Isabella Sheer is a large-scale floral from the Ashmore collection, GP & J Baker's understated line of painterly prints and embroideries in a soft, contemporary palette, worked here on a genuinely sheer linen-viscose ground rather than a furnishing weight. At 78 by 63.5 centimetres the repeat is generous, so the flower has real presence even through the fine, light-filtering cloth, an effect a furnishing-weight linen could never quite manage.
The cloth is 30 per cent viscose and 70 per cent linen, woven and finished as a true voile rather than a furnishing linen, so it lets light through while still carrying the printed pattern clearly across the width. It is 127 centimetres wide, with a 78 centimetre vertical and 63.5 centimetre horizontal repeat, and GP & J Baker specify it for curtains. There is one colourway, Ivory, a soft, warm white that keeps the print quiet rather than graphic against the light.
We use it as a sheer curtain in its own right, hung close to the glass to filter daylight while still showing the floral pattern, or layered behind a heavier curtain for privacy without losing the light. It suits a bedroom or a garden-facing sitting room particularly well, where the light does most of the work through the day. Sold by the half metre; order a sample to see it in your own light.
Sheers need generous fullness to hang well, so allow at least double, and ideally two and a half times, the width of the window when you calculate quantities. Match the print across widths where the seam will show against the light, and have voiles hemmed by a workroom used to handling fine, light cloth with care.
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Composition: 30% viscose, 70% linen
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Width: 127 cm (50 in)
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Pattern repeat: 78 cm vertical, 63.5 cm horizontal
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Suitable for: Voiles / Sheers, Curtains
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Care: Dry clean professionally; do not wash, bleach or iron.
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Collection: Ashmore, GP & J Baker
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Colourways: 1 (Ivory)
