The Ultimate Curtain Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Your Own Window Treatments

Forbes, Isabella

ISBN 10: 0895776227 / ISBN 13: 9780895776228

Published by Readers Digest, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ultimate Curtain Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Your Own Window Treatments
• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895776227
• ISBN 13: 9780895776228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A complete handbook designed to help readers create their own window treatments presents a series of projects, representing a broad spectrum of styles, for different rooms in the home, along with tips on techniques, materials, fitting, and finishing touches. 25,000 first printing.

Reviews

Given the subtitle, the reader would expect to find a well-organized "how to" manual. Instead, Forbes, a London interior designer, has produced a lavishly illustrated book with imaginative variations of standard draperies. Experienced sewers will be inspired, but the instructions are given in such a disorganized fashion that amateurs will probably be a bit befuddled. Compared with Lady Caroline Wrey's The Complete Book of Curtains and Drapes (LJ 2/15/92) and Carol Parks's Complete Book of Window Treatments & Curtains (Sterling, 1993)-which provide, respectively, elegant window treatments and clear practical directions-this book falls short of its goal.
Gayle A. Williamson, formerly with Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles
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