Indigo Wave Split Curtain 'Konami'

Cream noren curtain with small indigo waves in tight rows all over

Small indigo waves, all over cream. This noren is a cream ground printed dense with small breaking waves in a single indigo, each one a curl of foam the size of a thumb, in tight rows across both panels, so the curtain reads as an indigo texture from a distance and as a sea of small waves from close. It is the finest-scaled of the wave curtains in the collection, and the one that looks most like a dyed cloth.

It is the noren for a person who wants indigo, and it goes with the indigo pieces in the range.

The name, Konami, is the small wave, and the curtain is thousands of them.

The curtain is a lightweight woven polyester printed through, hemmed on all sides, with a rod channel sewn across the top and a split running from just below the channel to the hem, so it hangs as two panels that part when you walk through and fall closed behind you. It is photographed on a rod across a doorway at the same scale as every noren in the collection.

Hang it on a tension rod or a dowel through the channel, across a doorway, a kitchen entrance, a corridor, a window or a wall, at a height where the hem clears the head. In Japan it hangs at a shop door to say open and in a house to make one room into two. It moves in a draught and it is meant to.

The scale is the detail: the waves are small and close, dozens across the width, and the indigo is a single colour, so the pattern reads as a stencil-dyed cloth of the old kind. The cream between the waves is the colour of unbleached cotton cloth, though the cloth is polyester.

Machine wash cool on a gentle cycle, hang to dry, and iron on low if the fold shows. The print is through the cloth and does not fade in an ordinary room; keep it out of direct sun if you want the colour to last for years.

From across a room it is a cream curtain with an indigo texture. From close the texture is waves, the waves show their curls, and the indigo its one colour. It is the noren for a bedroom door and a person who wears indigo.

Nine sizes, width by drop: 55 by 90, 65 by 100, 70 by 120, 80 by 130, 90 by 150, 95 by 160, 100 by 170, 110 by 180 and 120 by 200 cm. Measure the doorway and choose a width a few centimetres wider and a drop that clears the head; the split is in every size.