With an art education and itchy fingers I was destined to end up in an industry that required practical skills and so here I am 40 years later with a huge breadth of curtain making and furnishings skills behind me, from tented ceilings, quilted bedcovers, swags and tails to apex curtains and even becoming the inventor of the Roman blind Integral Return to hide the ends of those ugly headrails and improve the look of custom made Romans.