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Show WOMAN'S WORLD New Window Treatments Pay Dividends in Home Decorations By Ertta Haley Travel Coat Did you know that new window treatments in your home will pay you more in decorating dividends divi-dends than anything else that you can do to a room? Windows can be such a striking feature, even though they are small, and they can be treated decoratively, at less expense ex-pense than furniture or walls. Old curtains and draperies may often be used as the means for decorating windows, il they lend themselves to new color by dyeing or simple trimming like fringe or ruffle. If old draperies are worn and cannot be dyed, they can frequently frequent-ly be turned inside out and used again. This is particularly true of velvet, velveteen or corduroy. Cotton Cot-ton fabrics, such as homespun or muslin types, can be dyed readily. Remnants will often yield enough material to utilize for trimming, too. Check over old formals, feed lacks, old sheer curtains or pieces of materials picked up at sales. Combined Com-bined cleverly with what you have In the way of draperies or curtains, you can come up with good window win-dow treatments. Do your planning of the new project proj-ect with a flair, and don't get sidetracked side-tracked with an easier but less effective way of doing the job 'once you're in the midst of it. Some 1 'A " ' ' ' - U f 4 V ' J r r4 r 1 't ' K r ",," s U - ' ' l - fk s ",-w4s . if i ( '' ' " Lightweight red tweed with textured interest is used in this Interesting travel coat. Its , crossover front is belted in with red leather, while the sleeves are full and worn pushed up to the elbow, or slightly below. - Double ruffles add color .... effects planned have to be carried out with good workmanship and care, if they are to be effective, so plan to give these the utmost in attention to detail. If you don't want to re-do the whole room, choose a window treat-i treat-i ment that will not make the walls and furnishings look too shabby, and thus force you to go further in your efforts at decoration. Use Fringe, Ruffles On Old Draperies Fringe trimming can be used in both modern and traditional rooms. It's an excellent way to trim old drapes and curtains, because of its easy application. You may have fringe from an old pair of drapes that can be dyed to suit your new scheme. It may also be purchased in different colors. Use matching -or contrasting fringe for any of the following suggestions. An old pair of turned draperies can be treated to a fringe decoration decora-tion in "V" formation, using three and the other of plain material that contrasts well with the predominant pre-dominant color of the print, make two rows of ruffles and hang at the top. Use the print on top of the plain. Old sheeting is excellent to use for ruffles, as described above, for it can be dyed any color to match the printed cloth which is picked from a remnant counter or is left from an old cotton bedspread or drapes. For dining or living rooms, you can make old sheer curtains look double or triple their original value val-ue simply by adding rows of ruffle to panel curtains. Then dye the whole panel with the ruffles the same shade, something which will go well in the room. Sheer and panel curtains In contrasting con-trasting shades can be used on the same windows. The panel curtains may be light in shade, while the sheer curtains, hung over them in .the manner of draperies, could be the darker color. Both sets of curtains cur-tains should be full to give a luxurious lux-urious look to the windows. Striped wallpaper in a room frequently fre-quently gives rise to a curtain problem. Solve it easily by using white sheer curtains tied back with a tailored bow. Use a cornice over the curtains, with a tailored bow at the center. Cornice and tiebacks may match the stripe in the wallpaper. wall-paper. Use Feed Sacks For Curtains Feed sacks offer excellent curtain cur-tain material because their textures tex-tures are so interesting, and the fabric source so economical. Dye them into the desired color, and use one of the following treatments for them. Using two or three feed sacks for each side of the curtain, depending de-pending on the length of the window, win-dow, stitch them together and place a ruffle of feed sack or other ma- sip fll II mi IP n and tnnge adds style. rows of fringe coming just about at the center of the drape. If dyed to a bright shade that contrasts nicely with the drapes, this can be effective. If your room is modern in conception, con-ception, you can us any plain material ma-terial for draperies, the more textured tex-tured the fabric, the better. Add narrow fringe to the draperies in graduated rows, starting with one row at the top, followed several inches lower with two rows, then three and four rows. Fringe may also be used as the edging on coarse net curtains. This is especially good on single windows win-dows such as you would find in a hall, dinette or bathroom. For washable curtains, simply baste the fringe on. or sew it to a strip of snaps such as you might use for attaching a cover to the dressing table Remove the fringe before laundering and then snap it on again after the curtains are clean Ruffles don't even have to be of the same material as the curtains to which they're attached. Another nice idea to know in this respect is that two different materials can be used to ruffle trim the same window. Curtains Look Expensive With These Tricks For kitchen or bathroom, use a deep ruffle at the top of the window. win-dow. Add three or four rows of ruffling to the lower half of the half curiam. All the ruffles can be dyed in darker or lighter shades of the same color, yellow, green, pink or blue. For a narrow row of kitchen windows, win-dows, here's a neat idea: Using two kinds of material, one of print terial at each seaming. These should be of the. same color. For informal rooms, such as dens, play rooms or nurseries, plan to use sacks dyed in several colors col-ors to give a rainbow or circus effect. ef-fect. These may be attached to a wooden pole at the top of the window win-dow by means of wooden rings. Small windows strung in a line across the room, such as you might have in an attic or basement room can be treated nicely with several sacks hung to sill length. Use sacks of one color, but have the cornice in a contrasting shade. Bathroom windows can be inexpensively inex-pensively dressed with feed sacks since they can be dyed to match the towels. Cottage type curtains, or straight-hanging curtains with a ruffle at the top are excellent. If desired, the ruffle may be in a contrasting solid color or print. Here's a good treatment for a bay window. Dye enough feed sacks to use for a ruffle at the top of the windows, and for draping two sides, in a dark color, preferably a room color. On the windows themselves, use Priscilla curtains tinted in a curtain shade, or in plain white. Keep Materials Moving In the Dye Bath When yqu're dyeing materials, the important thing to remember is that they be kept moving constantly constant-ly to get an even shade of dye as well as to prevent any streaking. You may use whatever utensil Is handy, but the larger the better. Use a bath or laundry tub, a large basin or vessel, a preserving kettle ket-tle or large wash boiler. Light shades can be tinted with tap water, but darker shades require re-quire simmering temperatures. One package of dye is usually enough for three yards of material. |