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Nobody Cleans Their Curtains, and the Reason Is Always the Same

Taking curtains down is a two-person job with a ladder, and rehanging them straight afterwards is worse. So they hang there quietly filtering every bit of airborne dust in the house, year after year.

Yarraville is inner-west Victorian and Edwardian workers’ cottages around a village centre, now thoroughly gentrified but still sitting close to the port and the freight routes that come with it.

Those cottages are small, with narrow hallways and original boards under the carpet in many cases. Like Richmond, the tight floor plan concentrates foot traffic into a single line, so wear shows early along the hall even when the bedrooms are fine.

The other local factor is airborne dust from the port and truck routes. Homes with windows facing the busier roads collect noticeably more fine grit on curtains and upholstery than the streets tucked behind the village.

The heading tape at the top collects the worst of it, because that is where the fabric bunches into permanent folds. It is also the part nobody can see from inside the room, which is why curtains that look acceptable from the sofa are still releasing dust every time they are drawn.

Open out a pleat and look at the fabric inside the fold. It has been shielded, and the colour difference against the exposed face is usually more than people expect. That difference is exactly what comes out, and cleaning on the rail means the hang and the hem line stay precisely where they are.