They're really cute, but if you can't iron them how are you supposed to hem them? Normally all Ikea curtain panels come with fusible tape that allows you to them them up just using your iron, and so I take it that these don't have that option.

I guess if you want to use these you're supposed to hang the rod so you don't have to hem them up?

While I liked the pattern of the Cole & Son's wallpaper, I'm not sure if this print quite does the trick for me. The closeup looks like some of the drapes we found in NOLA after Katrina...

this could be a super cute shower curtain... i want it :)

Ooooh, the shower curtain idea is an inspired one... I wonder how they would react to the humidity/water? I have seen these in person, and they have a pretty open weave.

when i saw the first picture (the close up) i thought it was really old, molded-over fabric. oops.

This is great stuff! I long for the day that Ikea finally breaks into the wallpaper business, finally bringing high design wallpaper to the masses. As beautiful as their designs are, Flavor Paper can kiss my behind with their $175/roll prices!

But when IKEA *does* come out with wallpaper at $9.99 a roll, y'all will be saying, "At that price, can the quality be any good?" ;)

(and if these can't be washed or drycleaned, I'm guessing the bathroom might not be the best environment for them)

it bothers me that whoever designed these panels only bothered to do three original birch trunks, and then didn't even shift the copies around enough to keep the details from obviously repeating in a very unnatural way. if I had to live with these they would drive me nuts.

i'm familiar with these panels, and they are really cute in person. you need to use them in conjunction with a rail system that they sell. they are too stiff to be converted into shower curtain panels though. and p.s. ikea did sell wallpaper at one time. hopefully they will bring it back someday.

campari--

No doubt, a design/production decision to keep the price down.

I continually find it funny that people expect amazing, uncompromised design for cash-and-carry prices (see Aulaire's related frustration on the Brocade bureau post).

"I continually find it funny that people expect amazing, uncompromised design for cash-and-carry prices "

patrick (the other one), I don't expect the same quality, but as a designer myself, I know that particular choice had nothing to do with manufacturing costs. My guess would be that an assumption was made that the consumer of the product wouldn't care or notice and so was deemed unimportant. For all the time and money that go into a product from design to sale, this would have been one of the cheapest and easiest to address and would have enhanced the value (at least in my eyes) more than most.

I have these in my apartment currently as curtain screens to block out some of of the light from my blinds. They are very long and can be cut to length with no fraying. Also, ikea has those weighted rods to put on the bottom so it doesn't curl and to give it some tug.