Solid Color Printed Fabric Curtains are typically made from high-quality materials such as cotton, polyester, or blended fabrics. These materials are selected for their durability, texture, and dye-retention capabilities.
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Linen
Linen curtains are perfect for casual dining areas, bedrooms, and contemporary or coastal style living rooms. Linen is known for how nicely it drapes and its tailored look. Linen is a sheer fabric that lets light shine through, making it the perfect option if you are looking to fill your room with natural light. Similar to cotton, linen is durable and UV- and fade-resistant when exposed to sunlight – making them perfect for rooms that get a lot of sunlight.
Cotton-Blend
Cotton-blend curtains are often made from cotton and polyester. Cotton-blend curtains are a great option for most rooms, they are versatile in color and design are wrinkle-resistant.This type of fabric is breathable and easy to clean. Cotton-blend curtains are lightweight, so they're often paired with curtain liners for more privacy.
100% Cotton
100% cotton curtains are lightweight, creating a beautifully draped look. 100% cotton curtains are lightweight and easy to clean – making them a popular choice in most rooms. Cotton is an organic fabric and is known for being strong, durable, and allowing for gently filtered light. They offer a crisp and clean look while also being soft and subtle.
Polyester
Polyester is a popular option when it comes to curtain materials. Polyester curtains are sturdy, durable, and relatively affordable. Since polyester can be flammable, it's not recommended to hang this type of curtain in the kitchen. However, because they're so low-maintenance, they work well in living rooms and bedrooms.
Velvet
Velvet curtains are thick and help provide extra privacy. Their heavy construction helps block out excess light, sound, and insulate drafty windows. Velvet gives off a formal feel. Their luxe, polished look makes them the perfect choice for formal dining rooms or bedrooms.
Silk
Silk curtains are heavier than other curtains. Silk, known for being luxurious, creates a perfect romantic look for formal dining rooms, living rooms, and bedrooms. Since sunlight can damage silk consider adding a light-color lining or window shades to prevent damage or place them in rooms with less natural light. Silk curtains are often dry-clean only – be sure to read the manufacturer's recommendations on cleaning your curtains properly.
Synthetic
Synthetic fabrics, such as polyester, nylon, rayon and acrylic, are manufactured to be strong and durable. Synthetic curtains are known for being relatively inexpensive. Their tight weave not only gives off a sophisticated feel, but also helps resist stains, making them an excellent option for heavily trafficked rooms or dining rooms and kitchens where little hands may want to play after eating.
Rayon
Rayon curtains feel luxurious, like silk, and mimic the look of natural-fiber curtains. Rayon is affordable and versatile, making it an excellent option for any room in your home. Rayon curtains are soft, durable, and a great option for filtering light. Most rayon curtains are dry-clean only and can be damaged if washed in a washing machine. Before cleaning, check the manufacturer's recommendations to ensure you are cleaning your rayon curtains properly.
Patterns or Solids: How to Choose Drapery Fabric
Opposites Attract
Although it's possible to incorporate different drapery, upholstery, and bedding prints in your design scheme, this approach typically requires advanced design savvy to achieve a pleasing aesthetic that doesn't make your room look too "busy." The safest approach is to choose patterned fabric for your drapery if your bedding, upholstery, and area rugs sport solid colors. Conversely, if your bedspread or sofa boasts patterned fabric, you may want to adorn your windows with draperies of a solid, complementing color. However, this doesn't mean you have to stick to exactly the same one or two colors throughout your décor. Varying the colors by selecting slightly lighter or darker shades can inject visual interest into your room design.
Mixing It Up a Bit
If you decide to try your hand at combining different patterns with the same motif, interior designers recommend that you vary the patterns by size. For example, if your sofa upholstery has a large-print pattern, make sure you select a mid-size or smaller-print pattern for your drapes.
Reading the Room
Window treatments often set the tone for a room, so you'll want to consider whether any draperies-patterned or solids-will enhance or clash with the atmosphere created by your interior décor. For example, drapes with a large floral print in neon colors might be distracting in a living room with a stone fireplace, rustic wood beams on the ceiling, and an earth-tone color scheme.
What Makes a High Quality Drapery?
Draperies need to be distinguished from plain curtains. Draperies are made with home decor fabric and can be quite heavy. They must be lined at minimum, and interlining is ideal.
There are a few more features that make a drapery a high quality drapery, but a good home decor fabric and lining are a good starting point. Let's take a look at the features you'll want your next draperies to check off before you buy them.
Lining and Interlining
Lining is a white or ivory fabric that's sewn to the back of a drapery. It can either be 100% cotton or mix of cotton and polyester. Lining has some structure to it.
If the lining on a drapery feels like your inexpensive bedsheets at the store when touched, it will do little to give the proper structure to a drapery. The fibers on lining are tightly woven together, giving it a smooth, strong feel. The bottom hem of the lining and drapery must be sewn separately so that the drapery can fall to the floor naturally, without wrinkling.
Interlining floats as an additional layer between the main fabric and lining. It's a white material that's similar to felt. Its main purpose is to provide volume to a window treatment and to make it look more luxurious and heavy. Interlining is a good alternative to blackout lining. It does an excellent job at blocking the heat and cold from the outside, and it isn't as stiff as blackout lining is. A great choice when your window treatment needs some extra thickness but still needs to "flow."
The Right Length
Draperies frame the window on each side and fall to the floor. Some draperies are left a few inches longer, creating an excess of fabric on the floor that's known as a "puddle." Even if you're not a big fan of a puddle, your draperies need to "flirt" with the floor. Take a look at the drapery below in this formal dining room.
The designer did everything right for the client, except – the drapery is too short.
Stopping a drapery up to a quarter of an inch short from the floor is fine, but this gap is just too large. Now, with ready-made draperies, you may be tempted to lower the curtain rod and lower the drapery. Which brings us to the next feature of a high-quality drapery…
The Illusion of a Tall Ceiling
When my clients ask me nowadays how high they need to install their custom draperies, my answer is…
At least 12 inches above the window. And if you don't have 12 inches, then install it right under the crown molding or ceiling, whichever is lower.
Sure, there are exceptions, but why install a drapery too low? Who wouldn't want their ceiling to look taller than it really is? When looking for your next drapery, if you have an 8-foot ceiling, guess what the best way to install it will be? Yes, right under the ceiling. Here are a few examples of draperies installed correctly.
Framing a Window (Not Covering It)
A good drapery is supposed to frame a window, not cover it. If you cover your window, you should do it by choice, not because your drapery is too small and you have no other choice. In order to pull off this feat, a drapery manufacturer has to use quite a bit of fabric. That's why sadly 84-inch, single width draperies are so common.
They're cheaper to make. If your window is 40 inches wide, don't think that a curtain rod that's only 42 inches wide is the right fit. Think 55 to 70 inches wide instead, then order draperies that are the proper width for the curtain rod. Yes, the curtain rod may be almost double of what your actual window width is. But which of these options would you rather choose for your home?
The Header
The top of a drapery is known as the header. The most common (and basic) is a rod pocket. This simply means that there's a small pocket on top of the drapery that a curtain rod can slide through. You may have also seen grommet headers, tab top headers, back tab headers, among many others.
Some headers are pleated
There are many types of pleats like pinch pleats, euro pleats, pencil pleats, among many others. Draperies with pleated headers are usually installed on visible curtain rings, although you could choose a traverse curtain rod if you'd like to hide those rings. When making pleated headers, the easy thing to do is to use pleater tape that can simply be sewn into the header.
While the stiffness of pleater tape does give the header some structure, it doesn't always work. We like to handform some of our pleats instead of using pleater tape. This makes the pleats more pronounced and gives them more depth, not to mention a more natural look. Every project is different – some custom draperies work great with pleater tape, others not so much.
Deep, Large Pleats
If your drapery has a pleated header, check for the size of each pleat. Pleats require a lot of fabric to be formed properly. It's better to have fewer pleats on a drapery that stand out than to have small and shallow pleats. So how many pleats should a drapery have? Take the pinch pleat drapery as an example.
You want it to have about 4 to 5 pleats for every 50 inches of drapery fabric width. Once it starts having 6 pleats or more, the pleats become too small and look out of proportion compared to a heavy, long drapery. Small pleats can also get lost if the drapery fabric is busy or if the drapery is hung at least 9 feet from the floor.
The Proper Fullness
A good drapery has the right volume. Here's how a pair of draperies with a generous amount of fabric looks.
The window is a standard 70-inch double wide window often found in living rooms. However, each drapery has a double width. In the world of custom window treatments, each single width is about 50 inches when spanned out. Adding up all the numbers, these two draperies would be 200 inches wide if you were to lay them flat on the floor.
With this kind of volume, the Euro pleats stack up quite nicely at the top header. A relaxed faux shade was layered under the draperies.
The Weighted, Floating Bottom Hem
A high quality drapery has the main fabric, lining (and interlining if selected) sewn together on the sides and the top header. The bottom hem is different. In fact, each individual layer floats on its own. The reason why workrooms don't sew the bottom hem shut is to allow the drapery to float freely.
This prevents bunching up and wrinkling at the bottom. If this weren't done, your drapery would flare out into a sagging piece of fabric with an unpleasant stitch right under it at the bottom. Each side of the bottom hem has a hidden piece of metal weight, which is another sign of a high quality drapery.
Pattern-Matched Panels
If each drapery is more than 50 inches wide, you'll more than likely have a drapery with multiple widths. For example, a drapery that's "a width and a half" is roughly 75 inches wide, while a drapery that's "double wide" is roughly 100 inches wide. This requires a workroom to sew several pieces together.
If your fabric has a pattern, it needs to look nicely across the seams. This is a skill known as pattern-matching. Make sure to ask for it if you hire a workroom to create custom draperies for you.
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DT-TEX is a high-tech enterprise focusing on new flame retardant materials for more than 25 years, committed to bringing green, safe, and healthy flame retardant textiles into every family, and every public place, to make the world safer. The main products include high-performance flame-retardant textiles, flame-retardant composite materials, and flame-retardant nylon products. Our products have passed a variety of SGS flame retardant tests, They are widely used in aerospace, Orbit transportation, the high-end medical industry, and other fields. Our high-performance flame retardant textiles have reached the international GB8965-98 requirements, at the same time They meet the European Union "EN470, EN470-1, EN533, EN531, BS5852" and domestic railway flame retardant standard TB3237, oxygen index (LOI) & GT reach to 32%, Our flame retardant composite new material technology innovation level reached the domestic advanced Level.
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