Shower Curtain Scenery

A Photographic Waterfall Printed Edge to Edge

Print fidelity is what a panel like Shower Curtain Scenery stands or falls on, and the woven polyester here holds the detail: individual leaves stay separate in the canopy, the falling water keeps its motion blur instead of collapsing into a white block, and the pool below shifts through three or four distinct greens. The weave is smooth and matte, with no sheen to catch the bathroom light and flatten the image out. It is printed on one face, so the reverse reads as a pale ghost of the same scene. Limestone terraces step down through the middle of the frame, each one carrying its own small fall, which is what gives the scene its depth rather than a single drop.

• Size: 71 x 79 inches, one cut
• Fabric: woven polyester, matte face
• Image: photographic waterfall and forest
• Grommets: 12 in silver-tone metal
• Hooks: 12 supplied
• Treatment: anti-stain and anti-mildew
• Surface: water-repellent, quick drying
• Care: machine wash at 86 F

A Long View for a Bathroom With No Outlook

Hung in an interior bathroom the panel behaves like a window onto somewhere else, and the room lighting decides which version you get: a warm bulb pushes the greens toward olive, a cool one keeps the water blue and the limestone grey. Leave the surrounding tile plain and let it work. It belongs with our nature shower curtains, where the subject is photographed rather than drawn, and for the same water handled as a graphic instead of a photograph, Light Blue and White Shower Curtain drops blue teardrops into a band of rippled turquoise.