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 lO/t COTTAGE, FAUM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE plates, to be placed against walls, always be simple and architectural, seeming to belong to the construction of the room. 2130. Window Curtains. Fig. 1976 shows a window curtain with a gilt cornice and liandsome drapery, the hangings being either of damask or chintz, with bullion fi-jnge 11»7G (so called because it is made in the style of epaulets, the pendent part of which is called bullion, though for what reason we have not been able to discover,) with silk drops. The curtains are tied up with tassels and bands, instead of being fastened back with brass pins ; a hook being placed on the architrave, on which the band is slipped. In general the material and colour of window curtains should be the same as that of the other drapery in the room ; for example, as the covers of sofas in drawing-rooms and as bed curtains in bed-rooms. In the cases of dining-rooms and libraries, where there is no other drapery than that belonging to the window curtains, the colour, and the ma- terial of these should be such as to harmonise with the colouring, and style of finishing and furniture, of the room. For example, if the furniture be chiefly mahogany, the material of the curtains should be moreen or cloth ; and the colour should be of the same tone, and strong or dark ; say some shade of red, brown, or scarlet. If, on the other hand, the furniture be chiefly of oak, or of difl'erent-coloured foreign woods, the or other light-coloured cloth, or moreen, or some description of chintzes or cottons, will be more suitable ; in both cases the colours in the carpets should be in part those of drab window curtains. When the chairs of a room are covered with cloth, the pi-inciple of