Nan’s Curtains
One finished pair of minature curtains. This photo shows them balanced on a hook but they will have their own attachments similar to the real thing.
Thinking ahead to finishing all 18 sets of curtains and then figuring out how to assemble them together. In my mind’s eye I have them placed in a grid format or in a row.
But what set me thinking was the prospect of weaving the curtains into a personal history. Photo- shopped images of ‘nan’ with these curtains in the hanging in the lounge?
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.
