Different types of curtains whose panels need to be moved on the eaves require an additional place for this. Curtains raised by pickups close up to 50% window opening, limiting the amount of light penetrating into the room. Transparent curtains can not create protection against strangers. How to be in the case when it is required and tightly close the window, and ensure the maximum amount of light, without taking into cumbersome curtains space around the window opening?
Mounting scheme roll curtains.
One of the successful solutions of this problem can be rolled curtains: when they open, they are neatly folded curtains located on the upper border of the window and does not prevent the penetration of light. At the same time, the place occupied by her relatively small. The cloth-striking cloth curtains almost does not collect dust and is not dirty, unlike curtains forming folds, and the closed roller is closed only by the opening of the window. The convenience of rolled curtains is indisputable, but high prices make them not the most common option for designing windows. This problem can also be solved if you make rollers with your own hands.
How to make rolled curtains yourself?
Assembling scheme Roll curtains from reed.
The roles of the role of manufacturers with their own hands has the following ways: with the shaft for winding the fabric located at the top of the window, and with a roller placed on the bottom edge of the curtain. Before making a role, you will need to get the materials for their manufacture and prepare the necessary tools for work:
- cloth for the cloth curtains;
- sewing machine;
- measuring instruments;
- scissors;
- Bilateral Scotch, Velcro;
- Ready kit for rolled rolled mechanism;
- bar or metal tube for weighting agent;
- stapler furniture and brackets;
- Ribbons or cord.
The cloth for the cloth curtains is better to try to pick up with a two-sided pattern, dense and durable, but not heavy.
Before sewing it is better decaded or wrap, to further avoid shrinkage. The width of the fabric is better to select in accordance with the width of the window opening to avoid unnecessary seams that can interfere with the curtains folding into a roll. The number of fabrics for the rolled carriers is simple: it will be equal to the height of the window opening with the addition of 30 cm for processing, the width is selected in accordance with width of opening. If the pattern is one-sided, you will need to take fabrics in the amount of 2 hours of opening. The width will require add 2-3 cm on the seams.
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Rolled curtain on the finished mechanism
Figure 1. Roll curtain on the finished mechanism.The set for the manufacture of the curtains includes a shaft for winding fabric, fastening and mechanism with a cord or chain. The plastic shaft before installing should be shortened according to the windows width and secure the cloth the curtains that must be specifically prepared for this.
- For ease of closing and good tension of the curtain on the bottom edge of the panels make special pockets into which the rod or wand for weighting is inserted. On the curtain, stitched from duplex fabric, it will be necessary to simply adjust the bottom edge to the side facing the window and firm it in the width of the panel. The value of the poda depends on the thickness of the weighting agent and is determined individually. When sewing curtains from a tissue with one-sided pattern, the cargo may be placed inside the two-layer panels.
- To adjust and squeeze the upper slice of the curtains of the curtains per 1 cm. On the edge of the folds, one of the elements of the velcro, the 2nd line lay along its lower edge. Another velcro element is fixed on the shaft (roller) from the rollers kit over a line or a groove with a bilateral tape (Fig. 1).
- According to the instructions attached to the set, mount the brackets or other fasteners of the rolled roller, install the mechanism. Attach the cloth curtains to the shaft and roll it. Strengthen the shaft into a regular place and lay down several times and raise the cloth so that it stretches well.
How to make a roller with the bottom line of the shaft?
Figure 2. Rolled curtains do it yourself.
The tissue with a double-sided pattern is processed, bending cuts (upper and side, if necessary). At the bottom edge, a pocket for a weighting agent is formed, which in this option will serve and the shaft for rolling the curtains. To do this, you can pick up a piece of cornice for curtains with beautiful tips so that they serve as an additional decor for the curtain (Fig. 2).
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If the tissue has a drawing only on the one hand, the speed will have to make two layers of the fabric so that both the face and the starve look aesthetic:
- Fold the material with the front sides (pattern) inside and stack the sides, without stitching the top of the receiving bag. Remove the workpiece on the face. The bottom of the curtains can be adjusted, laying the shaft with protruding ends, as described above, or put the tube or bar inside the bag.
- The upper edge can be adjusted inside and slid by 1 mm from the edge, to sew a manually secret seam or to treat it with a seam embet around the hole so that you can remove the shaft from the inside if necessary.
- On the bar, which will keep the entire design, to attach one element of the velcro to the stapler. A responding part to shoot at the top of the future curtain, attach a cloth to the bar and wrap it with a cloth. Locate the tapes or cords with a length of two curtain lengths with the addition of 15-20 cm for free ends as shown in Fig. 3. Strengthen the bar on the brackets.
Figure 3. Rate arrangement scheme.
If the roller is not planned to be removed too often, the cloth is attached to the stapler to the bar, hang tapes and the bar are hard fixed in the opening of the windows on the screws.
Raise and ride on the shaft such a speed will have to manually. At the desired height, the raised curtain is fixed with the tied ribbons.
Measuring the rollers made by hand, it is possible:
- on the front side of the panel at the top to sew decorative rings or loops;
- On the wrong one at the top, fasten the ends of the cords or tapes;
- Other ends omit, bend the bottom edge of the curtains, skip, without pulling, in the rings at the top of the web;
- Free ends of cords to connect.
To turn the curtains, you need to pull the connected ends of the cords, while the cloth is folded and rises to the desired height. The cord is fixed on the hook, reinforced next to the window. The length of the cord should be slightly larger than 2 lengths of a fully expanded clove of the curtain.
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It is possible to decorate the rolled curtains by placing the appliqués from the fabric by performing embroidery or separating the edge with a beautiful braid. An additional decoration tool serve as ribbons or cords where you can make brushes or decorate the ends of the suspension. It is important to remember at the same time that the elements of the decor should not interfere with the canvas frequently roll and unfold.