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Nan’s Curtains

The curtains are tiny, only 11cms wide.

18 sets of doll’s house curtains that crucially will not reside in a doll’s house.

And thinking about scale, it reminds me that we are big, even outsized in comparison and that these curtains are a scaled down version of the original. The unwanted curtains that used to hang in someone’s house.

So an adjusted perspective can alter a psychological space or maybe a collective memory. Scale can resonate with childhood.

I didn’t have a dolls house when I was a girl (I never wanted one).

The familiararity of the world in minature is at once both soothing and disconcerting. Small is managed and controlled.

Of interest: the only element that cannot be pared down is the print.

Nan’s Curtains

Everyone has curtains but why give them away… we get bored and fancy a change. Good thing that whoever previously hung these curtains wanted to get rid. I found them in a second hand store.

My plan is to make as many tiny versions of the original that the material can stretch to. So far I will be making 36 minature hand sewn curtains for 18 brass poles.

I don’t exactly know why, that will probably come to me later. They look like nan’s curtains to me.