Figure [34] is another treatment of a pair of curtains for a similar space.
The right-hand curtain is manipulated much the same as the left-hand curtain in Figure [33], which has been already explained. The left-hand curtain is pleated into the space allowed for it at the top, either tacked over the pole as illustrated, or attached to rings. It is allowed to hang straight from the pole and either caught up with a rosette at the side or is gathered back and confined by a loop.
To make the rosette, allow the curtain to hang perfectly straight either just to the floor or even a half yard longer (if you desire the sweep of the bottom edge nice and full), and grasp the edge, without stretching it, at the point where you wish to make the rosette.
Then with the disengaged hand, Figure [34A], catch the edge again lower down and raise it until the longest point of the curtain clears the floor or is as much higher as you want it to be when finished, gather across dotted line, Figure [34A], and form the surplus into a rosette, as explained for Figure [33].
Pick out the fullness of the curtain into pleats, form a pipe depending from the centre of the tied part beneath the rosette and pleat the balance into a double tail.
To gather the curtain back with a loop, as Figure [34B], allow it to just nicely clear the floor, and then with both hands gather it into large folds commencing at the outside edge considerably below the position of the loop, and following the sweep indicated by dotted line across curtain in Figure [34B].
Figure [34C] is an illustration of how this can be accomplished neatly without the necessity of pulling the curtain through the loop after it has been caught up; Figure [34D] is a cross section of a curtain while being gathered, illustrating the position of the fingers as they form each successive pleat, the thumbs remaining stationary and the fingers drawing the goods toward them to form each pleat.
Figure [34E] is a back view of the end of the curtain that is pleated over the pole, Figure [34], and shows also the corner of the curtain which forms the middle festoon. For Figure [35], another treatment of a pair of curtains, gather the curtains, one for each side, as explained for festoon 1, Figures [33F] and [33G], and fasten the tied parts together to form the double tail in the centre, twist each curtain where it passes through the ring to bring the short edges to form the outside of the double tail, and form the festoons, rosettes and outside tails, as explained for Figure [33].
Figure [36] is an illustration of a scarf drapery for a six-foot circular top window or archway, made of six yards of fifty-inch material, with a fringe sewn on one side and both ends.
Divide the space for the number of festoons you wish to make, mark the points where the attachments will be fastened, and put them in place, mark X the centre of the space and V the middle of your length of goods on the top or unfringed edge.