Our homes, and how to beautify them . are—if onemay venture on a little effeminacy of phrase—dreams of loveliness. I ha^?emy mental eye on a brocade of a soft silvery ground, on which is woven adelicate but elaborate design of flowers and ribbons in exquisitely tinted shadesof yellow, pink, and blue. I can picture another artistic harmony of pale salmonpink and silver thread, of finely decorative value, and as beautiful as the sky atthe first blush of dawn. But it would need a poet to do justice to suchentrancing arrangements of colour and such fine qualities of texture ; and thereare other fa
Our homes, and how to beautify them . are—if onemay venture on a little effeminacy of phrase—dreams of loveliness. I ha^?emy mental eye on a brocade of a soft silvery ground, on which is woven adelicate but elaborate design of flowers and ribbons in exquisitely tinted shadesof yellow, pink, and blue. I can picture another artistic harmony of pale salmonpink and silver thread, of finely decorative value, and as beautiful as the sky atthe first blush of dawn. But it would need a poet to do justice to suchentrancing arrangements of colour and such fine qualities of texture ; and thereare other fabrics awaiting consideration. TAPESTRIES AND VELVETS. TN dining rooms, billiard rooms and studies, tapestries are frequenth- andappro[)riately used for the curtains and the upholstering. There are tluee<|ualities, cotton, cotton and wool, and pure wool; the first ranging from 26 to5/0 a yard, the second from 5/6 to 10/0, and the tliird from jo/o to 63 o,according to the quahty of tlie wool. Although more connected witli wall.
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