Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1912 — CURTAINS MAY BE RENOVATED [ARTICLE]

CURTAINS MAY BE RENOVATED

Simple Process Hprs Described That Will Make Them Almost as " Good a# New. Have you a pair of good lace cup* tains that are too old to hang up as they are? Try this method of treating them and you will not regret it: - Applique the lace on a foundation of thin silk of rose shade. Baste each curtain very neatly on its foundation and cut away the lace net whenever you find it worn through the border and outline the pattern in linen, of, If you prefer it, In silk floss of the rose colored shade. If the plain & is in - good preservation dot it over with a spray design worked in 5 th* same floss or silk. You will find the effect extremely good, combining the airiness of lace -with the handsomeness of brocade. Moreover, you will have curtains as good as new whlcß will last s6me time if carefully cleaned when soiled. Curtains such as these were seen recently in a living room in the country where they had hung, in the windows for eighteen months and they looked perfectly fresh. Blue, green, brown or any other color may be adopted of course as a foundation to suit the room of the worker. .