Tiger Shower Curtain

A tiger shower curtain hangs at full height, so it shows the animal at a scale few other things in a home can match: a face as wide as the tub, or a whole scene of tigers in a forest pool. The curtains in this collection are printed across their entire surface, from photographs of tigers in the wild to a soft watercolor cub and a white tiger framed by flowers. Most come in a long list of widths, and several also list a bath mat among their options.

Tigers in the water

The Tiger in Water Shower Curtain is the clearest match for a bathroom: two orange tigers swim through a clear green pool, only their heads and backs above the surface, while a waterfall pours over mossy rocks behind them and the forest closes in along the top of the curtain. It comes in two versions, Waterfall and Jungle River, and its size options run from a narrow 90x180cm to a wide 240x180cm, with a mat-only option at 45x75cm.

The scene is true to life, as the section on tigers and water further down explains. Where most curtains in the collection pose the tiger for a portrait, this one shows it doing something tigers clearly enjoy, and the pool, the falling water and the wet stripes make it the design most at home beside a bathtub.

A tiger shower curtain with a face from edge to edge

Some designs give the whole curtain to a single face. On the Giant Tiger Shower Curtains, a white tiger looks straight ahead across the full width, with green eyes, a pink nose at the center and every whisker picked out in gray, white and black. At this size the face is far larger than life, and the pale fur keeps the whole curtain bright.

The Scary Tiger Shower Curtain shows the opposite mood. An orange tiger stands on a rock in a dark forest, snarling with its fangs bared, lit from behind by an orange glow like firelight, and the dark surroundings make the animal look as if it is stepping out of the curtain toward the room. It is the most dramatic design in the collection.

Watercolor cubs and pastel flowers

The Kids Tiger Shower Curtain swaps photography for paint. A tiger cub with blue eyes lies with its front paws stretched forward, painted in washes of orange, cream and gray on a white curtain, with loose splashes of color around it. Its only design option is called Baby Tiger, and the sizes list each width in both centimeters and inches.

The Tiger Shower Curtain flower brings the same light touch to a white tiger. Its face, with blue eyes, a pink nose and rust-colored stripes, sits in the middle of a curtain covered in large petals in pink, lilac and pale blue, drawn with fine outlines in the manner of a botanical sketch. Both of these designs keep much of the white background visible, so they feel softer and brighter than the photographic prints.

Widths, drops and bath mats

Size options vary from one design to the next, and each product page lists its own. Most widths share a drop of 180cm, starting at 90x180cm for a narrow stall and reaching 220x180cm or more for a bathtub with a long rail. The Tiger in Water Shower Curtain also offers longer drops, up to 180x230cm, for a high rod. Several designs list sizes in both inches and centimeters, so the numbers can be matched against a rail measured either way.

Some designs also include a bath mat among their options. On the Tiger in Water Shower Curtain and the Giant Tiger Shower Curtains, a 45x75cm mat appears in the size list next to the curtains.

Dark scenes and light backgrounds

Across the range, the backgrounds set the mood as much as the tigers do. The darkest designs, such as the Scary Tiger Shower Curtain, place the animal against black or deep shadow, so the orange of the fur and the white of the whiskers carry the whole picture. The green of the forest pool gives the Tiger in Water Shower Curtain a cooler, calmer feel, while the painted cub and the floral white tiger sit on white, with color used only where the artist put it.

From the shower to the beach

The step from shower to towel is a short one, and our tiger beach towel designs carry a tiger face in vivid rainbow colors, a roaring tiger in black and white, and bold stripes out to the pool or the sand. Back inside, tiger bedding prints the same kind of large tiger portraits across covers for every US bed size, and a tiger blanket brings them to the sofa, from white tigers to cartoon cubs. Everything sits within our wider tiger decor collection of rugs, lamps, canvas prints, tapestries and statues.

Why water suits the tiger

Most cats keep their paws dry, which makes the tiger stand out among them. Tigers are strong swimmers that often head into rivers and lakes to cool off in hot weather, and a tiger will lie in shallow water for long stretches on a hot day. In the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest shared by India and Bangladesh, tigers regularly swim between islands. Our article can tigers swim looks at why the tiger is so at home in water when so many of its relatives avoid it. That is also why a tiger in a pool or under a waterfall feels right on a shower curtain: the animal is shown in a place it actually enjoys.

Shower curtain questions, answered briefly

Can the bath mat be ordered without a curtain?

Yes, on the designs that list a mat on its own. The 45x75cm option on the Tiger in Water Shower Curtain and the Giant Tiger Shower Curtains is listed as the mat only.

Which designs are painted rather than photographed?

The Kids Tiger Shower Curtain, with its watercolor cub, and the Tiger Shower Curtain flower, with its white tiger among pastel petals, are the two painted designs shown here, and the gentlest in mood.

How wide is the widest curtain?

The widest option reaches 240x180cm, offered on the Tiger in Water Shower Curtain and the Giant Tiger Shower Curtains among others. Several designs stop at 220x180cm or a little less.