Bella Fully Lined Cotton Pencil Pleat Curtains - Natural

The Bella curtains are a pair of pencil pleat curtains with a printed floral pattern, sized 229 x 229cm per pair. The face is woven from pure cotton, and the design is a digitally printed outline floral in white sitting across a soft, warm neutral ground. The tape at the top is a pencil pleat header, which means you gather it to the width you need and hang it from standard curtain hooks on a pole or track, giving you those tightly gathered, upright folds you can see along the top edge.

At 229cm wide across the pair and 229cm in the drop, these suit a standard-height window in a living room, bedroom or dining room, where you want the fabric to fall close to the floor. The muted floral works with painted walls, cane and timber furniture and softer neutral schemes rather than bold colour, so they sit quietly rather than dominating. Because a pencil pleat header can be gathered narrower or drawn wider on the track, one pair covers a fair range of window widths, though you will want the total gathered fabric to be comfortably more than the window itself for a full look.

The curtains are fully lined, with a lining that is a cotton and polyester blend, so they help with light control and privacy and give the drape more body and weight than an unlined panel. Cotton on the face means a natural fibre that feels soft and holds a printed pattern crisply, as you can see in the close weave in the fabric photograph. To keep the folds hanging well, they benefit from being drawn evenly and left to settle after hanging. If you are dressing more than one window in the same room, buying two pairs from the same range keeps the pattern and tone matched across the space.

Is this one curtain or a pair?

This is sold as a pair of curtains, so you receive two panels measuring 229cm wide and 229cm long each side of the window.

What is a pencil pleat header and what does it hang from?

A pencil pleat is a gathered tape at the top that pulls into tight upright folds, and it hangs from standard curtain hooks on either a pole or a track.

What is the fabric made from?

The face is 100 per cent cotton, a soft natural fibre that holds a printed pattern crisply, and the lining is a cotton and polyester blend for extra body.

Do these help block out light?

They are fully lined, which gives better light control and privacy than an unlined panel, though a lined cotton curtain reduces light rather than fully blacking out a room.

Will one pair fit my window?

The pair measures 229cm across in total and a pencil pleat gathers to suit your track, so aim for gathered fabric comfortably wider than the window itself for a full drape.