‘Even the wind has become art’: woman turns home curtains into artistic scrolls with Chinese calligraphy to delight of art lovers online
- A woman in China who drew calligraphy characters on plain white window curtains to make them more interesting praised for stylish innovation
- However, some pointed out their similarity to calligraphy banners used at funerals in some places, saying the curtains reminded them of death
A woman who drew Chinese calligraphy on her home curtains for decoration has trended on mainland social media after internet users found pictures of her creations inspiring.
The woman, identified only by her first name Yating, said she spent three days drawing the calligraphy on plain white curtains, news website Xi Bu Jue Ce reported.
The resident of Quanzhou in China’s eastern Fujian province said she made the calligraphy curtains to replace the previous ones which had cartoon pictures and were not suitable for the style of her home.
By the window of her room is a desk on which she put “four treasures of intellectuals’ study in ancient time” – a writing brush, ink, paper and inkstones, which matched with the calligraphy-themed curtains.
The new curtains are not ordinary cloth or paper as some people assumed, but made of thin etamines, a loosely woven mesh-like fabric, according to Yating.
“The etamine is quite thin, so I have to be careful not to let my brush soak too much ink; otherwise, the ink would diffuse to a wide area,” she said.
