San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
CURTAINS AND PoRTlEREs.
Novel and Elective Styles For the Com
ing Season.


Novel and Effective Styles For the Com
ing Season.
The newest things in curtains are lace
ones deliberately decorated with ribbon
work The designs are floral and are
very pronounced. When carried out on
cream nets with white satin ribbons of
various widths. the effect is very strik-
ing. This is only one item of many re-
ported in the New York Sun by
writer who had been interviewing deal
ers in curtains for the coming season.
Following is additional information
from this same source:
The newest curtains have centers of
plain coarse nets, with an edge of lace
and an inner border of ribbon work.
One pair of curtains whose design is
particularly beautiful has an edge of
renaissance lace s or 10 inches deep,
with an inner border 12 inches wide of
Marie Antoinette design, showing long
handled baskets filed with flowers and
caught together with bowknots. The
baskets, flowers and bowknots are all
worked in cream satin ribbons of vari-
Gus widths. The centers of these cur
tains are of plain white bobinet. The
design on another curtain is combina
tion of renaissance, Egyptian and Ma
RE Antoinette styles
In curtains of brussels lace the great
est change is in the plain borders and
plain centers. The edges of the new
brussels curtains have plain hens in
stead of the old fashioned scallop Lace
curtains in deep cream promise to be
more popular than ever, and there are
two new styles, both of French origin.
Terera curtains, the handsomest of
these, have center of plain net almost
as heavy and coarse as Russian lace,
with border of a floral scroll design
in lace which appears to be COM
bination of royal battenberg and Ouch
ess The other new curtains have deep
openwork border made up of brussels
lace, Irish point and tambour work.
For bedrooms Irish point and tam
bour net will take the place of swiss
and the various muslins which for sew
eral years have been so popular These
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in price than heretofore japanese silks
will be extensively used in bedrooms for
curtains as well as draperies. The new
est comes of double width in deep rich
colors, with grotesque figures of trees,
flowers and occasionally animals several
feet in height. There is a double width
cotton fabric in excellent imitation of
bagdad, which is new and cheap and
will be much used for bedroom dra-
peries. The new cretonnes are all dou-
BILE width, with floral designs, brilliant
in coloring and gigantic in size.
For portieres and heavier curtains the
newest is heavy silk MORE with deep
knotted fringe top and bottom. These
curtains come in white and all shades,
with fringe varying in depth from four
inches to one foot In the various quail
tiles of silk or wool damasks the newest
designs are Syrian and Moorish. The
figures and colorings are larger and
more brilliant than have been used in a
dozen or more years Bead portieres
will be used. and the most popular is
the style known as Jobs tears I"
Bamboo curtains, which are much
cheaper than those made of beads, come
for next season more reasonable in
price, though better in quality and col
oring, than ever before.