café curtain

"Maybe you could hang some café curtains in there.

Scalloped headings are normally used on short café curtains and are hung below a narrow rod from rings.

Make a template of the scallop (see Café Curtains, page 46) or use an appropriately sized plate, to mark them off accurately.

"1 don't know, and I wouldn't tell you if I did," I answered, frowning at a photograph of café curtains made from tea towels.

Café curtains, which traditionally only cover the lower half of the window, offer a very simple solution to privacy and are ideal in kitchens which face onto a busy road.

It is most suitable for lightweight curtains, nets and café curtains, and requires a fullness of twice the length of the curtain fixture, but this is adjustable.

Before she could ask if he wanted café curtains or doilies as well, an elderly clerk came to the counter and inquired, in perfect English, if he could be of help.

Narrow rods are intended for use with café curtains and can be purchased with rings and special clasps which simply grip the top of the curtain, eliminating the use of curtain hooks.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places with-out windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the café curtains cover blank concrete.