Share this page ... How can I help?The Curtain AgencyThe Curtain Agency is CLOSED for a Xmas/New Year Break until 10am Wed 4 Jan 2017 May we take this opportunity to wish all viewers too these pages a Happy Christmas & Prosperous New YearThe Curtain Agency added a new photo.See allThe Curtain Agency added 8 new photos to the album Made To Measure Fabric.Using both Current and Discontinued Fabric - A small Selection from our Current Stock (@400 Fabrics)The Curtain Agency added 5 new photos to the album Pre-owned in Showroom.A selection of secondhand curtains in stock - Contemporary, Traditional, Modern, Childrens', Silks, Wool etc.The Curtain Agency added 4 new photos to the album Pre-owned in Showroom.A selection of secondhand curtains in stock - Contemporary, Traditional, Modern, Childrens', Silks, Wool etc.The Curtain Agency added 5 new photos to the album Made To Measure Fabric.Using both Current and Discontinued Fabric - A small Selection from our Current Stock (@400 Fabrics)The Curtain Agency added 3 new photos to the album Accessories.Tiebacks in stockThe Curtain Agency added 2 new photos to the album Showroom Lighting — at The Curtain AgencyWe have an extensive range of secondhand chandeliersThe Curtain Agency updated their profile picture.

The Curtain Agency updated their cover photo.The Curtain Agency added 125 new photos from 23 September 2015 to the album Discounted New Fabrics on Offer.All available on a "Made to Measure" basis or Simple Fabric PurchasesThe Curtain Agency added 4 new photos.BRAND NEW Curtains recently made by John Lewis to a high standard for £540 in a stylish pretty pink trellis heavy duty VILLA NOVA Fabric "Mulu Trellis Lipstick" delivered to the Agency last week for re-sell by a Client. Size of Curtains 75"/191(w) x 102"/260cm(h) & are "On Offer" for £360 (33% DISCOUNT against the Pair's Full Make Up Costs), Not the 'Best Discount' usually Offered at the Agency but NOT to be sneezed at either! They are still a Quality BARGAIN! As with all New & Second Hand Curtains at the Agency, interested purchasers are able to buy the Curtain Pair on an "Approval Basis" (to try them out in their home first), something the Owner wished they had been able to do with John Lewis (rather than the usual mini-swatch offered!

The Fabric is still current The Curtain AgencyEveryday The Agency receives Curtains (& each week we receive the odd Chandelier) to join our Huge Curtain Displays (1,600+ Curtain Sets - one of the biggest Curtain Displays & certainly the largest numbers of Tall Curtain Sets in the UK). From now now on & on an occasional Basis, on Facebook we will Show Off some of the most Interesting & Best Quality Bargains that are offered up to us, generally the Very Best Some of the Chandeliers, Curtains & Discounted Fabrics offered up to us are of truly outstanding quality and some, especially the very tallest & widest curtains offer huge savings over commissioning equivalent sizes to be Made up from NewThe Curtain AgencyFacebook Page Created 3rd June 2015. After 20 years in business, the Agency has set up a Facebook link.The Curtain Agency added 23 new photos to the album Typical Curtains & Chandeliers on Offer.Fantastic 2nd Hand Quality FREE DELIVERY on orders over £40 Ts&Cs Apply 1. The sale runs from 20 Dec 2016 to 12 Jan 2017, 3pm.

2. This offer is only valid for orders placed online. 3. This offer applies to selected items only. 4. The updated discounted price is shown on the product page. 5. Offer excludes unwrapped and bridal. 6. Oxfam offers a standard UK delivery charge of £3.95 on all orders containing donated products sent by Royal Mail, with the exception of wedding dresses and other high-value or bulky items, which incur a mandatory courier charge.bay window curtain pole wickes 7. Oxfam reserves the right to end this promotion at any time.tesco black eyelet curtainsUpcycling may be viewed as a new “green” trend, but an Art Historian at the University of St Andrews has discovered 15th century book owners were way ahead of their time.ikea dignitet curtain hangers

In a new book published this week, Dr Kathryn Rudy has documented the miniature portraits added into medieval volumes, personalised verses written in the pages, and even curtains sewn into the books, to lend more grandeur to the illuminations. Her findings reveal book owners were keen to personalise second-hand books in the same way that people today use social media to document memories and memorable events such as commemorating a deceased relative.ravali curtains Centuries ago, medieval books were made by highly specialised scribes, illuminators and book binders with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants). curtain nugegodaBooks were expensive and built to last.heritage curtains adyar

They usually outlived their owners and rather than discard them when they became out-of-date, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. Dr Rudy, Senior Lecturer in Art History at St Andrews, said: “Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer.jcpenney linden street curtains “Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blank ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts – that they were custom-made luxury items – even when the production had become impersonal.”

The research is documented in a new book, Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts, made possible through Leverhulme Trust funding. The book has been published in a new electronic format Open Book which will make the research more accessible and affordable. In the fifteenth century Scotland produced few luxury manuscripts. Wealthy Scots often bought from the Netherlands and France, Scotland’s main trading partners, rather than England. In 1499 James Brown, dean of Aberdeen, bought such a manuscript prayer book from a workshop in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). The manuscript, now kept in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, had a portrait of him kneeling in prayer before an image of the Virgin (pictured right). He then personalized it by sewing curtains above the images to give them more grandeur and added verses for remembering the books of the bible, and a poem on his mother’s death, into some blank parchment at the end of the book.