Cutting and draping

by John W. Stephenson

Fig 104

Fig 105

Fig 106

Fig 106A

ARCHWAYS AND ALCOVES

Given a straight opening, the average decorator will have no hesitancy in suggesting numerous stock schemes of treatment, from the simple and inexpensive to the most elaborate. But if the top of the opening is curved, his difficulties are increased. In the chapters on scarf and festoon draperies, we illustrated how draperies may be applied to the face of a round top opening when the object is to decorate or relieve the severity of the opening by partially concealing the outline. We desire now to more particularly deal with a few cases which demand that the opening be not concealed, but harmoniously decorated within its prescribed limits.