French Cotton Curtain with Hemstitching for Small Window 41¾" x 27¼"

A small French cotton curtain, cut for a single window and finished with careful hemstitching — the drawn-thread technique in which threads are removed from the weave and the remaining threads bound into neat, evenly spaced clusters, forming a delicate ladder of open work.

At Chanteduc, Patricia and Walter's farmhouse and cooking school in Vaison-la-Romaine, curtains like this dressed the smaller interior rooms — a pantry, a bedroom, a casement looking onto the courtyard — filtering the Provençal light without blocking it entirely.

Today it works just as well hung at a bathroom or kitchen window, a garden room or a cottage casement.