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2. Curtain tie-back - Wikipedia

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   A pair of double-tassel tie-backs. A curtain tie-back is a decorative window treatment which accompanies a cloth curtain.Within the field of interior decoration, tie-backs made of fabric are classified as a kind of "soft furnishing" (along with other fabric-based décor such as pillows, valances, towels, blankets, mattresses, bed skirts, bedspreads, jabots, and shower and window curtains ...

3. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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   Case curtains: some elaborate 18th-century beds were given permanent protective case-curtains which ran on an iron rod in front of the bed proper to keep the dust off the precious fabrics. The French designer Daniel Marot called the cover curtains un tour de lit. [16] Bed curtains were lined with a show fabric, often different to the outside. [17]

4. Curtain - Wikipedia

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   The coated fabric is typically referred to as a lining, which simply refers to a coated fabric that does not have any particular color or pattern. Curtains may be held back with tie-backs (a loop of cloth, cord, etc., placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side; typically passed through a ring on a hook attached to the wall, and ...

5. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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   Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

6. Noren - Wikipedia

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   Using fabric curtains as dividers was an idea imported from China around the same time as Zen Buddhism. [2] The term noren began to be used in the late Kamakura period . Merchants in the Edo period added store names or family crests to the noren to represent the business name or trademark, making the noren a symbol of credibility and reputation.

7. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   The curtain wall itself, however, is not ordinarily required to have a rating. This causes a quandary as compartmentalization (fire protection) is typically based upon closed compartments to avoid fire and smoke migrations beyond each engaged compartment. A curtain wall by its very nature prevents the completion of the compartment (or envelope).