Custom curtain making.

The sewing room Our in house workroom has, for the last thirty years, built a reputation for our expertise and quality of workmanship. Unlike the majority of curtain making workrooms, our machinists only handle and make voile curtains. This is essential for the type of work we are involved with.

We offer a professional, and yet prompt, trade curtain making service to retailers, interior designers and contract furnishers.

Types of headings and hems

Multipocket tape Pencil pleat heading - Various curtain tapes are offered. Imagine a row of pencil's all stacked together and you get an idea of the finished look, usually about 7.5cm (3") deep. See below for more details.

Slot heading - A simple tunnel effect for threading on to a wire or rod, usually about, 3cm sewn with a small heading of about 2cm. When gathered the heading creates a frill effect above the slot.

To ensure that a voile curtain hangs properly, a weight is usually required at the bottom.

We offer two types of base hems, double and leadweight.

Double hem - This is simply a turnover of material at the bottom of a curtain, usually for drops up to about 300cm a 10cm double hem is sufficient.

Lead hem - A string, of 25gm lead weight, neatly sewn along the very bottom of the curtain.

 Rufflette pencil pleat tapes available

Crystal Regis Tervoil Jubilee Net Pleat

Below is a guide to the stand up space above the hook on each tape.

When ordering curtains to be made, we need to know the position of the tape. So for example if your curtain needs a stand up

of say 15mm above Tervoil tape you would put your hook in the top pocket and we would sew the tape down 8mm (7 + 8 = 15).

Rufflette tape	Rufflette hook	Pocket	Stand up above hook
Tervoil	R40	Top	7mm
65mm deep - Two pockets	?	Bottom	30mm
3 Pocket	R40	Top	4mm
76mm deep - Three pockets	"	Middle	23mm
.	.	Bottom	42mm
Net Pleat (Translucent)	R5	Top	0mm
50mm deep - Two pockets	~	Bottom	27mm
Standard	R5	One pocket	2mm
28mm deep - One pocket	/	/