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The House in Good Taste
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Elsie De Wolfe
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Of
course,
if
your
house
has
been
built
with
open
archways,
you
will
need
heavy
curtains
for
them,
but
there
are
curtains
and
curtains.
If
you
need
portieres
at
all,
you
need
them
to
cut
off
one
room
from
another,
and
so
they
should
hang
in
straight
folds.
They
should
be
just
what
they
pretend
to
be--honest
curtains
with
a
duty
to
fulfil.
For
the
simple
house
they
may
be
made
of
velvet
or
velveteen
in
some
neutral
tone
that
is
in
harmony
with
the
rugs
and
furnishings
of
the
rooms
that
are
to
be
divided.
They
should
be
double,
usually,
and
a
faded
gilt
gimp
may
be
used
as
an
outline
or
as
a
binding.
There
are
also
excellent
fabrics
reproducing
old
brocades
and
even
old
tapestries,
but
it
is
well
to
be
careful
about
using
these
fabrics.
There
are
machine-made
"tapestries"
of
foliage
designs
in
soft
greens
and
tans
and
browns
on
a
dark
blue
ground
that
are
very
pleasing.
Many
of
these
stuffs
copy
in
color
and
design
the
verdure
tapestries,
and
some
of
them
have
fine
blues
and
greens
suggestive
of
Gobelin.
These
stuffs
are
very
wide
and
comparatively
inexpensive.
I
thoroughly
advise
a
stuff
of
this
kind,
but
I
heartily
condemn
the
imitations
of
the
old
tapestries
that
are
covered
with
large
figures
and
intricate
designs.
These
old
tapestries
are
as
distinguished
for
their
colors,
their
textures,
and
their
very
crudities
as
for
their
supreme
beauty
of
coloring.
It
would
be
foolish
to
imitate
them.
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