Linen Drapery Editor

Mara Levin

Mara is the voice behind our linen drapery coverage. Her articles cover slub texture and weight, lining choices that decide whether a panel survives morning sun, pinch pleat and inverted box header behavior, and the price math behind every Liz Linen, Patti Linen and made-to-order panel before you commit. If you want to understand why a panel reads designer-grade in one room and synthetic in another, Mara's articles are where to start.
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Two Pages Header Styles: All 9 Options Explained (2026)

Two Pages Header Styles: All 9

The Two Pages configurator answers your header decision in four questions: your fabric family, your hardware type, your budget headroom, your formality target. Everything else, the fold count, the fullness ratio, the drape rhythm, follows from those four. Nine header options sit on the other side of that filter. This guide walks the nine as … Read more

Jacquard Curtain Buying Guide (2026): Woven Motifs, Real Weights, and How to Pick From Lydia’s 9 Signature Patterns

Jacquard Curtain Buying Guide

Six words separate people who buy the right jacquard curtain from people who buy the wrong one. Weave. Warp. Weft. Motif repeat. Gsm. Dye lot. Understand those and the decision unfolds in a specific order: motif first, then weight, then header and lining, then colorway. Jacquard is not a decoration you apply to a curtain. … Read more

Custom vs Ready-Made Curtains: The Honest 2026 Buying Guide

Custom vs Ready-Made Curtains

Before you compare custom against ready-made, pin down six terms that most product pages assume you already know. Get these wrong and every comparison after reads like a foreign language. Get them right and the answer for your window becomes obvious in about ten minutes. The six terms are made-to-measure, standard sizes, drop, header, lining, … Read more