweeping it. 1t is really
hard laber to sweep large floor covered with
q velvet carpet, and it seems, too, as If there
We're no fabric to which dirt is so quickly at
tracted, and to which it adheres so peril
iciously as to this.
Wilton and Administer are the most beauti
full Of our floor coverings in ordinary use, for
the superb Turkish and Persian carpets are
very rarely seen, even among the wealthy.
Ingram carpets are not used for halls and
stairways. The heavier Venetian takes their
place. Wilton is much used tor this pur-
pose. as it outwears any other material
Brussels comes next in durability. 1t is ad-
missible to put the same grade of carpeting
in your halls as in your parors or lower
grade, but not higher one. If ingram is on
your parlor floor, then Venetian must clothe
the hall; but if Brussels reigns in the parlor
it may also extend its kingdom into the hall,
or you may still have Venetian there, but not
Wilton or velvet
1t is considered better taste to have the
same carpet on entry and stairway (if these
are carpeted at all), but there are SO many
artistic dep srtures from this that it can
scarcely be considered a rule. 1t is good
economy to furnish two or three flights alike.
thou III this is, of course, not necessary. 1t
the hall carpet does not extend quite to the
wall on either side, it is allowable to have a
strip of painted floor border. On the stairs
the carpet should not extend across the steps.
A space should be left, which can be painted
or grained. Blu. why not paint, stain. or in
lay your hall staircases, SO that they can be
washed constantly?
Ii YOU desire one of tn. bordered carpets,
now so fashionable, you must be willing to
spend money on it. low-priced carpet OF
this fashion looks badly, because the coarse
threads show obtrusively in the plain center |
These carpets with bright borders are very |
artistic where the other furnishing is made
to correspond, and are economical; still more
so if the room be of sufficient size to make the |
center available for some smaller room when |
this style becomes unfashlonable-that is, II
You care to be governed by the fashion. Large |
meda,lions, baskets of flowers and detache
punches of roses become wearisome to the
ewes after time. Not so the unobtrusive
patterns in rich colors, graver grays, stone
colors or browns without borders), or the
mixed Persian patterns. Besides, pattern
should have reason; only distinguished his
torical characters are permitted to walk on |
rosies, like Gen. Washington at Assanpink
Bridge.
carpet will last much longer if carpet lin
ing ia nut under it when it is laid down. This
lining is made of fine wool laid between
layers Of papers, stretched or quilted; 1t is
considered moth-proof. 1t is yard woe,
and cost but fifteen cents yard. PADS
should be put under stair carpets, as they NOS
only preserve them, but make them softer
under the feet, and give them a richer look.
These pads are layers Of cotton quilted be-
tween cotton clo;h, and can be bought at from
two to three dollars dozen, according to the
width.
In the spring. carpet should be taken up.
we'll shaken and beaten mot banged); the dust
should be beaten out Of the Innings, the Latter
rolled around the carpets, and the whole
sswed up in coarse linen and put away In
dry place until autumn.
"Anything pite you dere n inquired one
Dutchuap to another, while engaged IN
,nRljng. "No, noting at all Veil. re-
Iufnkd the other, noting pite ne too.