NOVELTIES IN CUSHIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8231, 7 September 1906, Page 3

NOVELTIES IN CUSHIONS.

Ibis year manufacturers have -managed to combine the artistic and utilitarian in a manner which speaks well for the progress of domestic art, for nearly all the sofa 'uuahions now may be washed without injury to the fabric. At one time what wa9 called a summer-house cushion was a comfortless production of coarse matting or fancy straw, hard to the head and not particularly decorative. Tbe dainty and picturesque spotted >crash cushion has taken its place. An example of this sort is of spotted linen, the tiny spots raised to give an embroidered effect. Tlie .linen is of natural tint, and decor--ated with embroidery of green, red, • old rose, blue, and yellow braid. A two-inch wide band of ribbon, -the same colour as <the linen, deoorated with tiny pink buds and .green leaves, trims the edge of the cushion, and beyond this projeots a half-inch wide hem of the linen. In the higher-grade cushions the •lingerie models, as they are called, made of pure white opon-worked ■ linen and of white lawn trimmed with lace insertion, and finished with a ruffle to matub, are having a tremendous vogue not only in sleep--ing-rooms, but in drawing-rooms 'also.