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Metallic eyelets are usually installed on a metal rod adding a modern, minimalistic look to your drapes. This treatment works well with plain fabrics and is especially effective where other fixtures in the room are metallic.
The stack is minimal when pulled back off the wall with one and one half times the fullness in the width being standard, brilliant when you have little wall space beyond the window/door frames and tiebacks are not often needed. They can also be used for valances.
The tab top treatment gives drapes an informal feel, ideal for bedrooms. This style is seen at its best with light, simple fabrics, and in neutral colours or pastel shades, which will provide contrast with the rod.
This style is especially suitable for sheers or voiles, (see our showroom displays) or where drapes will not be regularly pulled open and closed, as tab tops are not the easiest drapes to pull across a rod.
Pencil pleating is probably the most common treatment, using a greater width of fabric with evenly spaced narrow pleats. They have a pocketed hem up the top (curtain tape which comes in different widths) which hooks are attached the tape is then “gathered” or pulled up to the right width and hooked onto the glides of the rod or track. This treatment is versatile, working well with prints and plains and most different textures. The finish is casual and cosy, perfect for the lounge or bedroom. There are loose pencil pleats and tight pencil pleats, the more fullness the more wall stack you need.
French pleats are groups of triple pleats, spaced evenly along the curtain, which creates a formal heading, with the benefit of very neat stacking to the side.
This style is ideal for a formal dining room or can be used for practical reasons where there is not much wall space beside the window.
Similar to the French style but with double pleats, this treatment has the benefits of French pleating but creates a style which balances casual with traditional, perfect for any room setting. This style works equally well with prints, but is seen at its best with textured plains.
This style, also known as inverted pleating, creates a simple, modern look which also requires less fabric than some other styles. Flat on right side of drapery, deep inverted tailored pleats, which create a boxy look and add extra fullness.
Plain fabrics or those with textured weaves are complemented best by this treatment, which also stacks well when curtains are drawn back from the window. Very sleek look to them, they work very well in a modern decorating scheme.
The Goblet pleat heading is a unique style formal look that can be used in many different situations. The pleats look very much like a champagne flute. A circular form, 30mm in diameter and 100mm in length covered with fabric, then the flute is sewn together at the bottom and stuffing added to the formed flute to give it fullness.
Goblet pleats do not stack as tight as French pleats and should be reversed when stacked back and you should have more track overhang on the walls to accommodate the extra stacking of goblets to take them back off the window/door frames.
A very contempory look, Single pleats are similar to French/Dutch pleating but obviously only one single fold is pleated. Uses minimal amount of fabric and is tight stacking at the sides.
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