SCREENS WHICH MATCH THE DOOR PANELS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 5

SCREENS WHICH MATCH THE DOOR PANELS

ORIGINAL NOTE IN DECORATING The latest idea in decorative schemes consists in finding “matching” adornments for two different items—the door and the screen, for instance. A room so treated takes on a fresh interest and charm, the two articles patterned alike adding just that subtle air of originality so much sought after today. One attractive notion is to hang a boldly coloured flower picture, framed in black wood, against a whitepainted door; then each panel of the screen should have a similar picture fastened to it. The prints need not necessarily be identical. So long as they are the same size and shape, they can be varied as you please. The door might be decorated with the painting of a mixed country posy

; o£ marigolds, zinnias, asters, pansies, and so on, and to the screen could be affixed a pictured bunch of each of the different blossoms. An extremely effective scheme seen in a pretty modern drawing room the other day, illustrated to perfection the owner's love for embroidery. She had ; worked glowing hollyhocks, in all their lovely colourings, on to panels ; of beige linen the same size as those !of the door, and stretched them j j tightly across. The screen. which ; stood in a corner, was also covered in ! beige linen embroidered with holly- j hocks, and the effect was very good. A variation of this idea would be to evolve futuristic flowers from circles and triangles of gay-luted liners, and applique them on hessian panels with ! contrasting wools. Fascinating “flowers" can be worked ; in crochet, for the same purpose. To ; make these, start with 3 chain, join into a ring, work 2 double crochet into the stitch next to the hook, 1 double crochet into the next stitch, 2 into the next, and so on. round and i round, until you have a circle about | one and a-lialf inches across. Now j take a contrasting colour, and work j two or three rows round, finally finishing with yet another shade. Croehetted in reds, yellows, purples, blues and oranges, these quaint flowers make extraordinarily attractive trimming motifs. They should be stitched flat to the background material with wool the same colour as their outer circle, and stems of chainstitch in thick jade green wool can be embroidered to them afterward.