Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
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FABRICS WITH oID-TTME par
TERMS IN VOGUE.
Latest Things in Upholstery Go Back
to Medieval De-
signs.

Written for The Evening Star
Far be it from the mistress of i. f,sh-
1onable home of today to permit Of suob ~
congruities in her drawing room 40 a Diro,
tore gown spread, in it's multitudinons
foids, over the upholstery of 1904 chair.
or Louis XVI toilette silhouetted against
twentieth century hangings. She uses bet
ter Judgment in the fitness of things than
to ask her fashionable guests to lend them
serves 10 so inconsistent a setting She
mas at least one room done in the colors
and upholsteries of the periods which have
been so strenuously dragged to the front
this winter.
Tapestry squares, for setting into panels
In the wall and for upholstering chairs and
divans, have been revived, and importers
are showing them in elaborate designs and
exquisite textures. French scenes in the
early centuries and Holland barnyard pic
lures are seen in many of the larger
squares for couches and screens while the
bits for chairs, both back and seat are
more often worked in a single crown a
peasant figure or dragon head. These up
holsteries show to best advantage when
mounted on furniture of heavy carved oak
or mahogany.
French velour, both in fantastic designs
shades, are being used to upholster that
heavy black furniture which resembles
ebony. For a library where the light is
good this makes an effective furnishing,
especially If velour panels are inserted in
the walls as background for pictures.
Elaborate Effects.
The importations of silk damask for up
holstering drawing-room furniture or lux
urious boudoir chairs and couches are so
elaborate as almost to beggar description
One piece of silk damask with an ecru
background done in raised empire wreaths
In palest blues and pinks and festooned in
broad, raised bands of gold thread ribbon
sells for $40 yard. The embroidery is
done over a hand loom in the outskirts Of
Paris, and is fashioned after the old-time
upholsterfes of France. The material is
fifty-two inches wide, and each chair takes
two patterns, one for the back and one for
the seat. The size of the furniture will
regulate the proportion of one yard needed:
usually three-quarters of yard will suf-
flee. The drawing-room chair of the Louis
periods Is not large, and the frame shows
gold or gilt leaf.
A wool damask for more serviceable wear
comes in the old-fashioned designs, and
particularly popular this season are the
Nile green shades and maroons with de-
signs in yellow and gold tones. A good
wool damask for living-room furniture can
be purchased for 81 or So yard and as the
patterns are irregular and not in individual
designs there is no waste of the material
The machine-made silk damasks are to be
had for 81 and So per yard.
An upholstery called by shoppers satin
damask is nothing more than silk damask
finished in the glossy sheen of satin. 1t is
imported and costs all the way from $40
to $40 per yard. The domestic upholsteries
are being shown, but they lack the fneness
of weave which gives charm to the foreign
goods.
Much of the upholstery material for bou-
terflies and cupids, the latter frolicking over
the silk surface and interviewer with lovers
knots Of ribbon In glossy finish.