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Upholstery Materials:
Co-relating upholstery textiles. In decoration, upholstery Textiles must first be considered from the angle of their cost, suitability, and durability ? but their relationship to the ensemble of the room depends mainly on their pattern and color. Walls appear as backgrounds to chairs and sofas placed against them, and Floor coverings must be considered in their effect upon free-standing pieces. Contrast of upholstery materials with their backgrounds is usually advisable, and it may be obtained in any one or more of the usual methods, such as texture, tone, color intensity, hue, or the use or omission of pattern. As upholstery coverings are secondary color areas to walls and floors, the color brilliancy of the former may be increased. Care must be taken to avoid an excessive use of patterned upholstery in a room, and particularly if wallpaper or a patterned Floor covering is used. An excess of plain surfaces is less objectionable than an excess of patterned ones; the former is restful and may be given interest by variations in texture and color. Stripes and plaids produce a medium degree of animation and are less disturbing than elaborate patterns and harmonize well with both these and plain colors. Plain colored upholstery usually looks best and may be given greater interest if contrasting colored welting cords or chenille fringes are used with it.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.
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 surfaces. 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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