- Sheer fabric
Curtains with a sheer fabric provide privacy, while letting daylight through and help you feel connected with the world outside the window.
Product details
This curtain provide privacy, while letting daylight through and help you feel connected with the world outside the window.
The pocket on the back of the curtain allows the rod to be slipped through unseen, creating a tailored look. Ideal for solutions where the curtain is not opened/closed often.
Easy to keep clean since it is machine washable.
Paulin Machado
Measurements
- Length: 50 cm
- Width: 150 cm
- Area: 0.75 m²
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SustainabilityPeople and planet
Sustainable life at home
Short curtains that make your home greener
At IKEA we are striving for a more sustainable future. That’s why we asked ourselves; how can we give a new, greener meaning to a simple thing like putting up new curtains at home? For our short curtains, we decided to do it by using recycled plastic bottles, fabric that is too short to become full-length curtains, and leftover pieces of fabric from our production of bed linen – threads and everything. It’s good for both the planet and the many people.
How to save water by using waste
To use waste as a resource is a classical way to be thrifty. When you can do it in big scale, it also means big savings of for example valuable water. That’s what we’re doing when we produce SIVIRENE curtain. It’s made of leftover pieces of fabric from our production of bed linen.
“It all started when we had a meeting with some of our textile suppliers. We wanted to see how we could make our products more sustainable by using resources smarter,” tells Nishant Verma, who works as IKEA engineer. One of our bed linen suppliers came up with a good idea; to use waste that’s generated in our own production. And not just the pieces that can be patched together, but all the fragments – threads and everything.
Leftover material saves water
Together with the supplier, Nishant and his team worked out the details. They decided that a small curtain like SIVIRENE would be the perfect test candidate for this production technique. To be able to use waste fabric, it first needs to be torn to fibres by big rollers with metal spikes. The fibres are then spun into a yarn. “80% of SIVIRENE comes from leftovers. The remaining 20% is new cotton that’s needed to make the fibres latch together. This way we’re using 80% less water compared to if SIVIRENE was made from new cotton alone”, says Nishant.
Small print for less imprint
The team also looked at how the design could contribute. They agreed that a small print pattern in a soft colour would give several benefits. Less chemicals would be needed to get the dye to attach to the fabric – and SIVIRENE would also be easier to match with other furnishings. “By using resources wisely, we can make it easier for people to live a more sustainable life at home. SIVIRENE is just one small part of that, but every step counts,” says Nishant.
Material
What is cotton?
Cotton is one of the world's most appreciated and used natural fibres. Textiles in cotton are soft, hardwearing and can be washed at high temperatures. They are also good at breathing and absorbing moisture – making them pleasant to wear close to the body. Today at IKEA we use more and more recycled cotton and strive to make sure that all the new cotton we use has been grown and produced with less and less amounts of pesticides, fertilisers and water.