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Lamp Veils

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The lamp shade has given way to the lamp veil as an ornament. The latter is certainly very graceful, and is easily adapted to any sort of a lamp or light. It is very rich in color and design, and is made of silk, about the size of a large handkerchief. The veils have a round hole in the center for the lamp chimney or the cord of an electric light, and drape beautifully over the round globes of the white shades of the electric light. While lamp veils as such are on sale at the stores, there is no reason why they should not be manufactured at home of materials to match the decorations and furnishings of the room for which they are intended. Their very simplicity makes their manufacture most easy. The square ones are the prettiest in effect when draped, as the globe or flat shades are all round, and the corners hang naturally in pretty cascades. If a transparent silk of a pretty all-over pattern is used, the edges are usually left perfectly plain. Especially is this true when the beautiful gauzes and the grenadines are used, as the designs are in all shades of the rainbow, and are sufficient ornament without any further trimmings. The plain shades, however, are edged with laces or fringe of a. very thin and light character. Some of these veils are trimmed with the shirred ribbons and others with the lace ruffles, but all are arranged to heighten the effect through this transparent veil.