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• Renaissance Era
• The Renaissance (14th-17th centuries)

brought life, color, and light to the
everyday people. Architecture started to
embrace the use of glass panes as
windows, which brought in the light but
also the creepers. For the first time,
people were able to see directly into
another’s private space. Therefore, those
who lived during the Renaissance used
fabrics over the windows for privacy. It is
worth noting, though, that although this
use sounds just like how we use curtains
today, the design was still vastly different.
• Curtains in the Baroque style use
multi-layered forms of heavy and
expensive fabrics of different colors.
The use of one-color variants is also
common. Types of fabrics in baroque
for curtains, which are better to use, it
is silk, satin, velvet, jacquard,
Damascus. They trim with fringe,
brushes, glass beads. A feature of
these curtains is the lining, which
increases the expressiveness and
splendor. And if you also use a
curtain, then the burnout of expensive
tissue under the sun is excluded,
besides, it protects well from the cold.
Pine paneling was usually painted in brown,
grey, olive green or off-white and moldings
were picked out in gilt. Walls were similarly
painted in muted tones like white, stone, drab
or olive, as well as in brighter colors like pea
green, sky blue, straw, yellow and deep green.
Chocolate brown was often used on woodwork.
Printed fabrics came in reds, browns, purples

and black, and silk and velvets in green, blue
and gold. Imported calicoes from India were in
strong colors -crimson to shell-pink, deep violet
to pale lavender, indigo blue, lemon yellow and
sage green.
Fabrics
Silks, damasks, needlework;
Checked Holland covers are often used to
protect upholstery.
• Neoclassical interiors use mostly
natural fabrics. But instead of
jacquard and tapestry, pay attention
to dense cotton, linen, mixed
fabrics. They are not only cheaper,
but also much more convenient to
operate and maintain.
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curtains in neoclassic are lighter and
more concise than in classical style.
Lambrequins are appropriate, but
simple rectangular or rounded on
top of dense curtains on the floor.
• The Empire style in any of its expression,
whether it is architecture, interior or
pieces of decor, is the top of pathos, luxury
and solemnity. It is the embodiment of
great victories and greatness dictated by
Napoleon himself. The influence in
Regency interiors was particularly strong
in the design of furniture, generally
fashioned from mahogany or ebony and
featuring elaborate brass mounts or gilded
carvings, that drew their influence from
the styles of antiquity. Gleaming golden
swans, winged lions, sphinxes and
sacrificial ram’s heads all imparted an
exotic and ostentatious grandeur to the
work of the fashionable decorators, and
none were more fashionable or influential
than the Parisian partnership of Percier and
Fontaine, the foremost exponents of
Empire style
• By the 1840s with the Industrial Revolution having had its full effect, fabrics
could be made much more cheaply using power looms and other machinery
and curtains started making an appearance in the homes of more ordinary folk.
Fabrics of a high quality could now be woven at a much lower cost,
incorporating flowers and leaves, and fine outlines in designs influenced by
French fabrics. There were also innovations in dying and printing. Whereas at
the beginning on the 19th century dyes were made from plants and animals
substances which were hard to replicate consistently, in 1856 William Perkins
discovered the first aniline dye, mauve. Other synthetic dyes followed in the
1860s, 1870s and 1880s. Roller printing was also introduced from the mid 1820
using engraved rollers which was much faster than block printing. In the 1860s
William Morris and Thomas Wardle rejected the synthetic dyes and used
natural pigments to create printed textiles that they began to sell as furnishing
fabrics. However many consumers preferred the more vibrant colors offered by
synthetic dyes at the time and it took time for William Morris and his designs to
be appreciated and popularized, and become the enormous influence in
Victorian and Arts and Crafts interior design that they have emerged as today.
• In art deco style art
deco inspired
upholstery fabrics
include velvets and
leather .
• Lean towards solid
colors or textiles with
geometric designs
,Also upholstered
furniture with solid,
contrasting blocks of
color is considered art
deco design.

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