Used For Edging Lightweight: Chintzes and lightweight drapery fabrics are often edged with a nar¬row single or double strip of cloth that may or may not be accordion-plaited. Piping or welting, used both for draperies and for upholstery trimming, consists of strips of materials wound around a small cord. Narrow grosgrain ribbon is also used for edging lightweight fabrics, and ruffles of various sizes may be used as a finish for organdies and swiss. Narrow bands of woven strips or tapes known as guimpes and galloons are also used for trimming of the heavier materials, such as velvets and damasks; these are made in gold and colored patterns in tinsel, silk, wools, cottons, and cellophane, and are used for both draperies and up¬holstery work.
Chintzes and lightweight drapery fabrics are often edged with a narrow single or double strip of cloth that may or may not be accordion-plaited. Piping or welting, used both for draperies and for upholstery trimming, consists of strips of materials wound around a small cord. Narrow grosgrain ribbon is also used for edging lightweight fabrics, and ruffles of various sizes may be used as a finish for organdies and swiss. Narrow bands of woven strips or tapes known as guimpes and galloons are also used for trimming of the heavier materials, such as velvets and damasks; these are made in gold and colored patterns in tinsel, silk, wools, cottons, and cellophane, and are used for both draperies and upholstery work.See Also Edging In Contrasting:Bedspreads can be made in two basic styles - throw-over or fitted. Either style can be Floor length and edged with pleats, fringe or braiding. Alternatively, it can be made to come halfway down the sides of the bed over a contrasting dust ruffle. You can use almost any type of fabric, as long as it is crease-resistant and has enough body to hang well.
Throw-over bedspreads are the easiest type to make, consisting simply of a plain rectangle of fabric that covers the bed from head to foot and hangs down the sides to the desired length. You can make the corners square or curved, and you can leave the hem plain or trim it with edging in contrasting fabric.
some cases, edging is purely ornamental, but in others it s needed to keep surface materials such as gravel and bark n place, and to keep soil from overflowing from the beds.
NOT ALL surfaces need to be edged but it often adds the finishing touch. Use bricks or tiles or, for a more informal, rustic effect, logs. Plants themselves can also be used as edging. Low clipped hedges of box go particularly well with brick or stone surfaces. Lavender is a more decorative choice and it can also be clipped into neat shapes.
Use edging around flowerbeds to stop the soil overflowing on to surrounding areas, especially gravel or paths laid with chipped bark. Edging also helps prevent the edges of hard surfaces breaking away or sinking.
Bricks set in a number of ways are commonly used for edging, as is stone, but you can also use logs in a woodland setting. Tiles also serve the purpose well.
On The Other Hand See Simple Edging:READY-MADE panels are simply nailed between the posts. Prop each panel on bricks or offcuts of wood so that it is level before driving the nails home. You can prevent the panel edging from splitting by drilling pilot holes for the nails first.
You can also buy U-shaped brackets for nailing to the posts. These allow the panels to be dropped into place and then secured with nails driven through the brackets. Where cement posts are used, the panels simply slot in from the top.
Most ready-made panels are held together by short, thin nails or even staples, so if one needs shortening it is a relatively easy job to prise off the edging, cut the panel to length with a hand or power saw and nail the edging back on.
Wallpaper patterns may conflict with other Wall decorations such as pictures, Wall sconces, and hanging objects. If one desires to use the latter with wallpaper, it is necessary to use a wallpaper of delicate colors and rather small-scale pattern; or, if this is not possible, to use only pictures that are large enough not to be lost in the pattern of the paper. Rooms in which wallpapers are used usually require very few other patterned sur¬faces. In order to attain optical relief and contrast if a wallpaper has a prominent pattern, drapery materials should preferably be in plain colors or inconspicuous patterns and the draperies themselves designed with simple edging, fringe, or ruffling of a different hue. The same idea may be carried out in the upholstery materials, although it is less important to maintain simplicity of surface in the upholstery than in the window draperies.
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