Product Description

With 30 brand new contemporary designs for modern window treatments and 26 updated illustrations, this revised and expanded fourth edition of "The Curtain Design Directory" offers even more ideas and solutions than ever before. Browse through the book and create your own beautiful window treatments, drawing inspiration from more than 400 hand-drawn black-and-white illustrations. This edition provides even more essential information; including a helpful window measuring sheet, detailed information about positioning fittings, how to determine the correct proportions for top treatments and estimating fabric quantities. "The Curtain Design Directory" is the must-have handbook for every interior designer and curtain maker.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54371 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

From the Author
Every year, when it might have been thought that the variety of curtain designs has reached its final limit, yet more styles and finishes manage to evolve. In the course of our work over the years, we have, as it were, test-driven a huge and ever-growing range of designs.
This third edition of 'The Curtain Design Directory' aims to bring up to date fresh and inventive ways of dressing windows, allowing you to benefit from the hard-earned knowledge we've gained in our workroom. Every window really is different, and it is an awareness of that difference which leads to such a multiplicity of possibilities.
We hope you will find inspiration here, whether you wish to reproduce our designs, or use them as a springboard for a greater flight of fancy, or simply draw key elements from them. A window to dress is, after all, an exciting challenge!
Catherine & Rebecca, Redbourne, January 1999

From the Inside Flap
The first edition of 'The Curtain Design Directory' gave interior designers, curtain makers and clients the chance to browse through pages of detailed sketches, helping them to judge and compare the effect of particular designs. The brief and simple text simplified the explanation of ideas and techniques - a genuine case of a picture being worth a thousand words.
This new and completely revised edition of 'The Curtain Design Directory' offers even more inspiration. It contains 300 design ideas. Of the 246 pages of black and white line drawings drawn to scale, 53 are completely new. The illustrations form the core of 'The Curtain Design Directory' showing dressed windows and accessories . At a glance 'The Directory' offers a huge range of ideas which can be reproduced exactly, or adapted to individual requirements.

About the Author
Catherine Merrick and Rebecca Day run the well-known Merrick & Day curtain workroom, making curtains for interior designers. They run regular courses on curtain making and have distilled their years of knowledge into several authoritative books on curtain making, including the curtain maker's essential companion 'Encyclopaedia of Curtains', the stimulating 'Curtain Inspiration' and the newly released 'Blinds, Curtains & Cushions'.

Customer Reviews

Not a bad source book, but designs and sketches were basic
Initially I was impressed with this book. Quite a few ideas for different window dressing situations were shown, but the whole thing seems rather amateur. The designs themselves are text book issue with hardly any new ideas - if any the section on difficult window shapes and how to overcome them was useful. I think that the sketches are too "sketchy" and that sharper lines should be used. I also think that this book should, alongside some of the sketches show a photograph of the design made up and in situ. In summary: A great book for D.I.Y. curtain makers if only it would show them how to "make up". A poor book for the curtain maker/designer looking for some inspiration.

easy viewing, instant ideas
This book enables you to visualise your window, chose a style, with the pictures being in black on white,you are not distracted on thoughts of colour and fabric, the drawings are clear and the styles varied, once you have chosen a style you can then think about your choice of fabric.

A design sourcing, not a "how to make" book
Very good black and white illustrations of curtains, headings, cushions etc to give you hundreds of ideas about which curtains might suit your windows. This book does not contain instructions on how to make the curtains but it does tell you what kind of poles, for example, will work with what kind of curtains or headings. Invaluable for anyone who is unsure about what curtains will suit their room.