San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-24
TILE ROSE CUSHION.

to date women know TINS, ana COnSe-
uuently these soft, fluffy affairs are Law
ishly placed on cOuches, chairs and
sofas, while floor cushions are COnven-
iently located in front of high seats and
in corners adjoining the fireplace. In
word, one cannot have too many OF these
comforters about the house. When the
housewife has an eye to decorative eff
feet, she varies the shapes and the COW
crings, and herein lies large field for
the exercise Of artistic taste.
In selecting the materials for cover
ing pillows and cushions everything de-
pends on the wear and tear these affairs
are to encounter. Cushions for parlor
and other formal rooms demand dainty
materials and more elaborate deCora-
lions than do those for the much used
sitting room or nursery. Where ele-
ganCe as well as comfort is demanded
silk faced velvet, satin and india silks,
with embroideries and laCes, combine to
make ornamental effects as well rs cOzy
resting places in the apartment
An effective pillow is one covered
with openwork scrim, with rows of rib
bon placed upon the plain stripes, made
over a contrasting color of silk, with ruff
fle of sheer lace surrounding the whole.
All india silk pillow is very pleasant
one to lay ones face against, and when
selected with due regard to harmonious
coloring the effect is very satisfactory.
A very airy effect is gained with a
graduation of yellow tints-as, for exam
pie, a yellow silk cushion, finished
with three ruffles of silk, each shorter
than the other and one degree lighter in
shade than the cushion, these rutfles to
be all set in the seam.
Quite out of the ordinary are the rose
cushions, made in Grape and gauze of
any desired color. Another unique af-
| fair is a cushion and chair back COM
bined. This is covered with figured silk
and lined with plain silk, the two parts
being joined together with ribbon bows.
A comparatively new material for pill
! lows is chamois, which is effectively
decorated either with hand painted de-
+ signs or embroidered ones. These pill
lows are usually finished with a ruffie
of the Chamois cut in sCallOps, or the
ruffle may be of silk of corresponding
color. Now that crochet work is again
to the fore, Colored cushions of silk are
being covered with crOCheted OpenwOrk
in knitting silk Wheels and medalliOns
are favorite designs in this work. An
other popular pillow is the one embrOld
cred with disks of different sizes anC
varying cOlOrS. Cushions are also cover
ed with narrow ribbons feather stitched
together, after the fashion of the ole
time crazy quilts, and exceedingly eff
fective is this cover when the ribbons
are selected with an eye to a pleasan
combination of colors.
The ever popular denims afford thu
most scrviCcablo material for the mark
ing Of all sorts of cushions and pillows
Denim possesses the additional merit o
withstanding the laundry, an importan
item when the pillows are in cOnstan
use Blue denim enhanced with band
of Irish Point embroidery is dccidcdl
pleasing in effect. Denim pillows ar
also decorated with what is known a
novelty braid embroidery. The novelt
braid is composed of oponwork medal
lions having picots Or loops on each SIC
l and connected by narrow closely wove
e strips. The pattern selected, the brai
/, is fastened down with sewing silk Col
= and silver braid embroidery is SOM
e times employed on denim; but, as
,. rule, this style of ornamentation is r
i served for material that cannot be laul
7 dered.
Floor cushions are dividing favo
with the regulation footstool, but thu
have not banished this old time col
venience. Many of these cushions a
simply immense pillows, usually squa
in form and covered with some hea'
serviceable material, while others a