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COLOR NOTES in DECORATED 
House & Garden 
NEW 
SHADES 
Where and How to Use Glazed Chintz and Painted Shades—The Cur¬ 
tains to Accompany Them—Oil Cloth Shades for Camp and Nurseries 
AGNES FOSTER WRIGHT 
Glazed Chintz 
the curtain itself. The cost is slight and 
one has something handsome and unusual. 
Italian beads can be had at any bead store. 
If these are not available, painted or dyed 
wooden buttons would do. 
Patterns in Chintz 
Hewitt 
Sash curtains of sunfast can be used 
over the decorated shade and drawn 
back to leave the glazed chintz design 
silhouette. The curtains are rose sun- 
fast, the shades old rose on tan ground. 
This is a corner of the House & Garden 
reception room 
C URIOUSLY enough, it is the per¬ 
son who has a real view to look 
at—the country person—who has made 
the most use of decorative window 
shades. They would seem more of a 
boon to the city dweller, who looks out 
on to hideous courts or deadly dull 
streets or into her neighbor’s windows. 
Why don’t we begin at home and make 
our window shades so absolutely fasci¬ 
nating that we look only at them, instead 
of into our neighbor’s windows across 
the way? 
This is the “moral” advantage of 
decorative window shades. 
The artistic advantage is obvious, but 
for the benefit of the person who does 
not live within a stone’s throw of a high 
class furnishing store or an interior 
decorator something may be said in ex¬ 
planation of them. 
Glazed chintz makes the best sort of 
window shades. It is really nothing 
more than old-fashioned cambric with a 
more or less highly glazed surface. The 
best quality of Holland shade has a 
rough surface; the chintz glazed shade 
has a shiny one. The cloth is stiff but 
not brittle. It comes from England 
usually. Some firms which carry an 
attractive cretonne or chintz will have it 
glazed for a customer. This can¬ 
not be done with linen, which 
fails to take glazing satisfactorily. 
The stiffest glazed chintz comes 
28" or 31" wide. It is seldom 
that one finds a 50" side glazed 
chintz, unless the glaze is so slight 
as to make it impractical for 
shades. Such material should be 
used as side curtains and valances 
made up with a stiff box plaiting 
and the side curtains pleated and 
made to “stay put,” not to draw 
back and forth. . 
Very often we have on hand 
shade rollers on which may be j 
tacked glazed chintz shades. The j 
sides must be even if the chintz 
is not exactly the proper width, J 
but if possible select a pattern j 
the width of the roller, leaving the j 
selvage on the end. 
For a tassel get some linen floss | 
of one of the colors of the pattern. j 
Tie the tassel to the shade with 
cord of another color. Good look- J 
ing tassels are made by tying the 
floss at the top, slipping on a but¬ 
ton to hold the ring, then a dull 
Italian bead and then a ring. 
Then loop the tassel cord through 
Gillies I 
| 
The curtains should be simple, leaving i 
the shades to be the must prominent 
decorative feature. This is shown in 
the sun room above, which is at the 
residence of E. P. Charlton, Esq., 
Westport Harbor, Rhode Island. Far¬ 
ley & Hooper, Architects 
As a rule glazed chintz comes in bed¬ 
room patterns, similar to the patterns of 
English block prints. Chintz of this type 
should not be used for living rooms or 
formal dining-rooms. Like all new things 
they are very often misused. Glazed chintz 
shades should be used in exactly the way 
employed for similar linens and cretonnes. 
Light tone floral patterns should be hung 
at bedroom windows or—which seems the 
ideal place for them—in breakfast rooms, 
and enclosed porches. 
Some beautiful formal designs come in 
rich, deep colorings. These are most ef¬ 
fective in a dining-room, or, in fact, in 
any room where linen or cretonne could be 
suitably used. A particularly appropriate 
and striking chintz for shades comes 50" 
wide with a black or grayish blue, mul¬ 
berry or buff background and baskets of 
luscious, highly decorative fruits. When 
chintz is used as a window shade no side 
curtains are needed. Simply make a 
shaped flat valance coming down very deep 
on the sides. This will conceal the roller 
and gives a finish to the window which the 
roller shades alone do not do. An¬ 
other glazed chintz, particularly 
suitable for the dining-room, comes 
in a white background with a blue 
and gray border and garlands of 
fruit in which clear lemon yellow 
predominates. The simplest glazed 
chintz for shades is striped. This 
comes in many combinations—pink 
and white or green and white being 
the most effective. 
For the enclosed porch nothing is 
nicer than the patterns with bril¬ 
liant plumaged birds and flowers. 
If the window casing is deep it is 
best to use a plain tone drapery 
outside the casing, as the window 
shade by itself seems meagre. Keep 
to a plain fabric, however. The 
patterned shade will give all the 
decoration a window should have. 
The old rule of giving full value to 
one decorative thing by eliminating 
others holds particularly true here. 
A wonderfully effective combina¬ 
tion for a window shade is to use 
a glazed chintz with a small all- 
over diaper pattern in soft tans, and 
for the valances and side curtains 
chintz with the same background 
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