"DRESSING” THE BED

Shannon News, 10 July 1928, Page 4

"DRESSING” THE BED

NOVEL COLOUR SCHEMES. The conventions of generations are being upset in the ‘dressing” of modern beds. Older-fashioned housewives rejoiced in the daintiness of all-white beds, snowy linen, white blankets (stitched with red!), white mareella coverlids, and white valences. These, compared with the heavy damask 'draperies in dreary crimsons and greens of their youthful recollection, seemed delightfully fresh-looking. But the lipme-lover of to-day finds this all-white ideal uninspiring. The trend is all for colour, beautiful shades chosen with unerring taste, and so every bed has its; distinctive colour scheme. Even the sheets and pillowslips tone in with the blankets, bedspread and eiderdown in many well-planned schemes of decoration. There is much to be said for the coloured sheet and pillowcases, in large, towns, where laundry problems have to be surmounted and. white linen is apt to acquire a grey look. . The bed clothing in the modern honiecraft,design by Jack Daro follows a periwinkle blue colour scheme. The bedstead itself is of characteristic modern type and is fitted with a box spring mattress and hair overlay. Sheets and pillowcases are of pure Irjsh, linen, hemstitched in a vandyked design. The blankets are of soft, pure wpol—good quality blankets are an economy in the end- —the top blanket in; periwinkle blue being bound with silk. Natural-cploured linen is the choice. for thb bedspread, the original vandyked border being in periwinkle blue with a double piping of natural gifen linen. Blue shot with green silk covers, the eiderdown—an effective touch is sup-. plipd by the cushion covered in 'blue, grfon and black. Either embroidery or, applique work, which has-the merit of (being quickly done, may be used for thq decoration of cushion and bedspread. ■