About Us...
The Curtain Girls Ltd is a traditional curtain making company, with workrooms in Suffolk, offering a countrywide service for lined and interlined curtains, drapes, blinds and bed dressings.
Our workrooms are 4000 sq. ft. and we currently have 14 staff, all trained in house. All our work is made in our workroom where we can closely monitor quality..
The owners, Jane & Sally, have been making curtains together for nearly 30 years and expanded into the current premises 15 years ago after a particularly large job ( Nowton Court) filled every space in their own separate workrooms & they had to rent storage space for 200 pairs of curtains.
The company has a very `family firm' feel about it, Sally's daughter Nadine is our cutter -she has been cutting fabric since she had to take two hands to the shears although she is currently on maternity leave. Young Tyler arrived a month early, spoiling all our plans for an orderly handover to Ula who will be holding the cutting fort for a few months. We have staff of all ages, from school leavers ( thank goodness or we will have no one to pass the skills on to!) to the more mature ladies, although, we are of course, all just girls.
As traditional curtain makers, we are committed to keeping the skills of hand made, hand headed curtains alive. All new employees are trained in house to maintain the high standards of skill required.
The introduction of The AMUSF industry specific qualifications are a boon to the world of interiors, with many of our staff wishing to add qualifications to their considerable skills and experience. Everyone who works for the company has an interest and knowledge of sewing, even the office staff who look forward to the madness that is pre-Christmas, as they get to join the pressers & packers to ensure everything possible is out on time.
Picture courtesy of Association of Master Upholsterers & Soft Furnishers.
'Curtain Girls' Sally Godbold & Jane Fiddian demonstrating a contrast lined cut-away goblet heading at the BBC Good Homes Show, NEC Birmingham
Examples of our work can be found hanging at:
Hintlesham Hall www.hintleshamhall.co.uk
The Crown & Castle www.crownandcastle.co.uk ( just been refurbished, winter 2006/7)
Nowton Court, Bury St Edmunds now revamped as http://www.heritagemanor.co.uk
Sketch ( very swish club in Conduit Street, London)
A Castle on Portland Island
The Drawing room of The Ashburn Hotel in Central London
Several show homes for Bovis Eastern
Plus the many venues where we have worked as a trade maker to leading interior decorators including a fitting trip to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. We were made so welcome by the client and his local team that despite the security difficulties, we felt very safe and wouldn't have missed it for the world.
