de Le Cuona | Antique Paisley – Burgundy

Antique Paisley is a paisley in Burgundy, a deep wine red, on a cloth that is mostly wool with some cotton. The pattern is the traditional teardrop motif, but the scale and the colour make it feel settled rather than busy, a little like a good old shawl hung at a window. Paisley can look fussy when it is too bright or too small, and this does not. The wool gives it a soft, slightly dry hand and a gentle drape, and in a room it brings warmth and a sense of age.

The cloth is 75% wool and 25% cotton, and it is 140 cm wide. The vertical repeat is 43 cm and the horizontal repeat is 36 cm, which is a modest repeat that suits a standard window without wasting too much. It is sold by the half metre, so you can order a sample length or the exact quantity you need. The SKU is U1. We have not been given a Martindale rating or a place of manufacture, and as it is sold for curtains, those are not figures we would normally rely on for this use.

We would use this for a pair of curtains in a sitting room, hung from a wooden pole and dressed to the floor, especially in a room with panelling or a bookcase wall. In a bedroom it would work as a heavy winter curtain, lined and interlined to keep out the cold. We would pair it with plain walls in a warm white or a soft stone, and with a quieter stripe or plain linen on the furniture, so the paisley is the one patterned element.

For making up, the pattern must be matched across each drop, so allow extra length for the 43 cm repeat on every cut, and have your workroom confirm the quantity once the drop is measured. We would line and interline the curtains, which suits a wool cloth and helps them hang well. Wool curtains are best dry cleaned, and we would keep them out of direct sun where possible to protect the colour. Order all lengths together so they come from the same run.