Primitive Curtains

Decorating With Primitive Curtains

Primitive curtains bring us back to the early Americans where windows are dressed to reflect their pioneer resourcefulness, homespun folk art that exudes creativity. During the old times, draperies were used by the rich ones to purposely impress people with its classic and high-end look not with the purpose of making the room warmer.

On the other hand, primitive curtains appear to look simple and work its purpose of shading the room from too much sunlight and to warm the place during winter. With its appearance, people from the middle classes preferred this kind of curtain since it reflects humbleness compared with the draperies.

In the old times, primitive curtains where made from recycled fabrics and draped by a piece of twine which is tied to pegs made of wood to display it on windows. This is where the design for a primitive curtain started. Due to the hardship of shipping of ornate furnishings, people did everything from scratch.

With its long history and hardships, primitive curtains still maintains its looks by using recycled fabrics. Nowadays, when everything is ready-made, primitive curtains can act as your playful yet challenging project. Using embroidery, old table linen or crocheted edging is perfect in making a primitive curtain. Draping them in a diamond shaped pattern will instantly give a warm look to it.

Find Quality Primitive Curtains

To get the best kind of a primitive curtain, look for a low thread count by inch fabric from your local fabric merchandiser. There are several fabrics in low thread count available such as linen. This is a perfect material for your primitive curtain. Aside from linens, you can also go for other fabrics like gingham and calico.

There are also different ways of draping your primitive curtains, aside from draping them over a piece of twine or curtain rod, you can also sew a casting to have the twine or a curtain rod, something to hold on to.

Since primitive curtains comes with a very simple look, adding folk art designs is a great way of giving your primitive curtain a stylish look to it. Folk art designs can be added by using fabric paint or stencils. These can be available from your local fabric shop. Folk art designs are very traditional and would look perfect if applied to your playful looking primitive curtain.

Primitive curtains have always been designed to look just as how it uses to look during the early Americans. Nowadays, when houses became so modernized and its interior are all funky and colorful, you can give your house a playful classic look, by using tree branches as a curtain rod for your primitive curtain.

There are different ways and different looks that you can make your primitive curtain look like. It may still be a colorful one, but choosing dry colors like maroon, blue, battle green and brown are the very popular colors that are used for primitive curtains. The checkered pattern never goes out of style as well and could also be a perfect pattern for your curtain. Different styles can be achieved with primitive curtains even with its utilitarian look.

So don’t be afraid to make your room look classic and historical. You can always make them maintain its playful vibe just as how primitive curtains are these days.