The sun., 1908-12-13
NOVELTIES IN SOFA PILLOWS
MANY ODDITIES IN MODERATE
PRICED CUSHIONS.

Rough Materials and simple DecOra
tIOns the Most Favored -CRash. Bur
Iap. Suede and Linen Are Mere Il
Favor Than the Expensive Materials
The popularity Of the nat the studio
the small apartment 10 responsible To-
the growing popularity Of tho couch bed
which In turn is responsibie for the eve
increasing popularity Of the couch pillow
For each variety OF sofa pillow onct
shown fifty varieties are now Offered
TO eager shoppers. This year the varietiel
are legion, ranging In price from 81 to s5'
or more. Manufacturers. however
have been especially careful 10 multiply
the medium grade varieties to furnish
many entirely new designs In the ex.
anples used mostly for dens. sitting roomi
and the modern parlor' bedroom.
OF these medium grade pillows thu
varieties most popular with shopper
Of some artistic taste are made Of strong
durable. easily laundered fabrics. In
fact the palmer and rohgher the material
the more stylish it Ia accounted, some oi
the most admired cushions being made oi
craftsman cloth, of burlap, OF canvas OF
Of mummy cloth.
There is not the slightest need this
year for wasting the gas and incidentally
ones eyesight over elaborate decorations
for the pillow to be given 10 a college
friend or bachelor woman at Christmas
Something far less intricate Is likely Ia
be more appreciated.
Common crash-gray. green, dark red
is. for example. now classed among the
best materials for couch pillows. and
here lie a design which Is recommended
by the needlevork experts. Draw hall
q dozen circles about the size OF a hall
dollar In irregular fashion over one-hali
only Of the pillow cover. Fill these In
with heavy wool foss in long stitches
the longer and looser the better- using
pillow material, and outline with third
color. Thus gray crash pillow worked
with red wool floss. the circles outlined
with dun green. the edges finished with O
thick cord Of gray and green, ID included
among the artistic examples made TO re-
tail for about s.. A deft ncedIewoman
could make such a pillow In o couple oi
evenings and at one-third the cost.
A still easier and equally stylish pillow
of craftsman cloth IN gray 10 adorned
with irregular shaped appliqu6s Of green
cloth about four by five inches one In each
corner or three smaller sppliques placed
across the top half Of the pillow and worked
around the edge with n iooss over and
over stitch done IN brick red silk floss.
Another pillow Of the same description,
dull green In color. is trimmed with
appliqued disks five by two inches Of or
ange color. fastened down with loose.
long stitches Of brown floss.
Substitute fine braid for an embroidery
stitch and the result is equally stylish and
easier to get. In some moro elaborate
examples many small circles and disks
OF perhaps two or three different colors
are appliqued to the pillow with very fine
cord. which is continued in fancy loop
deeign between the rounds and disks.
In this case the appliqnes ars Of a tride
finer crash than the body Of the pillow.
The same idea may be carried out with
really beautiful results and small cost
in canvas and cFetonne. in burlap and
cretonne or In rough art linen and ore
tonne. .
The burlap. canvas or linen used for the
body Of the pillow u preferably Of wood
brown, some shade Of dull green. Of soft
red, gray or ecru. Tho appliqles, cut
from French oretcnne. may be small or
large, Of fioral or conventional design and
any preferred color. Linen or silk foes
ia suitable for Fastening down the edges.
French cretonne IL recommended because
OF the greater variety Of small patterns
and art colors shown In the seventy
five cent and 81 yard varieties. One
quarter of yard. supposing the design
is small, is enough to decorate one pillow
patterns at that.
A comparatively inexpensiye and quite
new variety of canvas pillow 10 decorated
with stamped figures Of different sorts
across the lower half, They are then
finished in outline stitch. The upper
half Of the pillow is plain. Thus svioiets.
Sweet violets.' is worked In simple loop
stitch under q pair of pretty girls heads
leaning toward each other outlined with
long violet stitches. A few, scattered
vielets done IN outline stitch decorate
one corner of the pillow. which 10 Of natural
orav lipen finished at the 0dRe with viO-