Dulux Trend: Hope

I’m starting with the first of the trends presently posted on the Dulux website:

http://www.dulux.co.uk/index.jsp

This trend is called Hope. It’s about very pale pastels, barely tinted whites, you might say. Several of them are used in a single room, and they are layered on one another translucently, one pattern shadowing another or reflecting another. The different elements take the available light and pass it back and forth amongst themselves, playfully.

I thought immediately that devore fabrics would fit excellently into this trend. A devore fabric is one that contains two different fibers with different vulnerabilities and different dying properties. Because of these different qualities, the different fibers can be dyed different colors, different barely tinted whites, a grey and a cool pink, for example, and one fiber can be “burnt out” by painting on a pattern with a solution that dissolves that fiber (just one possibility for my fabric painting skills). The result is a fabric with translucent “windows” of the remaining fiber. Here’s a picture:

I also think free lace done all in pale tints would look beautiful, perhaps as a table runner. Free lace is done by laying out ribbons and fancy yarns on a sheet of a material made to dissolve when exposed to hot water. Then the ribbons and yarns are permanently trapped in one way or another, either by sewing an open grid over them or by tacking their intersections to a translucent background that won’t dissolve. Free lace looks like this:

And wouldn’t curtains or a tablecloth crocheted in an off white look fine in such a room? Say a pattern like this for example?

What do you think? Do you have other ideas? Want to critique mine?