Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
Carpets.

The tendency shown last year toward
lightercolors for carpets, curtains, wall
coverings and upholstery has grown
into positive preference in the fitting
up of all rooms, except in those that
are rather severely furnished such as
libraries, dining rooms and halls. I'm
obtrusive designs and small figures are
chosen for carpets of all grades, the
floor covering being treated merely as a
background for furniture, whose soft
comfort. quiet and warmth are consid-
cred, rather than its show and striking
display. Intricate geometrieal designs
and Tower patterns. both conventional
lied and quite literal. are in favor alike
for the simplest ingrains, the costliest
Administers, and the French tufted car
pets that are woven in single piece
and sold for one hundred dollars the
square yard. Rug designs, especially
those of India and of Persian rugs, are
in great favor, and all carpets are fin
ished with a border, while many are
made up in rug fashion; that is, they
are cut square or obiong, without refer
ence to the shape of the room--an eco
nomical plan for those who move often,
rs they may be changed from room to
room, and the bare places covered
with filling of solid-colored in
grain or with daTk-colored mating, or
else the floor may be painted, or a
border of hard wood may be added.
Administer carpets woven in a single
piece, with plain colored border, are
chosen for grand drawing-rooms The
durable Wilton carpets are for palmer
drawing-roOms, parlOrs and halls, and
also for richly furnished libraries and
dining rOoms; for small houses an APP
pearance of size is given by having the
whole lower floor carpeted alike, es-
pecia'ly since doors opening into halls
are now taken down TO give place to
portiers that may be drawn aside, and
the entire floor made TO seem one large
apartment. The ecru and yellow
grounds for carpets shown last year
have disappeared, following the black
grounds of a few years ago, while ar
tistic designers choose India red,
Burmese rose, Sewers blue. golden
| brown, robin segg, and sage-green
grounds, upon which are woven ORR
entail designs AMI patterns from old
tapestries that lock as if they were
wrought by the needle. There are also
solid-colored carpets in dull subdued
shades of olive, peacock-blue, and
Venetian browns like maroon, with
narrow borders of q lighter color. The
English body Brussels carpets remain
in favor both for well-to-do people
who can use them on all their floors, and
for those of smaller means who can
ONLY have them for their best rooms;
the tapestry Brussels carpets that imi-
tate these are. however. to be avoided,
as the wooden co!orS are merely stamped
on gray surface and soon defaced.
| For small rooms in flats, for cottage
| parlors and for country houses. the in
grain carpets woven in a single piece
are commended, as they are used like
rugs, TO be thrown down on a painted
floor, or else to give more warmth to a
floor covered with straw mating. For
mating, dull co,ors of dark shades,
such as Chinese-red or olive, are pre-
| ferred to those of the natural straw
colors or to checks. Stairways are car
peted to match the hall, and may have
round rods TO fasten them, or else pins,
Or buttons made of brass, French Gilt,
nickle, or bronze; the carpet may cover
all the stairs. or there may be a wood
en- border visible on each SIDE. A rule
among hou5e-fu-n shcrS that may be
! given here is that OF haYng one color
| prevail throughout the room, beginning
with Is dark Il shade as is permissible
for the carpet or its wooden border,
whether painted or inlaid, then choos-
ing lighter tone for the dalo. with a
still lighter hue for the middle wall, a
very pa'e' shade for the frieze, and the
highest tint of all for the piatond, OF
ceillng.-Hdrper' Bdzdr.