Category: Curtains
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A silk merchant’s dilemma
As the silk merchant that I am, I collect a lot of inspiration images on silk from various image banks, such as Pinterest. The purpose of this is to provide influences for future purchases of new silk colors. It is not easy, you know, to choose the colors that we hope our customers will like.…
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Fabric for a king and for a cozy sofa
Velvet has a solid history and already in the 13th century the Italians began to weave the exclusive fabric. Of course it became an expensive story so only the nobility could afford it. It naturally became fashionable to create advanced creations. Velvet was used for royal crowns, for example. Above is a beautiful midnight blue…
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Take me to Paris
Under the heading “take me there” I usually write when I get the travel nerves going. This time it’s not daydreams but for real. Tomorrow a friend and I are heading to Paris to visit the Maison et Objet Paris fair . It’s not the biggest fair in the interior design industry, but definitely the…
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Something Soft and Warm in November
Now this is it, the one considered by many to be the heaviest month of the year. I heard of a man who every year simply crossed out November on his calendar and wrote July instead. Then he went to warmer latitudes to experience the July heat. That’s one way. Another is to embrace the…
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Bedroom Bliss – Luxurious Beds
In a previous post I wrote about the English company And so to bed, which produces beds beyond the ordinary. Their beds are truly “to dream about”, they are expensive as hell and the size of the beds means that they are best suited to really large rooms, the kind found in castles and manors.…
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Life is a rose
Pink has emerged as a hot color in fashion. Both for fall 2013 and also for spring 2014, internationally I might add. I don’t think it will become a big color in our country, besides, the Swedes are far too cautious and the color far too controversial. It usually doesn’t take long before we see…
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Hang Them High!
Hang Them High is the name of a spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood from 1968, and of course it means that the villains will be hanging high on the gallows. Huh…. But here we are talking about some nice curtain tips. Curtains have led a rather waning existence in recent years. The norm has been…
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Spring Silk Curtains
Aunt Silk’s first blog post is of course about silk curtains. Many people don’t like curtains – they think they collect dust or block the view. But curtains don’t have to hang in front of the window – they can actually be hung on the wall next to the window. I prefer curtains most of…
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