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House & Garden 
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FABRICS AS WALL COVERINGS 
How Canvas, Scrim, Tapestry and Cretonne Can Be 
Made to Give Individuality and Distinction to a Room 
The range of house furnishing and interior decoration is so great that it ts 
practically impossible to exhaust all the subjects and all the problems that arise. 
There are. for example, dozens of ways to treat the wall — paper, paint, stencil, 
paneling, mural paintings, mirrors. If your problem is not answered here, write 
The Information Service, House & Garden, 19 West 44 th Street, New York 
Fairchild 
Canvas stretched on the 
wall as a foundation for a 
coat of paint and panels 
made with molding is an 
effective and inexpensive 
treatment. Skilled work¬ 
manship must be insisted on 
A tapestry 
furnishes a 
rich b a ck- 
ground. The 
furniture 
placed in 
front of it 
should be 
simple and 
low in con¬ 
struction. The 
tapestry is the 
thing 
The walls of the library to 
the right were covered with 
canvas, painted and sten¬ 
cilled with a large design in 
subdued colors. Above is a 
frieze of painted leather. W. 
L. Bottomley, architect 
Walls hung with silk, scrim or net in 
soft folds give an air of great quiet and 
rest to a room. The wall trim should 
be exposed here and there to provide 
relief to the eye. This treatment is not 
advisable for large rooms. It is best 
in bedrooms and boudoirs 
The method of applying cretonne or 
linen panels is practically the same as 
that used with canvas; the fabric is 
stretched on flat, the panel defined with 
molding and the intervening spaces 
painted. Here the large built-in mirror 
is an integral part of the wall 
Hewitt 
