Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 14

14 FURNISHING THE HOME Conducted for The Star BY ELIZABETH STETSON AND GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS BY ELIZABETH STETSON. In the decoration of a room, as we have sald before, the large areas must be considered’ first. After the walls, the floor is the most important space we have. opportunity for color. Whether it is to be light or dark is the principal thing, and that is a matter deter: mined by the style of the house and the preference of the owner. Dut the rugs do more toward making or marring the room than anything else except the walls. We will take up the subject of what kind of rug to use in each room later. Before we do that, it is necessary to know some- thing about the history of rugmaking in order to know how to handle them in decorating interiors. i From the earliest times we find rec- ords showing that rugs were used as floor and seat coverings in the temples of Egypt during religlous ceremonies and iater on in the palaces of the kings. The same thing was true in the Euphrates Valley. These “pugs” were probably made of heavy linen interwomen with colored wools in the manner of a tapestry. All the rugs of antiquity were made on the tapestry or embroidery type. ©Our Modern Carpet. Our modern carpet with a pile sur- face does not appear definitely until the fifteenth century in Persia and Asia Minor. In Persia especially, in the sixteenth century these rugs at- tained a beauty of design and color- ing, and excellence of workmanship which has ‘never been surpassed in all the succeeding centuries. The Is- pahans were the finest of them all. They are no longer made; the Sarouks are their closest modern counterparts in_weuve and design. The Persians, though Mahomme- dans, allowed representations of na- ture and even man in this art so these designs contain _very beautiful and free handling of flowers, birds and animals interwoven so as to cover the entire surface of the rug. The ‘Turks were much stricter in their Mahom- medan practices and would not allow life to be represented in their carpets. Their designs are geometrical in char- acter or have a very stiff conven- tionalized nature pattern,.but posses beautiful colors. Orlental rugs are made on a wooden frame which stands upright before the worker; the warp threads are of heavy wool or cotton and spaced to give the neces- sary fineness to the weave. There are two famous knots used in the weaving of Orlental rugs, the Ghiordes and the finer Sehna, but we will not describe the difference here. Both are alike in that the pieces of wool are tied to the warp threads in such a manner that the two ends of the plece project out in front. As each row of knots is tied across the frame, horonzontally, the worker com- presses it by pushing a comb-like in- | strument down, thus making a com- ! pact surface for the rug. After the weaving is through, the pile is clipped evenly, the rug is washed and then it i¢ ready for use. Needless to say, the worker follows the design by eve and not mechanically, hence the irregularities which please us so much in contrast to the hard designs of the machine-made products. Art of Weaving. The Moors brought the art of rug weaving into Spain, where it finally developed into a distinct European type, full of bright colors and woven in stiff Renaiscence patterns still very attractive to our eyes. In '1667 France organized a state manufactory for the producing of Oriental rugs. These rugs became wvery famous as “Tapis de la Savon- nerie.” There were also fine types of carpets made at Beauvais and Aubusson, but on the tapestry weav- ing order, not piled rugs. The French rugs show their Oriental origin less than gny others as their designs and colorings follow more the decorative designs of the Louis XV andXVI periods than the orig- ina] Persian pieces. The Oriental art of rug weaving was brought to England quite early also, but what England is most noted for is the fine quality of machine-made rugs which she now produces. However, the machine-made carpet 18 good only when it is of a solid color with or without a border of a contrast- ing color, or when it possesses varia- tlons of the solld color, irregularly woven lines and the like. Plain‘rugs are very popular now and there are begutiful handmade ones of modern Buropean _ production, especially Scotch and English ones, and also fine modern plain Orientals. Chinese Rugs Lovely. “Indian rugs, though along the same A wooden floor glves iittle} Motives Iy to Van and Justice Butler dissenting. . The case came before the Supreme Court on appeal from the United States District Court for the northern district of Ohlo. t which had granted an injunction the respondent against the enforce- ment the village of Euclid. The bill alleged. that the ordinance wviolated the Ohlo constitution and the Constitution of the United States, in 498 their erty, lines, have never been able to equal the Persian and Turkish rugs. Chinese rugs are very lovely ih their background colors. The kind of wool used also takes a beautiful sheen when washed. They are very easily harmonized with the existing decora- tions of a room, but the modern de- signs are not good and the wool will not last half as long as that of an Oriental. ‘We have our own American hooked rugs, and some of these are very good, but they give a distinctly in- formal 4nd quaint appearance, 80 can be used in certain types of houses only. Usually they do not possess a surface of pile, but are braided or crocheted from pleces of previously manufactured material. CHILDREN CALLED MORE INDIVIDUAL THAN ADULTS Special Dispatch to The Star. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif, December 10.—Young children are more truly individuals than older per- sons, largely because the schools tend to level out idiosyncrasies rather than to develop differences. This is the finding ot Dr. Truman L. Kelley, pro- fessor of education and psychology at Stanford University; as a result of a_statistical study of the influence of training upon native mental differ- ences in school children. , More than 200 children that are gifted mentally were compared with 1,700 normal children by Dr. Kelley. The gifted 8.yeéar-old children were more individual mentally than nor- mgl 8.year-olds. But he found that between 8 and 11 years the gifted children have their individual traits froned out by the public school influ- ence, so that at 11 years they have fewer mental idlocyncrasies than nor- mal 1l'year-olds. These gifted 11- 3141 34th St Detached Corner Home “One of the best home values ever offered in * Cleveland _Park” Features: Nine bright outside rooms. 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Potomac 736 COURT’S ZONING (Continued from Thirteenth Page.) trades, industries and structures like- “Here, however, the exclusion is in general terms of all industrial esta- lishments, and It may thereby happen that ne indust which are neither offensive nor gerous will share the same fat The decision of the court was de livered by Justice Sutherland, Justice ~ REAL ESTATE. / tions under the guise of the police power were unreasonable and’ con- fiscatory. The original bill charged that limi- tations put upon the property in ques- tlon so restricted and controlled the uses of the land as to confiscate and destroy a great part of its value. It was alleged that the tract lay in the path of progressive Industrial devel- opment and that for such uses it has a market value of about $10,000 per acre; that if the use be limited to residential purposes the market value is not In_excess of $2,500 per acre; that the first 200 feet @f the parcel, If unrestricted, has a value of $150 | per front foot, but if limited to resi- | - | dential use and ordinary mercantile Lusiness be excluded therefrom, fits value is not in excess of $50 per front foot. A NEW HOME 1736 B St. S.E. rooms and b electricity. hardwood floors throughout: lern in every respect. LACY & BELT Quners and Builders G St. 8.\, Phone Frank. 8068 DECISION AFFECTS gk A If you expect to get a bargain —and 'if you want a home that will meet your needs— Inspect 3110 Rodmian Street N.W. 9 Sold—Only 1 Left Every modern convenience is incorporated in these ex- ceptional homes. 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