United States or United Arab Emirates ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Night before last Lydia got playing the piano for me in the darkened parlor, and the old tunes from her dear little fingers sent me off in a sea of dreams. She too caught the vision, and launched off in a well-remembered quadrille. The same scene flashed on us, and at each note, almost, we would recall a little circumstance, charming to us, but unintelligible to Anna, who occupied the other side. Together we talked over the dramatis personæ. Mrs. Morgan, Jr., in dark blue silk with black flounces, a crimson chenille net on her black hair, sits at the piano in her own parlor. On the Brussels carpet stands, among others, Her Majesty, Queen Miriam, in a lilac silk, with bare neck and arms save for the protection afforded by a bertha of appliqué lace trimmed with pink ribbon, with hair
A Suggested Color Scheme Walls Papered in a soft gray-rose, allover design paper. Woodwork Cream paint. Floor Hardwood Rag rugs, with rose stripes or a gray chenille carpet. Softwood Battleship gray paint, with rag rugs or rose chenille carpet. Suggested List of Furnishings Bed Single Painted ivory or cream four post, or with some low, simple headboard.
This picture had for name, "Faith," and was bordered with a red plush mat and a frame of imitation beaten brass. A door hung with chenille portieres a bargain at two dollars and a half admitted one to the bedroom. The bedroom could boast a carpet, three-ply ingrain, the design being bunches of red and green flowers in yellow baskets on a white ground.
Very dignified proceedings, certainly, for girls twelve and thirteen years old. An unspeakably important matter to quarrel about—a piece of white chenille! Angry people, be it remembered, are not given to over-much dignity, and how many quarrels are of the slightest importance?
He asked Albert to dinner, and desired him to bring Uncle Christopher, if they chose to be entertained by the ladies alone, further offering him a seat in his cab as far as their roads lay together. Highly gratified, Albert proceeded to ask his sister whether she was able to execute a commission for Matilda, the matching of a piece of chenille.
The leaves were about half-grown and half-colored, which means that they displayed an elegance of texture and hue most pleasing to see. And the flowers there they were, hanging under the twigs in long clusters of what I might describe as ends of chenille, if it were not irreverent to compare these delicate greenish catkins with anything man-made!
Scraps of ingrain wall papers may be had from dealers for little or nothing. Cover paper in good colors may be purchased by the sheet. Tailor's paper and brown wrapping paper serve well, and are sold by the roll at a low price. Weaving Materials. Rugs may be made from carpet rags, rug yarns, rovings, chenille, or jute; towels from crochet cotton; and hammocks from macramé cord or carpet warp.
Town and county were in a pleased, tortured, ante-boom consciousness that, first thing you know, there would be a new Canaan. Some new streets were laid out; a number of people bought chenille portières; and though Crittenton Madeira quietly drew his money out of the Grange, for other and weightier uses, the Grange secured new capital elsewhere and flourished mightily.
"As for Jocky Black," continued my grandmother, "the pomp of the atomy 'In the name of the law, says he I'd law him! I would e'en nip his bit stick from his puir twisted fingers and gie him his paiks that is, if it were worth the trouble! As for me, get me my bonnet, Jen my best Sunday leghorn with the puce chenille in it I must look my featest going to a great house to pay my respects.
What designs are possible and desirable for the materials we have to use? Rug Weaving Materials. The market offers a wide variety of materials prepared especially for school use. Among them the most satisfactory for use with small workers are cotton rovings, loose twisted jute, and cotton chenille.
Word Of The Day