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Show ! fF- cm the rn I 7 E KNOW that the 'lEi-Meenth. " Century is often 'Ci the-golden the-golden age of the cabinet makers. We know that the English cabi- I net makers, Chippendale, Hcpple-Rhite, Hcpple-Rhite, Sheraton and the Adam arothers, flourished then and that their work was copied by our own km 1 - rip" i) r. i w th rti i or ape ry vji cabinet makers of the late Colonial Colo-nial period. The furniture types of their day have become standard stand-ard with us but we seldom stop to think about the kind of curtains and graperies that were originally original-ly used with this furniture. Visitors to the reconstructed village of Williamsburg, Va., are often surprised to find that Venetian blinds were the fashion long before the Revolution, and the well tailored canvas lined valance used with floor length chintz draperies also seem modern to them. Yet these were the curtain cur-tain styles when ladies and gentlemen wore powdered wigs. Valances were made Just as we make them today and were tacked to a valance board in pretty much the same manner as is shown here. NOTE This Is the second of a series or modern adaptations of period curtain fashions. Another version of the shaped! type of valance is given in BOOK 5 of the series of ten booklets on sowing for 1 the home. To get copy of Book 5 send 15 cents direct to: I MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York I Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 5. Name Address |