Vanessa's Favourite Fabrics

Vanessa's Favourite Fabrics

Vanessa has selected two fabrics, both named Origami, from her ever-popular Artisan Collection.  Indigo and Charcoal is one, and Indigo and Kale is the other.

Vanessa created the designs by hand-forming, compressing, and folding the fabrics before putting them in a custom indigo vat. The fundamental joy of Shibori is that you can never fully control the process, therefore the outcomes are always unique and the designs are only seen when the fabric is unwrapped.

One of Vanessa's two favourite colours is Indigo blue, which is dark but not overly so. Since the fabric is multidirectional, you can railroad—that is, flip it on its side—to make a blind with a drop of less than 138 cm and reduce the total amount of fabric required. For example, you would require 4.5 meters of fabric for a blind that measures 133 cm in length/drop, and 1.6 meters in width, if you were to work selvage to selvage (needing two widths of fabric), as compared to about 1.7 meters if you were to railroad it. Naturally, we would always suggest getting in touch with a blind maker before making a purchase so they can determine how much fabric you actually need.

There are Plain Linen Unions in every colour in both fabrics, as well as printed and patterned fabrics. Therefore, to add a point of difference, you can add contrast pelmets and/or borders to the blind using any of these various fabrics. For instance, if you were to use the Plain Linen Union in Kale as the leading edge of your curtains and the border of your blind, the two pieces would come together to create a unified effect if they were resting next to each other on the same window.