Alendel Tantra Fabric

5 colourways of an embroidery with an 18.5 by 17.25 in repeat, 54 in wide

Alendel lists Tantra as an embroidery in 5 colourways, in 76% polyester, 18% cotton and 6% linen, at 54 in wide. The colours run Cinnabar, Gravel, Jean, Moondust and Linen, across the orange, grey, blue and beige families. All 5 flagged in stock by Alendel. It sits in Alendel's C.I. Nirvana Book.

At 54 in it is cut up the roll like a conventional drapery cloth: a panel joins widths at the seam, which sits inside a pleat, and a Roman shade takes one width up to roughly 50 inches finished before it needs a joined width. Alendel gives the repeat as vertical 18.5 in, horizontal 17.25 in; we match it across every seam and every window in the room, which adds yardage and is part of the quote. The linen in it relaxes and tightens with the humidity, which is the look, and like every natural fibre it wants a lining that takes the UV rather than the face cloth. It weighs 1.10 lb per yard by Alendel's listing, and a cloth of that weight is hung on a track or rod sized for it. Care is P (professional dry clean); Alendel's own line reads: dry clean - gentle cycle only. Alendel lists no fire test for it, so it is a residential cloth unless a treated lining or a certificate is arranged for the project. Country of origin, as Alendel lists it: India.