The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-21
WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW
Tapestries.

.. Tapestries.
Beautiful things are made out of leather.
Painted panels of life-size figures are set i'll
| plush or velvet for portieres at the cost of $3.50
each Figures are also painted OH plush,
the face and hands being made of inserted
leather and framed in the same way for the
same purpose. Real handmade tapestries are
of course, the handsomest and most expensive
portieros one can find, but they are extremely
rare. Next to those come silk ~velvets, brilliant
flowers on creamy or pale grounds, at tho cost
blue satin, with a lacy design in cream and
white, thrown up in relief, was used
for the walls. Some of the h~angings have
broad embroidered stripes going across them
at about the height of q high dado. Other
rooms are hung with satin, checked of in dia-
mond patterns by worked ivory. Others have
a light Japanese wood carving almost like lace
for the fricZc. This wood work is also used in
cabinets and bookcases over silk curtains.
One of the haudsomest bookcases has three
compartments. the center one being shut iu
| with q door of open-work brass, behind which
one can put magazines and so forth. For
upholstery lcom-woyen tapestries are largely
used in hbrarlos, slttins-rooms and every
| where but the drawing-room. They come liz
an immense variety and al equal range in
cost, and are very rich in coloring aud texture.
Tho best thing for parlors, however, both
in wear and appearance, is the old-satin
damask, which is brought out in oil the new
shades and beauties. Some Of 1t is plain stuff
| richly embroidered and very expensive, but
for STA a yard one can get u very handsome
| parlor covering. To go with it ia plush for
the window curtains. either plainly lined or
embroidered with a spray running the whole
length, or with an embroidered strip about
half way up, or trimmed with a fringe n foot
or eighteen inches wide, turned over at the top
and a narrow gimp all around. This is the
way they recommend one to do at Lewis
| Tiitany's rooms, but the materials they have
there, although costly, are not nearly SO hand
some, we thought, in spite of patriotism, as the
exquisite French fabrics.
Rugs.
New York Letter: Nextin order came rugs,
OF course, floors are either made entirely or
bordercd with hard woods, and the rugs are ar
ranged With sockets and pins to keep them
firmly in place. We had by good fortune heard
Of an East India company as having a large
variety of real Oriental goods, and we went az
once there. 1t is way down town, and the odd
est of places. / felt as if l WAS an embalmed
mummy after sitting there awhile, SO numer-
GUS arc the spices and Gnms and o1ors OF in
dcscribable Eastern things which abound.
But the rugs are we'll worth seeing.
There were beautiful ageas three-fourths
of an inch thick, every thread made by
hand, most OF Them, unfortnna tely. by tho
prisoners in India Others, called Aomads.
are woven IN tho tents by different
hands, and with only a general idea kept in the
design; no two points Of a diamond, for in-
stance. being opposite one another, nor one end
of the rug being like the other. Sometimes
they take IL year to make one of them; some
times ten years. 1t is like s. lady's fancy work.
AL the colors are indescribabiy rich and soft,
but the antiques are the most beautiful. AT
tley are rolled out clouds of dust arise, and the
worn spots which arc proudly pointed out ms
adding each $50 to the worth of the rug, make