Trending Now: Patchwork Window Coverings

Photo by Marcia Mihotich

Noticed recently: tone-on-tone cloths patched together in subtle, often perfectly imperfect windowpane patterns. With roots in the Korean Bojagi cloth tradition, similarly stitched cloths are making appearances as window coverings. Take a look.

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Niki Tsukamoto of LA-based Lookout & Wonderland created a long swath of patchwork panels for the California bedroom of Serena Mitnik-Miller (of General Store).

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Stitched-together window coverings can also be found on Etsy, like this Ramie Korean Patchwork Curtain by South Korea-based maker LunarJogak.

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A white-on-white Pojagi Scarf from Dosa, made from recycled khadi silk and cotton.

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We’ve posted before on Lucy Bathurst, “custom curtain maker to the stars.” Here are the simple cafe curtains she created of stitched-together linen voile at Spring restaurant in London.

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Danish fashion and textile designer Line Sander Johansen creates minimal cloths and curtains in her "scrapwork series."

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Another curtain by Lookout & Wonderland, this one in shades of blue.

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The home of Fog Linen founder Yumiko Sekine features a DIY patchwork curtain made from sewn-together linen kitchen cloths.

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