This section is from the book "Our Homes And Their Adornments", by Almon C. Varney. Also available from Amazon: Our Homes and Their Adornments.
Still another portiere. The idea came from nature's enchanting harmony in an ordinary pigeon's colors, - one of the dove-tinted, blue-green sort. The material to harmonize with a light and "smiling" drawing-room was of heavy, all-wool material, known as diagonal-cloth in a soft dove color. It was lined with pale pink silesia. A border of "crazy quilt" (see discription of crazy or Japanese quilt under chapter on screens) done in blue, green, and dove colors, and faint gleams of rose, was laid on at top and bottom.
 
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