The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-06-10

Carpets, Curtains, Coverings. Woodwork
and Lamps-New Ideas for the summer,
Beautiful Materials aud Arti site Ar.
rangements-Taste in the Home.

and Lamps-New Ideas for the summer,
Beautiful Materials and Arti site Ar
rangements-Taste in the Home.
IN. Y. MALL
Foreigners complain bitterly of the
oraughis OF lll-bulltAmertcan houses ;and al
ter catarrh has gained the name of the ma
tional disease, We are learning the continen-
tai comfort OF thick curtains and portiers.
Pompeiian colors are resigned to tIIe and
we'll painting where they belong. for they
were never ment for faDrics. and there ia
choice between the modern colors-no longer
faded earthly reds and bilious yellows, bat
subtle shedes OF peacock tiDges, the irvelv
blues OF succory howers or Of pale mist and
mossy, bronze and pIimr 50 shades. golden
olives and hut browns that shade into mari
gold and tRTDy color. These are fond in
Supple Turcoman and deep furry plush,
which takes the light as If it held Iumi-
nous quality. Thsse rich colors ara Aast left
to themselves, to show their own suptuous
folds, up broken by trimming, with ,sraaps
hinged headings OF Persian, Moorish or "a.
pestry design.
With these should bs used the large Persian
carpet, which covers the floor almost entirely,
or one of the modern WIitops, OF indefinite
pattern, in color neither shading into the
walls or contrasting. bat with Just enough
difference 10 relieve them in the mass
bron ze, marine blue and russet shades. These
art carpets are to be made in rug fashion,
walls and not fitted TO projections. Tne pat
tern carpets in Wilton and fiue Brussels are
b autifal er0ugh 20 frame on the walls as
tapestry, the soft. superb coiors rivaiiog
flower painting. For instance, parents wish
ing TO furnish young lady's room on leav-
ing school, might choose a carpet of large
pale-blue campsnuas and pinky fox gloves,
strewn on light ground, without border, the
| walls 6raped in mist blue tinge, wi Ii wide
| fIieZe Of campanulas and daisies tbs portiers
OF blue-gray tuTcomen or tapestry, door
hsnginGs being usually heavier material
than other dreperies, with curtains of the
printed tatin, or better. of English cretonne,
which would repeat the bluebell and fox
| glove patterns, with tapestry headings
blending the same colors The furniture
should be small, tufted easy chairs and lounge
| in the same cretonne and friuges, or smooth
| cushions OF cIetonne worked with little
gold thread. An older Iady's room might
present the carpet and hangings in the new
| and gsyer design Of nasturtions and blue
| conYolvulus. or the Frenchy looking heur-
| de,lys and roses. with tapestry headings and
lace under curtains of the sheer swiss work
or the cutwork muslin drspery. Lams
| ouins are out of dale, and straight headings
| take their place.
! Expensive furnishings are not indispens.
| able to house in thorough good style, for
the beat desier are followed in ingram car
pets at ninety cents yard and twenty, five
|
| q aims come in style of the high priced XII
| 6erminsfer, which bears the price of Wilton.
| In olive, maroon and chestnut shadinss q.
lpconsp'cuous pattern, which harm1oizl
| well with art furDishir gs and bric-a bcsc-
| Ore pattern of primroses, and fern leaves
crowded on duh red ground. Is especially
] recommended; also an olive drsb with darker
LEAKAGE, relieved by buds ef faint salmon
| pink and duh blue, in lovely design, or cli-
natis leaves in two shades OF bronzs green on
| olive ground.
Borders ere furnished in excellent effect. or
| the ingram is made up rug fashion, fringsd
| deeply, and checS mating laid as bord5r. A
| sitting room is well furnished with B1ige-
port carpet in maroon, with geraniums shad-
ng into the ground, border in warm ccimson
and maroon, the wall paper in the fashion
| able pale brown and cream touched with
faint blue and pink flowers, warm red frieze,
| mRhoganizsd woodwork. and draperl5s Of
| the colored canvas, or French muslin en-
broideTed in red and blue tambour,
or the less expensive OF the
Madras curtains, under warm maroon head
ings, or the plain colored swansdOwn flannel
which artists have seized for delightful
dIapery. The awning cloths In foreign
| stripes make very uss full and artistic looking
inside curtains, the bold bars of red yellow
and brown on the gray ground giving vivid
coler to an interior, and hanging well in
traight folds drawn by curtain rings, with
| cut lOOp1HS. s&mpi6 poCk6t OI Lu6se
cloths, with their brilliant, broken stripes, at
once reveals their possibilities in the way of
fancy work and decoration.
The woven tapestries, in wool jute, or
| heavy monte cottons, which hardly convey
that they are not needlework, even to close
handling, afford charming draperies at mod
est price, giving tha finest leaf and flower
patterns of the old crewell work in blended
hues. The cretonpe in tapestry patterns is
curious and beautiful. French cretonne
borders, one.qHsrtsr to one-hslf yard wide,
are of close design and mellow color; while
curtain Lengths recount the story OF Blue
Beard or the Canterbury tales in hues rich
ss stained giass-se aTtfnlly controlled that
the pattern IS only made out of close inspec-
n, presenting soft C infusion of warm
colers and leafy borderings at a little dis
tance. Each carpet has its curtains and up:
holstery 10 be found in the general stock of
good furnishing houses, and these bringing
each other out with effect which no cost can
supply in other things.