2014. For a carpet to be really beautiful and in good taste, there should be, as in a picture, a judicious disposal of light and shadow, with a gradation of very bright and of very dark tints; some almost white, and others almost or quite black.
2015. Red Carpets.—The most truly chaste, rich and elegant carpets, are those where the pattern is formed by one color only, but arranged in every variety of shade. For instance, we have seen a Brussels carpet entirely red; the pattern formed by shades or tints, varying from the deepest crimson (almost a black), to the palest pink (almost a white).
2016. Green Carpets.—Also one of green only, shaded from the darkest bottle-green, in some parts of the figure, to the lightest pea-green in others.
2017. Brown Carpets.—Another, in which there was no color but brown, in all its various gradation, some of the shades being nearly black, others of a light buff. All these carpets had much the look of rich cut velvet.
2018. The Curtains, Sofas, &c., of course, were of corresponding colors, and the effect of the whole was noble and elegant.