Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

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wool, flecks and fakes and
splashes and broadsides Off
raw silk, abound; in mixtures, l
stripes, stripes on mixtures,
checks, plaids, invisible checks,
invisible plaids.
Textures are aptto borough;
but many are apt to be rough.
Roughness of color and textsn,
ure go together. One answers !
in place of the other. The
toughest effects perhaps may
be smooth in texture. Con-
trasts abound; and yet not
violent; roughness, the very
disorder Of mixtures, tames
them. Then there are gentle
shadings and undulations Of
color.
Figures are mostlyobscured
by these irregular mixtures Of
color and texture. There are
checks impossible to trace;
and, while you are looking for
them, you find they are plaids.
There are plaids that seem to
be nothing but mixtures. You
can imagine them anything.
Stripes are apt to be boldsv
not solid but clusters Of heavy
disorderly lines. And yet there
are blocks of quiet plush with
their colors and lines of divi.
sion perfectly marked.
Woods, grays and creams
are frequent colors.
So far the most notable
summer silk-warp black dress
stuffs for '86 are Clairette,
Gypsy and Convent-cloth;
made by Priestely of course.
Clairette came first a year
ago and won immediate favor.
There was nothing like it;
nothing SO fine and light and
clear and easy and rolling. Ii
didn't rumple when sat on; or,
if it did when severely tried,
night restored its easy-rolling
drapery. Dainty Clairette |
And yet it is nothing but
nun's-veiling made soft and
springy with silk. This year,
it is woven a little closer, a /
little more elastic, a little more
sedate withal.
Clairette again combineN
with Grape with pleasing effect
1t is dyed with a view to its
use with Grape.
Clairette is an excellent
traveling-dress-stuff; veil-stuf[|
bonnet-stuff; bears hard usage
as well as anything; dust falls
off with>shaking. On occasion
Clairette is better than Grape.
1t will help, not hinder, the
wearing Of Grape. They 60
together.
Clairette comes also with
border for wells, a most desir
able substitute for Grape, when
the weather is threatening
Rain is destruction to Grape
1t doesn't hurt Clairette.
Gypsy-cloth is new this|
! spring. A really fine but ap-|
parently coarser stuff; for the
i silk of the warp is grouped in
threes, and the wool of the
woof is grouped in threes; the
weave is a broken basket
weave; a double texture, the
! basket-weave and the broker
weave. No CLEAN of silk,|
> dull, heavy in color; apparently
plain with all its completely.
Look a little closerl The
splints of the basket-woof|
have their finer texture.
Gypsy creases as little and
Grapes as roundly perhaps as
any of the Priestley silk-and
woods.
Convent-cloth is also new
as new as if there were neve4
anything like it. And yet it IS
the very same except in color
and sheen, unless our eyes de.
ceive us, the very same as
that exquisite crapy silk-and
wool that we coined the namtl
for, Diamond Dust, two Of
three years ago.
Let's look at Diamond Dus (
a minute. Silk-and-wool all
fineas fnecan be; white, cream
and evening colors. TIL,
sparkle of silk is softened and
heightened by its setting Of |
wool. The weave is irregular,
crapy. The silk is brought 70 /
the surface i'll scattered poins 4
OF light. Diamond Dustk
There couldn't be a happieE
name. "
Convent-cloth is Diamond,
Dust in black; but its silk isl
robbed of its diamond light
The fabric is Diamond Dust.
The light is put out; the char
acter utterly changed.