Our story has reached October 2006 and I had made the big decision to move the business from home into a rented commercial unit. We had started to discuss moving house because we had no space but soon realised that if Denton Drapes moved out then our family home would be quite big enough for [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Happy Birthday to Us (Part 3)
Posted in Soft Furnishing News, tagged Community, Curtain Making, Milton Keynes, Soft Furnishing Business, Soft Furnishings on January 30, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Happy Birthday to Us (Part 2)
Posted in Soft Furnishing News, tagged Curtain Making, Soft Furnishing Business on January 22, 2011 | 11 Comments »
In part one of this memoir I started my curtain making life, set up my business and threw myself into learning the craft. My obsession with soft furnishings and my collections of books, samples, materials and equipment soon filled our small space. When we got the opportunity to move house I was determined that our [...]
Happy Birthday to Us (Part 1)
Posted in Soft Furnishing News, tagged Milton Keynes, Soft Furnishing Business, Soft Furnishings on January 17, 2011 | 10 Comments »
On the 17th of January 1997 I gave up my career in the fashion industry with a vague idea of making soft furnishings for people who wanted something better than was then available in the high street or from the average home based seamstress. I had no idea that fourteen years later Denton Drapes would [...]
Denton Drapes on Twitter
- More of the same this week. We only have three more pairs of silk interlined curtains to complete then it's on to... fb.me/vyMRWSNT Tweeted 1 day ago
- Congratulations to Beford which has been chosen as 1 of the 12 Mary Portas Pilot Towns.... fb.me/1tJBK5M3U Tweeted 3 days ago
- I posted 3 photos on Facebook in the album "May 2012" fb.me/1wpBrAGqx Tweeted 4 days ago
- Still working on silk interlined curtains in various colours, we also squeezed in a large roman yesterday in The... fb.me/1NxCLhvih Tweeted 4 days ago
- Culdn't believe icecream van just drove into farmyard this afternoon. 99's all round! He promised he'll be back gonna be a great summer. Tweeted 5 days ago
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