February, 1923 
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Decorations for the walls of a room can be suggested 
by almost any object in it. T.n this case old needle-point 
chairs supplied the inspiration for the treatment of 
the walls, which are painted to simulate needle-point 
A ROOM IN PAINTED 
NEEDLE 
I N THE London home of 
Francis Harper, who is well 
known for having collected 
things of rare beauty and interest, 
is an old wooden wainscoted room 
which long ago some clever artist 
was inspired to paint to go with 
four beautiful old needle-point 
chairs and a quaint old settle. He 
took the story worked on the pan¬ 
eled seat and back of each piece 
of furniture and used it for the 
design of a wall panel. The rich 
reds, soft blues and dull greens 
of the worsted are echoed beauti¬ 
fully in the colors of the walls. 
The woodwork in the room be¬ 
longs to the 16th Century and 
Time has been kindly to it, mel¬ 
lowing it to a beautiful gray- 
greenish brown, a color conducive 
to dignity and restfulness. Even 
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the old corner cabinet with its 
Lowestoft plates and china bears 
out the same feeling. 
The windows are draped with 
long, loose lengths of colored 
gauze which form a combination 
of the colors portrayed in the wall. 
At the center of each window 
hangs the gray-green gauze of the 
sky, blending into deeper blue, 
which in turn fades into grayish 
brown as it leaves the woodwork. 
The “embroidery walls”, as 
they are called, relieve the mono¬ 
tony of what one so often feels 
in small paneled rooms of too 
much woodwork—that impression 
of being “boxed in”. 
The general color scheme of 
the room is grayish green- 
brown. The entire walls are 
covered with the decorations 
