. American homes and gardens. Linens and cottons of loose weaves are among the most attractive fabrics for Summer curtains things about them, and once they have found just the right tain. This, especially in colored fabrics, gives a better effectcurtain for a particular room wish it to last as long as it to the window. For casement windows in a bedroom it iswill and regret the time necessary to have over-cur-when the fabrics fade or be- tains hung on a rod extend-come full of holes and must 9 ing across the group of win-be renewed. dows, if several small case- Regarding the making ofcurtains—t
. American homes and gardens. Linens and cottons of loose weaves are among the most attractive fabrics for Summer curtains things about them, and once they have found just the right tain. This, especially in colored fabrics, gives a better effectcurtain for a particular room wish it to last as long as it to the window. For casement windows in a bedroom it iswill and regret the time necessary to have over-cur-when the fabrics fade or be- tains hung on a rod extend-come full of holes and must 9 ing across the group of win-be renewed. dows, if several small case- Regarding the making ofcurtains—their properlengths for windows of vari-ous shapes and sizes—somehints may not come amiss. For the usual type of highand rather narrow plateglass window, having thesash raised with pulleys inthe window frame, it is wellto have the rods for thin cur-tains placed just inside theflat window casing using soc-ket fixtures. The length ofthe curtain may be a little. ments make up the window,and these over-curtainsshould be of a materialheavy enough to exclude thelight. A novel and beautifulcotton print having a brightflowered pattern on a back-ground of black is a revivalof an old English style. Thepattern is Chinese copiedfrom antique Chinese fabrics are printedfrom hand blocks and aretherefore rather expensive,running from $ to $ Simple but attractive curtaining longer than the window itself as after washing it will shrink per yard. These patterns are printed in several colors as and then just touch the sill—which is the proper length for to the background and flowers. Some have birds, also giv their curtains. Casement windows openingwith hinges either into the room or out fromthe window must have the curtain for each sashhung on a rod fastened to the upper part ofthe sash itself, bringing the curtain close againstthe sash and in length just to the sill. As case-ment windows are usually much shorter thanthose of plate gl
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