CHAOTIC CUSHIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 299, 9 March 1928, Page 5

CHAOTIC CUSHIONS

By

JOAN ROSSITER

I The shape of your new cushions can ibe even more attractive than the ; materials from which they are made. Some are small, others are quite big, in squares, oblongs, circles, fan shapes, and one or two resemble huge shells. Simple cushions of velvet have pipings of black, while satin cushions in the same untrimmed shapes appeal to the modern woman of taste. One shop in town is making a show <*C velvet cushions, which consist of three broad strips. These cushions, in the bolster shape, display contrasting colours, an attractive design being light green, sandwiched between cerise and ourple, with black tassels at either end. A really durable cushion is made from squares of coloured repp, pieced together by thin strips of gold braid. Faille and taffeta are both handy in designing cushions to fall in with the | seasonable furnishing schemes. So many “cosy” colours appear in these fabrics, as purple, mauve and maroon j shading, in some instances, to black, ■ which is just right for this time of the year. | Silks spotted with futuristic dabs of j yellows a nd reds are, at times, allied to ! a large pillow of soft down, but quieter I tones seem to be preferred at the I moment. I One of the more elaborate cushions is a big oblong of black faille, worked | with a gigantic lover’s knot in bright I blue, silk ribbon. I But the simplest velvet cushion may have, in place of a tassel, some eccentric bauble, as a round device, not unlike a slender jam jar, covered with velvet and tipped with fringe. Another shell-shaped cushion in velvet has a smaller shell at the tip, reminiscent of a pin cushion, and this, again, is finished with fringe. Despite the craze for plain cushions, however, if you have some Chinese silk, do not hesitate to use one strip as a runner on your polished table, and the other as something special in the way of an oblong cushion, whose edges are of black velvet, with no tassels or fringes to break the “line.”