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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

How to Choose Curtain Patterns

How to Choose Curtain Patterns
How to Choose Curtain Patterns
Today a call for of a curtain is such a trend. Indeed, when a homeowner need privacy for their house or room but still want to get the style and beautiful, they can use a curtain for covering the windows. But sometimes, they don’t get the meaning except privacy. It means that a curtain has another meaning except privacy such a beauty, elegance, glamour, and more. Then how to choose the curtain pattern?

How to Choose Curtain Patterns
First of choosing the curtain pattern is texture. To select the texture of fabric curtains, consider the atmosphere of the room to be created. In the formal room, you can choose the material of silk or velvet. Other fabric choices that can be more easily washable rayon fabric are a mix of fine and cotton sateen. As for the rooms that are relaxed, you can choose a bloated linen or velvet fabric wrinkled. Cotton cloth can also be easily coordinated with any room concept because such a neat texture of wool fabric.

How to Choose Curtain Patterns
Second, in choosing the curtain pattern is color. Color selection is based on whether the blackout curtains design will be incorporated with the design of the room to sweeten zoom. If so, choose colors that match the color of the curtain walls but darker, could also replace it with a neutral color. Meanwhile, the use of bold colors is going to make curtains stand out. Keep in mind, the rooms are much exposed to sunlight, the color of the curtains with stripes will further beautify the look of the room.


How to Choose Curtain Patterns
Third of choosing the curtain pattern is the style. Interior design rules, generally if the furniture of the room already has a motif, let the curtain pattern image appear innocent. Vice versa, if the furniture without motive, then choose curtains with interesting motif. Common motif that many people enjoy and look stylish is small motifs and neutral, for example, is a point and a line. Motifs like this; it would seem to have a wonderful texture when viewed from a distance. Select motif curtains that are still associated with the concept of space in order to look harmonious.

How to Choose Curtain Patterns

How to Choose Curtain Patterns





Monday, February 23, 2015

Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies

Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
JLF there is any one single key to turning out tailored, professional looking curtains and draperies, it is measuring accurately before you start. Count on having enough material to avoid a skimpy result, so that you won't be haunted as you go along by that nervous feeling that you're not going to have enough material to provide full hems and ample trim. Remember particularly that if you use a hard-to-match color or an exclusive print, your fabric supplier may not have any more material in stock when you discover that you've underestimated your needs; and to avoid needless delays once you've begun, be sure you have sufficient yardage. You can always use material you have left over for pillow flounces, slipcover trim, valances, tiebacks, and so forth. On the other hand, when measuring don't be too lavish, or you may end up with too much material in your draperies or curtains with that clumsy, home-made look. As with every other art from cooking to painting the trick is to strike a happy balance.

Use a steel tape or yardstick for measuring your windows. A dressmaker's measuring tape will not assure an accurate measurement. But when you come to measuring your material, a yardstick or steel tape may stretch your fabric, so use your cloth tape. Lay the tape measure right on the material so that it will be in line with the edge you are measuring.

Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
It goes without saying that you've made your decision as to what type of draperies you plan to have before you purchase your fabric. And before you shop for materials you want to have your measurements very firmly in mind. In fact, you will benefit from keeping a little notebook for measurements window measurements, size of valance, cornice, or swag you'll want to make, and how much material you'll need for the glass curtains, the draperies, the valance, the lining, etc. You can also enter in this book comparative prices on fabrics and hardware. Before you shop then, you will have measured the window and approximated the length and width of curtains and draperies, and in addition the allowance you will want to make for casings, headings, shrinkage, hems, and other details.

Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
Tailoring for Professional Looking Curtains and Draperies
The first step in measuring is to measure each window in a room. Sometimes even windows right next to one another are of different heights, especially in older apartments and often even in new homes where some structural detail may have caused the builder to place the windows at different levels. You may find as great a variation as two inches, and since one advantage in having draperies is that they can conceal structural unevenness in a room, you will want to know whether you have such a problem.


Measurements you will need for each window are 1) the width from trim to trim; 2) the length from top window sash to sill; 3) the length from top window sash to just below the apron; 4) the length from top window sash to floor; 5) the length from above the window frame to floor; and 6) for draperies, the width from outside the window frame to baseboard or floor. Measurements will depend on what type of window treatment you plan. On the whole, it is possible to generalize that glass curtains generally require measurements for within the window frame, whereas draperies, which are hung from above the window, also extend below it. 

Monday, February 9, 2015

Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics

Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics

Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Increasingly you will find fabulous synthetic curtains and drapery fabrics in the stores. Whether it is a "concealed" plastic that is, a plastic you would never dream was plastic unless you were told, such as a velvet pile of nylon or a filmy lace or whether it is a fabric more easily recognized as synthetic, such as rubber-like shower curtain material or plastic film, there are certain advantages you should appreciate and certain things you should know about these test-tube materials. First of all, not all plastics have the same properties; try to get a brand name plastic or synthetic that is labeled and tells what it will do. Follow directions for laundering, cleaning and care. Inquire as to the fiber blend if the material is not a pure plastic.

In sewing plastic film materials, handle them lightly. Try not to baste, tack or pin, as you won't be able to repair the holes made. Use Scotch tape instead for preliminary marking, or try paper clips or weights. Don't press or crease your plastic fabric, either. Plastics of this type are easily stitched. Use a fine needle and a mercerized thread, or if sewing a nylon or other plastic fiber fabric, use nylon thread. These threads are said to possess the pliability of cotton, with the strength and elasticity of nylon.

Newest of the synthetics is orlon, a synthetic fiber which is said to be virtually indestructible by the elements that is, by sun, light and heat. Orion can be hung at windows that get strong sunlight or over radiators without fear that this will ultimately weaken them. While nylon has what is called "static electricity" and has a tendency to stick to the windows, orlon is not affected in this way. Orion is little sheerer than nylon, with a trifle more body, and because of this you can get a good drape with it.

Nylon today is being produced in a wide range of traditional weaves and in many beautiful colors; in its sheer and marquisette forms it leads the other synthetics in sheerness and softness and in the delicacy of its colors. Nylon marquisette is the most practical of the nylon fabrics, taking the place of conventional sheer cottons and rayons, but bringing a new laundering ease. Nylon ninon, more opaque than the marquisettes, is a favorite for draperies, glass curtains used without draperies, and for wall-to-wall draw curtains. Nylon lace retains its shape after washing and need not be stretched. Lighter and sheerer than lace woven of conventional cottons, it has an almost silvery sheen. Other glass curtain possibilities of nylon include a new tricot novelty weave, white on white Jacquards, satin weaves, sheer plain weaves embroidered in white with little flowers, very sheer novelty striped taffetas, and faille. There is also a closely- woven voile.

Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Deterioration is not a serious factor with plastic fibers of a glossy type, and strong sunlight affects nylon, for example, less than taffeta and silk. But dull yarns are more quickly harmed by exposure to sunlight, and nylon velvets and other pile fabrics should not be hung at windows that get long exposure to sun.

Fiberglas is heavier than nylon or orlon, but because it is spun from actual marbles of limpid glass, it has a quality of translucence and a delightful shimmering quality. It is available in many pastel shades, and makes an effective wall-to-wall drapery.

You can put draperies of plastic or fiberglass away for winter or summer without fearing mildew. Plastic and glass fabrics are easy to keep clean because they shed dirt and dust. If the dyes and finishes are color- fast, then washing presents no problem, and since the fibers are smooth and don't hold water, the fabrics dry quickly. The spun nylons, cut into soft, fuzzy yarns, dry more slowly.

As you can see the subject of fabrics is a vast one, with many variations and possibilities offered the discriminating. It is foolhardy to make rules about which fabrics go with which styles of decorating, as contemporary decoration increasingly adopts materials associated with periods and schools of design no longer fashionable, and brings them up to date with modern colors and methods of manufacture. Thus brocades, taffetas, matelass6s (which are made of soft double compound fabrics with a quilted appearance) are in high style once more as decorative fashion takes its cue from far-away places or the past.

Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Fabulous Synthetic Curtains and Drapery Fabrics
Today, for example, there is new interest in documentary fabrics. Documentaries are not merely the small, repetitive patterns of calico for use in French Provincial or Early American rooms, that many people think them to be. They are rather those fabric designs that were worked out long ago by craftsmen as, for example, a French artist in Paris during the time of
Louis XVI, or by a pioneer farm woman in the days of the settling of our own country. Those from abroad may have found their way into American hands with our clipper ships or Nantucket whalers, wrapped around some jewel or ornament a sailor was bringing home. They are, in other words, documents of the past, and in color and pattern they bring back the flavor of other days and ways of life, and so they include not only the small-scale cretonnes but the large-scale chintzes, elegant damasks and brocades. If you have a period room, the good documentary fabrics will complement the mahogany, fruitwood, walnut, maple, pine or whatever wood you have that was used by cabinetmakers of the period you have adopted.

On the whole, however, for modern rooms, we might sum up by stating that nylon, fiber glass, marquisette and ninon nets, gauze, taffeta, satin, raw silks, moires, denims and sailcloths, monk's cloth and homespun, are good. Metallic accents are used.

For French Provincial in the country, use homespun colors, calicos and cottons, toile de Jouy and documentaries. For city French Provincial use, silks and deeper colors, more decisive patterns should be employed.

For Early American use small quiet chintzes, calicos, ginghams and other cottons of this type, hand-blocked linens and cretonnes. For Victorian consider lace, the pile fabrics and brocades.

Queen Anne, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and other 18th century styles can associate well with richer satins, silk brocades, damask, moire, and chintz although Queen Anne is more simple than Chippendale.


General principles when selecting a fabric are: When you shop for fabrics ask what special qualities the fabric has, whether it should be washed or cleaned, and how to care for it. If it is labeled, read the label before buying it. 

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