The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-06
AT MODERATE COST
HOUSES MAY BE FURNISHED IN
ARTISTIC STYLE.
Special Attention Is Now Being Paid
to the Designing Of Moderate
Priced Fabrics Of Every
Shade and Color.

A woman who is furnishing re-
cently-built house told friend that II
was now the easiest thing in the world
to get furniture covering of the style,
the color and the grade preferred,
says the New York Sun.
In the store where l placed my or
der" said she, there were hundreds
of varieties to select, representing al
most as many grades OF price. AS
result l think will have a very artis-
tic house at relatively small cost"
At the store where she shopped
man who has been handling the up
holstery goods for 80 years said that
manufacturers and retailers now paid
special attention to the designing of
moderate priced fabrics, for the rea-
son that the demand for them was far
ahead of the demand for the cheapest
or the costliest. AS an illustration he
showed jutes, cotton reps, mercerized
reps and cotton tapestries, all of which
he said are in great demand at this
time of the year, which included de-
signs and colors as good as those in
high-priced goods.
Cotton tapestries, for instance, used
extensively for bedrooms and plain liv-
ing-rooms may be had in nearly any
shade of art green, in old Venetian
red, old rose, ecru or brown, both self
toned and two-toned. One design In
jasper effects showed small French
wreaths of old rose on an ecru ground.
One OF the newest patterns had five
inch long, very narrow bars of cham
payne or cream color on a green, red
or rose background.
Some Of the jutes look like and feel
like oriental fabrics and they cost only
from 81 to 50 yard and are so inches
wide. The ground color in the most
beautiful is champagne, patterned
with inch and half stripes in tiny
flower design done in Persian colors.
Between these stripes, which are five
inches apart, are small oblongs OF
Persian colors. Other designs in oval
have stripes, wreaths or oblongs of
beautifully blended colors on a smoke
color, gray or cream ground. Some
charming French wreath designs are
self-toned.
The mercerized cotton rep, which
like the others is stout, strong and a
good wearer and has a silk-like finish,
is shown in three wales, the widest
nearly a quarter of an inch, and the
greens and reds and ecrus are the
most effective.
New basket weaves and colors dis
tinguish the arras cloths, classed also
among the inexpensive upholstery fab
RIGS and more popular perhaps than
any for use in dens and studios in
town and in foyer halls and living
rooms out of town.
Going up the scale, the expert said
that wooden rep in plain colors was
one of the best wearing and for the
time being best liked fabrics for up
holstering foyer halls and living
rooms both in and out of New York,
the paler green's and yellower ecrus
being popular shades.
Plain colors are the rule for IL
try colors and effects being reserved
for drawing rooms and the costlier
grades of goods, that is If purchasers
want to follow the trend of fashion
and the most artistic weaves.
Mohair glace is the technical name
for what looks like a cross between
panne velvet and dull satin, and this |
is a favorite for parlors and living |
rooms and is suitable also for libraries
because OF its stout qualities. This
is of plain colors, very dull green per
haps the favorite.