The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-02
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GiUen Floors
by Coverings
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
NEA Service Writer

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NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Stepping
on the modern rugs and carpets
isn't easy.
There was a time when rugs and
carpets were just a background for
the rest of the furniture. But row
they are laying themselves out to
attract some attention of their own.
Small rugs, especially, are scatter
ing their charms everywhere. These
scatter rugs, as they are called, are
choosing soft, gay colors. which
either match or contrast the dra-
peries Of a room.
Bedrooms are their most popular
setting. Modernistic designs, car
ried through several shades of the
same color, are being used in oval
rugs Of rayon texture.
CoIors Are Varied
Rayon stuff is made in ffty-two
colors, meeting every possible color
problem. Most prominent among
the bedroom colors r roses, greens,
amethyst, blues and a black-and-
white combination.
Many of the rayon rugs have
matching shower curtains and bath
mats, which help preserve the spirit
of harmony.
The oblong shape is the favorite
for bedrooms. Several are used in
the same room. When a room con-
tains twin beds freqently a rug is
used at the side Of each bed, and
one is placed between them. In
front Of the dressing table is an
other popular place for such a rug.
Chenille is tremendously popular
in the oval rugs, too. And there is
a tufted effect which shows flowers
in relief, that is having its innings.
Contrasting Weaves Effective
Mohair with a plain border OF
the same color, relying on the con-
trast in weave instead Of color for
its decorative effect, is another OF
the new offerings. Chenille rugs
are presented, too, in four shades
of the same color.
Wash rugs for nurseries are
among the most useful and color
full of modern floor coverings. Some
are cotton. Boats go sailing on blue
seas, menageries hold circuses, and
Mother Goose characters romp
across the rug surfaces.
One rug, which children particu-
larly adore, has an owl seated on
a limb of a tree, and another IA
vorite shows an elephant perched
on the moon.
The same modern blending OF col
ors, and rather square effect of de-
sign so noticeable in adult rugs is
featured in the children's depart
ment.
Trend Toward MOderniStic
The modernistic spirit of the
scatter rugs has crept into the full
size rugs and carpets. Large plaids,
gay as the p%roverbial steamer blan-
kets, lend a warm tone to a living
room that follows a gay informally.
These rugs are made by the peas
ants and farm women of Canada,
each one creating and using her
own design.
Breakfast hooks and colonial liv-
ing rooms frequently are shown
with such floor coverings.
Another group of rugs, equally
appropriate for living rooms and
bedrooms, is being made by certain
European mountain peasants who
are weaving their tribal designs into
their decorative schemes.
Here again gay colors, softened to
avoid any 1ambuoyancy, which is
entirely out of keeping with the
new mood, are used.
Tufted Rugs Popular
From Germany and France hand
tufted rugs are coming. They are
modernistic designs, leaning toward
a square pattern. A special feature
is the working of the designers name
into the rug, in a place where it will
be seen.
Machine-made rugs are following
like designs with unusual effective
ness.
While the old flower arrangement
that used to turn the living room
floor into a hollyhock or rose garden
is still included in the carpet and
rug designs, there has been a con-
siderable less blooming in such flow
er plots.
The new motif prefers lines and
squares, and either tones of the
same color, or those that will fit into
a common background.
Reunion tn Re Slated