The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-06-15
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LARK cOlOrS ana SOU low tones prevail
in carpets OF all grades, from the royal
Administers and Wiltons down, to the in
expensive ingrains. Terra Gotta, POM
peiian red, dark Japanese blue and
golden brown are choice shades for the
ground, and j the olive, black, robin s.
egg and ecrus grounds are still used.
Small figures in Oriental designs, many
of which are copied literally from East
ern rugs are the first choice. There
are also new outline designs brought out
by English designers, showing light
tint OF blue on a darker blue ground,
with perhaps some lines of gold;5 or
there are two rosy Pompeiian tones most
intricately blended; another fancy in
olive and golden brown has light and
shade ingeniously introduced ito repre-
sent CLEANS of sunshine passing across
the floor, while others accurately copy
bits of old tapestry. Small palm leaves
of black or blue and diaper figures or
lattice patterns on red are shown; there
are many solid-colored centers with q
rich border around the room; others are
mere mixtures of colors in small dashes,
yet without any fixed design. and finally
there still remain the once popular floral
designs, which some persist in choosing;
but even these are toned down by haV-
ing tinted grounds of ecru or tan-color
instead of the ivory white formerly
sought after, and the designs are i'm
proved by having Japanese or geometrio
figures introduced here and there in
stead of the pattern being wholly OF
flowers. All carpets are bordered, and
the use of rugs has become so general
that it is now customary to- make up
carpets as rugs; this obviates the diff
Guilty experienced in getting rugs of
exact sizes. For those who like the
deepest pile the royal Administer car
pets with wool backs are selected for
their luxurious softness; these may be
had in the new dark colors with Persian
designs entirely covering the ground,
and also in the gay tloriated patterns
already mentioned. The soft, velvet
like Moquettes are also in most varied
patterns, and are particularly handsome
in the Persian designs, and in somber
blue or red surfaces, dotted with small
black figures of palms or other leaves,
then completed by an elaborate border.
A novelty giving the effect of che
mile covering is made of the waste wool
of Administer and Moquette carpets
woven without desi ign, but in the rich
est coloring seen in such carpets. These
cost $3.50 or 50 yard, and are very ef-
fective when made up as bordered rugs;
that is, not fitted into the corners of the
room, leaving about eighteen inches or
two of margin around the entire room.
This space may be LETT bare, and the
floor be painted, or it may be covered
with a breadth of the ingram filling that
is now used in choice low tones OF col
or. This ''filling' may also be had in
imported velvet carpeting, but the in
grain is most used, and is seen with car
pets of the finest quality. The low
toned blue shades and Pompeiian red
are most used for filling out the spaces
beyond rugs. Crimson tints are avoid
ed, as they do not harmonic with the
subdued colors of Eastern rugs or of the
carpets that initiate them Sometimes
an ingram filling of solid color is made
to cover the floor entirely, and then the
rich rugs are thrown upon it; this is
done where great warmth is needed.
In country houses Chinese mattngs of
checkered straw sometimes take the
place of the filling as a covering for the
floor, and the rugs are then easily used
or removed with changes of the wealth
er. For those who can afford hardwood
floors of inlaid designs, the Persian and
India rugs offer quaint and delicate COL
orings, and of these the antique rugs
that show signs of use by their softened
tints are chosen. The velvet-like text
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prayer rugs from the interior of Persia,
in the Bokhara patterns, and in the long
narrow breadths that are designed for
halls. The light Ghiordes and Smyrna
rugs are pretty for chambers or gay lit
tie sitting-rOoms of summer houses,
while the great Turkish rugs as large as
carpets in the dark red and blue Oushak
colors are liked for large dining-rooms,
libraries and halls. The modern rugs
MAIDEN Berlin with plain centers and
rich borders are really carpets all in one
piece, large enough to cover the room.
The measure and shape of the room are
taken. and the rug can be woven to or
der, fitting the floor in every part. AS
has already been said, experienced deal
ers advise people who move about from
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will not buy valuable rugs, to have car
pets of good quality made up as rugs,
instead of buying the cheap rugs now in
the market.
For handsome rooms the Wilton car
pets remain in great favor, both the
English and American Wiltons giving
excellent service, and their designs be-
ing of the best. The moresque Wilton
designs are very effective, being woven
in new way that twists the yarn, and
gives the appearance of chenille. This
moresque effect is also seen in the stand
ard body Brussels carpets, and these
designs shown in the Wiltons, Axmin-
sters. etc.; these are $3.50 a yard. For
much less money there are also body
Brussels carpets of excellent coloring,
but not of the newest designs; these are
in fine Bokhara patterns, with grounds
of deep red or other chaste dark color.
For hall and stair carpets, Pompeiian
red and terra-cotta grounds are chosen
of solid color with border, or else with
diamond lines of black on red, and also
in the intricate Oriental rug designs.
The pattern for the stair carpet matches
that of the hall, and very soft padding
is used beneath this to protect the car
pet on the edges of the steps, and to
make it pleasantly soft to the tread.
The tapestry Brussels come in many of
the designs chosen for the finest five
frame body Brussels. These carpets
should be put on rooms that are little
used, such as spare chambers, or the
parlors that are closed half the year, as
they soon show hard usage. The sim
pie ingram carpets come in the dainty
colors and fine designs of the most ex-
pensive carpets, and are provided with
borders of solid deep colors. -Harper's
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