Won the market for functional glass windows framed by PVC or wood, made adjustments to the style of window design: minimalism and practicality are welcome. The combination of simplicity and artistic diversity made rolled curtains with a universal product, successfully used in luxury living houses of rich houses, on average kitchen or standard office. The functionality of the blinds is combined in them with elegacity of textiles.
Bright rolled curtains
Features of the design of rolled curtains
Other names are rolled blinds, rolled rolling curtains (from English Roll - roll, roller, cylinder). The whole segment of the fabric turns into a roll using the mechanisms that are used in the blinds of the structures. Depending on the folding method, several types are distinguished:
- Plears (gather "harmonic");
- Roman (folded by flocks);
- Rollers (wound with a roll on the tube).
Make and hang rolled curtains with your own hands. Such designs
- The window and nearby space are not closed;
- Easily rise and descend, protecting the room from sunlight or curious eyes;
- They remain clean longer;
- They just take off, wash and remove when they are not needed;
- For their manufacture use any fabric you like;
- The curtains rolled on the window can be used as an independent view of the decor and in combination with other porters or tulle.
How to make rolled blinds yourself
Depending on where the rollers are attached - on the wall or on the window, it is supposed to use the cornice or not - the mechanism for rolled curtains will be different. Ribbons, cords, fishing ribbons or ropes are used to raise them. The simplest view rises manually and fixed with ribbons in a certain position. In a more complex design, the cord system is used: when they are moved down, the canvas moves up, winding on the strip-weighting agent.
You can make rolled blinds from any kind of fabric, but better from dense, for example, flax or curtain fabric. In industrial scales, natural, synthetic, semi-synthetic fabrics impregnated with dust-repellent and antibacterial compositions are used. If possible, you can buy such a tissue.
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Flax rolled curtains
Used for sewing roll Curtains Material:
For web: Fabric - 2 cuts (for facial and irons). An injaliated side can be made from a denser type of fabric.
For garters: tapes or tissue residues.
Lower weight: Wooden rail or metal tube size, slightly smaller than the width of the curtain.
Top bearing plank: wooden bar cross section 20 - 25 mm.
For fastening: Stapler with brackets, screwdriver, self-tapping screws.
For sewing: sewing machine, thread.
Making a role is made up of a little time. The simplest design (lifting manually and fixed with decorative strings) is sewn and mounted in 2 hours.
- Measure the window, calculate the size of the tissue canvase, cut out, cut blanks. The length of the product is equal to the height of the window plus 150 mm to the reserve and 2 cm allowance for the seams. The width of the curtains is calculated by the width of the window plus 1 cm allowance on each side.
- Sew the cloth of two pieces of fabric, folding 2 cuts with the front sides and stepped up with an involve from three sides (it turns out the "bag"). Remove on the front side, pasted.
- Snap from the bottom of the weighting agent - the rail is intended for this to fit inside, strain the compartment for it. You can simply bend the bottom edge, set up, in the resulting pockets insert a bar.
- Fasten the cloth to the carrier bar - wrap the top edge around it, fix the brackets using a stapler.
- Hit the garters - ready-made ribbons or strips of fabric to transfer through the top edge, securing the brackets. The ends of the ribbons must be a few centimeters longer than the curtain, hang freely - when lifting the canvas, they are tied with a bow.
- Hang the design on the window, attaching the top plank to the wall of screws.
These rolled curtains are suitable on plastic windows, as they are mounted on the wall, without disturbing the integrity of the window frame.
Council. The top bar can be reapped with braid, lambrene or in another way. For garter tape, it is not necessary to use the same fabric - you can contrast or with another pattern. In this case, rolled blinds will perform not only utilitarian functions, but also decorate the interior.
You can make curtains that use a rope lifting mechanism. For this design you need a cornice. Additionally, you will need to purchase
- 2 cutting rope: the length of one is equal to the three lengths of the curtains, the length of the second is three lengths plus the width of the curtains;
- 2 plastic rings, 2 hooks with threads for screwing in the window frame.
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The canvas curtains sews in the same way, the insert of the rings and ropes is added.
- Brackets for the eaves are hung over the window. In the frame frame at the top of the opposite corners, 2 hooks screwed to which the rope will be tied.
- It is sewn to the cloth, pockets are made from below (for a weighting agent) and at the top (for the cornice bar).
- With the front of the fabric, the rings are sewn at the top of the corners.
- They put on the canvas on the carnis bar (they are injected into the top pocket), limit the tips, hang the bar with the curtain to the cornice brackets.
- In the lower pocket of the hanging curtains insert a weight loss - a metal or wooden rail.
- 2 ropes are invested in the design. The first (short, the length of which is equal to the three lengths of the curtains) is tied to the hook, lowered to a weighting agent, cling to it, raise the rope to the ring, ingested in it and hang freely on the same hook.
- With the second rope (long - three lengths and the width of the curtain), they do the same since the opposite corner: the hook - the weighting agent - the ring. They do through the ring, stretch across the canvas and are invested in the opposite ring. Free end is combined with the first rope.
- Test the mechanism of raising Roller: pulling for the ropes, the weight lifter rises, and the curtains hits it.
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Any rolled mechanism can be made with your own hands in one evening - the process will enjoy, will allow you to often change the decor of the window and diversify the interior.