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 | 1001 ideas for windows: the ultimate sourcebook for curtains, blinds, fabrics & hardware
Over 1,000 inspirational illustrations and photographs offer fresh new ideas for stylish window dressings, from curtains to shutters and cornices to swags. Vital practical advice for picking the right window treatment for your home, whatever your budget, style or window. Ann essential catalogue of fabrics, hardware, and accessories.
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Romantic Window Style by Alexandra Parsons
Whether they're wisps of sheer organza, lean slatted blinds, or full formal curtains, your window treatments define your style. Through lavish photographs, the editors of Victoria Magazine show how to enhance your home's architecture, and use treatments to soften a room's lines, add colour and warmth, emphasize good proportions, and improve on bad ones.
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 | Blinds, Curtains and Cushions: Design and make stylish treatments for your home by Merrick and Day
Inspiring photographs of today's living, combined with practical advice and detailed step by step instructions.
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Wendy Baker's Curtain Recipes
Wendy Baker's new curtain design book is crammed full of delicious ideas and combined with fabrics and easy to follow sewing instructions it makes curtain making a piece of cake!
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 | Wendy Baker's Compact sketchbook of accessories
Accessories for every occasion - cushions, screens, table linen, kitchen clutter, chairs, lighting, pictures, mirrors, rugs, flowers, collectables & outdoor accessories.
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Wendy Baker's Compact sketchbook of blinds
In this sketchbook the author has tried to show every style of blind imaginable - from rollers to romans and from london to austrian blinds - all squeezed into this compact sketchbook.
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 | The Window Treatment Workbook by Kristen Fitch
Over 600 artful watercolour renderings of window treatments combined with two CDs containing all the images make this the most useful, practical book available. This book is an invaluable resource that will inspire you. A wide range of designs from traditional flowing swags and long jabots to modern styls with simple lines and colours make hundreds of combinations possible.
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The Curtain Design Source Book by C Clifton-Mogg
1991. 192pp, with 400 photographs. No matter how stylish the curtains, decorative details can add that indefinable finishing touch and the author shows how well chosen accessories such as pelmets and cornices, swag and tails and tassels and tiebacks can turn the most ordinary curtain into something special. This book illustrates many contemporary modern curtain treatments.
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 | Simple soft furnishings : 50 stylish home sewing projects to transform your home by Katrin Cargill
Over 50 original soft furnishing designs for the home, including cushions, curtains and blinds, seating, bed linens and table linens. All the techniques used in the projects have been simplified with the beginner sewer in mind, and presented step-by-step with all the key stages illustrated. Alternative fabrics, fastenings, trimmings and colourways are given where appropriate to help you achieve the look you really want.
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Windows by Lynne Robinson & Richard Lowther
This book offers a distinctive, modern approach to curtains, blinds, shutters and screens for the contemporary home. From organdie panels to paper blinds, the book presents a wonderful variety of innovative and practical designs.
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 | Soft furnishings: over 50 easy-to-make designs for beds, chairs, tables and windows by Chris Jefferys
Transform your home with this stylish range of simple projects, from gorgeous cushions and crisp table linen to pretty bedcovers and stunning curtains. Over 50 specially designed step by step projects, Superb photographs of the finished projects show all the richness of their colours and textures. Easy to follow instructions and colour illustrations throughout.
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Homes & Gardens The complete curtain book: a comprehensive guide to styles and projects, techniques and fabrics by Isabelle Forbes
Paperback. Packed with practical ideas, this comprehensive guide explains in detail how to create 35 projects, with easy to follow artworks and photographs of the finished effect, including unlined curtains and stunningly simple no sew curtains. Other sections discuss appropriate designs for window shapes and inspirational ideas that will transform each room in the house.
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 | The Curtain Sketchbook by Wendy Baker
This title has many well loved traditional designs, but also includes a large number of simple minimalist curtains. The aim of the book is to show in clear simple line sketches, hundreds of ideas for curtain and window treatments.
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The Window and Bed Sketchbook by Wendy Baker
2001. The illustrations are all in black and white simple line drawings, so that the details of the designs are clear. Throughout the book you will find on the left hand page basic designs with some variations on the right hand page. When choosing curtains for example, firstly turn to the basic window shapes identifying your window as close as possible. Then choose your pole and headings from the curtain headings and the modern or traditional poles section. Obviously if choosing sofas or beds turn to that section - it works the same way!
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 | Cushions, pillows and throws by Lucinda Ganderton and Lucy Berridge
Available Autumn 2003. The authors offer clever ideas and inspiration for hundreds of cushions, pillows and throws. Includes thorough explanations of basic techniques and fifteen projects accompanied by complete step by step illustrations and directions.
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The new curtain book by Stephanie Hoppen
2003. 192pp, full colour throughout. Featuring master classes on today's fashionable window treatments, given by more than thirty of the world's most innovative designers, the designs described and illustrated in the book showcase the whole panoply of contemporary styles and materials,from classical, traditional designs to modern, simple ones. The materials include silk, velvet, taffeta and cashmere, through rural prints, formal stripes, canvas and ticking, to 21st century perspex panels, crystal beads and metallic voile.
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 | Dream windows: Historical perspectives - classic designs - contemporary creations by Charles Randall & Sharon Templeton
2003. 192pp. This book features approximately 400 illustrations, photographs and text. Styles range from the fifteenth century through to the twenty first. Each treatment is accompanied by extensive calculations. Includes an index, glossaries and a bibliography.
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Vintage fabric style : inspirational ideas for using antique and retro fabrics in your home
2003. 128pp, 200 colour photographs. Provides step by step projects including cushions, duvet covers, table runners, simple curtains and more. Bring vintage style to your modern home. Plenty of tips for making the most of your decorating budget.
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| | Le Porte Feuilles Pratique by D Guilmard
27pp, plus 49 black and white designs. Beautifully illustrated period curtain and bed designs circa 1870. Each design has pattern shapes clearly drawn to scale on a grid.
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The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions by Randall - 5th Edition
2002. Latest edition (5th Edition). 226 pp, numerous illus in colour. This book contains historical window treatments, all current styles extraordinary new ideas and more, creative solutions for problem windows, cost saving styles to designer treatments and a glossary of window decorating terms and textile information, yardage charts, fullness charts etc. Updated version from the 4th edition.
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 | Simple Curtains by Katrin Cargill
11opp. Hardback. Create simple and stylish window treatments for every room in the house with this practical spiral-bound workbook, which contains over 80 imaginative ideas for curtains and valances of all shapes and sizes. Internationally renowned stylist Katrin Cargill has devised more than 20 inspirational yet achievable projects, each one beautifully illustrated with complete step by step instructions on fold out pages. A comprehenisve techniques section demonstrates and explains all the necessary sewing skills for creating your own beautiful curtains.
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Simple Cushions by Katrin Cargill
110pp. Hardback Cushions are a great way to bring comfort and style to every room in the house. This practical spiral bound workbook contains more than 100 ideas for cushions of all shapes and sizes and in a wide variety of fabrics. The author has devised 20 easy to follow projects, each one illustrated with step by step drawings on fold out pages. A comprehensive technqiues section will guide you through all the sewing skills needed for creative cushion making.
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 | Home Fashions
2000. Two volume boxed set. Book one contains 207pp, 346 colour pictures historic and modern. Featured in this book are fancy curtains, Roman shades, roller blinds and jalousies, bedrooms, teens and child/baby rooms, valances, sectioned valances and kitchen and bathrooms. Book two contains 96pp, 180 colour pictures historic and modern. This book contains hotel textiles, hotel furniture, classical and guipure curtains, pillows and cushions, tiebacks and accessories. The box set also includes a guide book for special cutting patterns, 18 different practical tailoring patterns fof valance skirts, shirred twill tapes, special strip patterns, strips of folded curtain skirts etc.,
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Curtain Bible: An inspirational and practical look at contemporary curtains & blinds by Katrin Cargill
2001. 192pp, 200 colour photographs, 220 colour artworks. A portfolio of contemporary and classic looks, and how to achieve them. It contains over 30 original projects for creating curtains and blinds with step by step illustrated instructions. It is also a reference guide to all practicalities, from fixtures and fittings to sewing techniques.
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| | Soft Furnishing Workshop series - Cushions & Pillows : Professional skills made easy
2001. 78pp, 75 colour illus, 100 colour photographs. This title provides guidance on selecting the right style and fabric for your room scheme. It contains ideas, projects and optional finishes, as well as sewing tips for both hand and machine sewing. Step by step instructions are accompanied by colour art works.
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Curtain Inspiration: A sourcebook of pictures and ideas by Merrick & Day
2001. 192pp, 320 colour illus. This lavishly illustrated photographic book provides inspiration for a wide range of curtains and window treatments. From drawing rooms and dining rooms to bedrooms and bathrooms, from pelmets and valances to poles and shutters, this is a comprehensive look at a variety of styles and approaches that can be used in your home.
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 | The Soft Furnishing Workbook by Katrin Cargill
1998. 184pp. A practical spiral bound workbook containing over 200 up-to-date soft furnishing ideas for the home, ranging from simple yet stylish curtains and cosy cushions to elegant bedspreads and imaginative lampshades. Includes 32 inspirational projects, each one beautifully illustrated and complete with step by step instructions on fold out pages. A comprehensive trechniques section clearly demonstrates all the necessary basic sewing skills.
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A Window Dressing Guide Book
68pp, with 300 illus. This book contains design illustrations to completely dress windows with curtain styles, pelmet and pelmet shapes, swags and tails, valances, curtains on poles, curtain headers for poles, pole syles, blinds, blind pull styles, bay window styles, tie backs and hold backs, trimmings, headboards, beds, cushions and tables. Also included is a section on what to do with problem windows.
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 | Window Style by M Fox-Linton
160pp plus photographs and 120 colour diagrams. Focussing on blinds, screens and shutters as much as curtains, accessories are key factors as well as fabric and the plain texture of fabric which is possibly now more important than pattern. (paperback)
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The Soft Furnishing Source Book by L Geddes-Brown
192pp, with 350 colour photographs and 150 colour illus. This book opens with fabric styles - a host of images to show how different types of fabric can dictate a particular look and feel in a room. The components look are the backbone of soft furnishings and the form they take in curtains and blinds, slipcovers for all types of furniture and bed hanging and linen.
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 | Curtain Style by Lady Caroline Wrey
1997. In this book the author uses full colour step by step photography to show you exactly how to make elegant curtains, pelmets and blinds. From simple tab headed curtains to stately swags and tails, a French pleated pelmet to a roman blind, Curtain Style has ideas to suit all tastes and styles of rooms.
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The Soft Furnishing Master System by Merrick and Day
70 loose leaf pages, ringbinder. Master forms that can be photocopied and used or adapted. Contains client agreement forms, measuring sheets for various window shapes, price list structure, froms for fitting and hanging instructions. The invaluable make up sheets cover all types of window treatments and beds plus accessories., Hugely practical, it is packed with tips that really save time.
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 | The Encyclopedia of Curtains by Merrick and Day
1996. 240pp, colour illustrations and diagrams, colour photographs. Every aspect of curtain making is covered in this reference book, from first designs through to fitting and hanging., With easy to follow diagrams, step by step instuctionsand professional tips on choosing fabrics and colour.
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The Curtain Design Directory by Merrick & Day
1999. 320pp. A new updated manual of b&w illus., with over 300 design ideas for curtain ands soft furnishings. Available with an easy to use quick style guide to identify the appropriate window treatment for any situation. The twelve sections include a design details, poles, valances, bay windows, bed and accessories etc. The ultimate guide to the creative world of choosing and designing window treatments. Hardback £35.00 or ringbinder at £42.00.
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 | The Swag and Tail Design and Pattern Book by Merrick & Day
1999. 104pp, 73 b&w illus. Everything you need to make beautiful swag and tails in one book. Over 70 swag designs to choose from, supported by make up notes and full sized swag and tail patterns. Complete with free tracing paper top copy patterns from the master pattern. Hardback book and pattern sheets in slipcase.
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Swag and Tail Supplementary Swag Patterns by Merrick & Day
1994. Designed to complement The Swag and Tail Design and Pattern Book. This contains a further 8 swag patterns graded from 80cm/31 to 170cm/67" in width. In plastic wallet.
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 | The Fabric Quantity Handbook by Merrick & Day
64pp, 43 b&w illus. An essential tool for anyone involved in curtain making and design. Accurate and easy to use for fabric, trim quantities, includes quantity table for curtains, valances, pelmets, swags, blinds, bed valances, covers etc. All measurements are in metric.
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Modern Furniture Upholstery: A practical handbook for the upholsterer by J W Stephenson
1989. 243pp, 1000 illus. Second edition revised and enlarged. Re-published by Potterton bOoks. This is one of the "bibles" of upholsterers trade showing all aspects of the craft from buttoning, cushioning, stuffing, padding, lining, gimping etc., showing both traditional and contemporary upholstery.
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 | L' Art de la Passementerie by Donzel & Marchal
1993. 200pp. fully illustrated in colour. This sumptuous book covers the history of trimmings and their use in costume and soft furnishings. French text.
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Heather Luke's Complete Curtain Making Course by H Luke
160pp with over 250 colour photographs, This book provides an essential guide to designing and making the complete range of window dressings with methods for basic blinds, curtains, pelmets and tiebacks. Paperback.
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| | Le siege et sa garniture: The chair and it's upholstery by C Ossut
1994. 124pp, French text with over 500 colour photographs. A lavishly illustrated volume which shows the variety of chair styles, period upholstery and the development of upholstery materials. Essential for the period upholsterer.
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Recipes & Ideas : Windows by Lynne Robinson & Richard Lowther
2000. 104pp, 120 colour photographs & illus. This text presents practical yet innovative ideas on window treatments for the contemporary home. The 20 projects include creating blinds and screens, hanging lightweight fabrics and decorating pains, practical instructions are included and a range of materials and alternatives are suggested.
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