Color Names

Velvet Curtain

Dusty theatre curtains, their velvet pile worn smooth.

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Velvet Curtain is a cool grey, close to blue.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Velvet Curtain

Velvet

Velvet is a type of woven fabric with a dense, even pile that gives it a distinctive soft feel. Historically, velvet was typically made from silk. Modern velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends.

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Curtain

A curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or water.

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velvet

Noun

  1. A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
  2. Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

Verb

  1. To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
  2. To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
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curtain

Noun

  1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.

Verb

  1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
  2. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
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