Cravotta Interiors The drapes were made by our local seamstress. They are 22' high cashmere panels. The tricky thing about functional drapes that tall is that you never know how much they may shrink or stretch. In this case, they were blocked on a 30' long table and were hand-sewn to fit the space within an 1/8'. Even so, they stretched between 3"-4" in the first couple of months and had to be completely re-hemmed on-site to insure a proper fit.
tjaklitsch What a helpful response!! I would not have considered the issue of stretching -- I too have a room with 2 story windows that I'm trying to decide how to dress and that's an issue I'll definitely have to take into consideration!
Legend has it that Napoleon gave his wife, Empress Eugenie, 17 cashmere shawls. The shawls were said to be so fine that they could be drawn through her wedding ring. The celebrated "ring shawls" started a craze among the royal courts."Cashmere" was first used in the fashion lexicon around 1837, to refer to finely twilled dress fabric in England, which was made from Kashmir goat wool.These magnificent cashmere window panels are a stunning example of how you can use this fabric to its maximum potential in the 21st century.