People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — New Draperies. [ARTICLE]

New Draperies.

Among tbe new materials for draperies is a lattice cloth which comes in shades of terra ootta or of apple green. The fabric, though it is of cotton, has a lilky appearanoe. It hangs in beautiful soft folds, but requires lining. With draperies of this doth striped wall papers that harmonize are used. Another new staff for draperies in boudoirs, small bedrooms or little drawing rooms is known as tbe oolonial cross stripe. It, too, is a cotton, most frequently in a soft shade at green, with tbe stripes in blaok A mare desirable color in tbe same fabric is of bine, with stripes of white, bordered by darker bine than the ground. A plain stuff of tbe same color and weave Is used with these draperies for tbe side walls of rooms.