Air space

The tendency to keep the windows totally open has not taken root. Architects note that even viewers often ask to drape windows with a transparent fabric. It is she who creates a special atmosphere in the interior and sometimes even ... improves the look

Passing the gallery

Magazine: Decor N10 (198) 2014

The tendency to keep the windows totally open has not taken root. Architects note that even viewers often ask to drape windows with a transparent fabric. It is she who creates a special atmosphere in the interior and sometimes even ... improves the look

Transparent fabrics — tulle, organza, veil — seem to add light and air to the interior. Their feature to change the "color of the air" in the room has long been noticed by decorators. In addition to the well-known recipe about golden or orange tulle in the room, oriented to the north, there are others. Lilac, blue, cold green it is good to “cool” the interior. Milky white or beige tulle makes natural light soft, iridescent, fills the room with radiance. (By the way, to enhance this effect, sometimes a metal thread is woven into the fabric, which glares like the sun's rays.)

Plain transparent fabrics are only part of what textile design now offers. There are more lace. And in the fashion today color embroidery on tulle (without abolishing the traditional one — white on white). Fashion trend in the spirit of the 1970s — voluminous applications, such as white polyurethane flowers on transparent white organza. The flock pattern on organza remains in demand and is through drawing. True, the flock ornaments themselves have undergone changes, and now these are not so much flowers as geometric patterns in the art deco style, grids and abstractions.

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