New Britain herald., 1930-10-08

Floor coverings take on new im- portance as the interiors of our homes dress up for the elegant era in which we will spend the winter, and in all probability many more winters and summers to come. The reign of a single solid color on floors is over. A two-toned rug now than one color. Floral or oth- CT patterned carpets and rugs are in the ascendency.
 Of course, you can add ans in- teresting floral touch or a distin- gushing design to your floors by the use of small rug or two. This is an especially good trick to use in spots which get unusual wear-in front of the davenport, buffet, under the most popular easy chair in the house. by the library table.
 New rugs are patterned, many of them in 18th century English, Early American, Directoire and Empire designs and in Italian Renaissance, Jacobean and French Louis effects.
 Red, including mulberry and light rose; green and blue promise in creasing popularity this winter. ac- cording to forecasts from the car- pet industry.
 Corenations in Vogue Two-colof combinations that are being bought include black and gray, brown and taupe, green and silver, and two tones of green. A three-color selection that is most pleasing includes powder blue, ashes of roses and green, soft colors that will give a restrained elegance to a room.
 In addition to the floral and other conventional designs, sev- eral unique patterns are being in troduced this fall. One of these is pattern adapted from snake skin.
 Hooked rugs and rag rugs used in conjunction with Colonial or other Provincial furniture, never were better.
 American rug manufacturers are reproducing many of the old mas terpieces which are exhibited in mu- seums, leading richness in color and an Oriental touch to domestic floor coverings. Among the motifs copied are Indian, Cashmere, the Tabris Iran, Bijar and Sarouk types. Mill improvements in this country have made unusually fine work possible. In selecting a rug, as you un- doubtedly know. everything else III the room must be considered. Large rugs should be fairly subdued, | If they are to fit in with the chairs. ] tables. davenport, pictures, drapes, lamps and so on. Small ones can be much gayer. The design of the little ones may even be quite com plicated, the colors arresting. But they should never clash, either in | design or color.
 | In Modernistic Mode Besides floral rugs and repro- auctions of old masters, and the other conventionally designed rugs, there are multitude of new mod ernlstlc rugs that have none of the objectionable arrogance of the first modern productions, but are suave Tn their lines and often tie up nica- " with lamp shades, window drapes or other decorations.
 Linoleums have been greatly improved until some of them are smart enough to walk into the sun parlor, the children's rooms the play room, sewing room. New marble-ized linoleum in dark duo tone combinations, spattern floor eff. fleets on dark backgrounds, tiled pat. terms in modern style and warm col. ored broken-tile designs of rus. brick and sage green are among these.
 A rugs life is placed at nine years, an average estimated bv ex. perts. It is put to harder use than olher articles of furniture, since the whole family and all guests and servants walk over it. One wa, to add to a rugs life eXpectancy.' as the insurance men would put it is to place a rug cushion beneath the rug. These are not expensiv, and make the rug softer to walk on las well