If the lower or side edges of the curtains are bend, it will significantly spoil their appearance. Utazeliters for curtains will help get rid of this problem, without resorting to a constant and often useless ironing and sweeping. Special weights are used when sewing Japanese, Roman, Hungarian curtains, as well as a porter of heavy fabrics. What are the varieties of weighting agents? Is it possible to make them at home?
Cords and plates as weightlifiers
Elements in the form of plates and cords are installed on the lower boundary of the web and ideally take the shape of the curtains. The cords are great for use on lungs and thin tissues. In the store you can meet these details weighing from 15 to 150. Thanks to this big run, it is easy to choose a cord that is optimally suitable for a curtain from any material.
Sometimes the form changes only the corners of the curtain. In this case, save the material from deformation will help special plates. Included with them, the mounting buttons usually go, with the help of which the weighting agent is easily fixed in the poda of the web. They also differ in weight, so fit almost for any curtains.
If you want to make a cradle with your own hands, you can use thin metal pins from an old shelf or wooden slats that are sold in construction stores. However, when staving the lower part of the curtains in this case will have to make an additional indent. If you are using a wooden rail, the indent must be equal to its width plus 2.5 cm. If the metal pin is a machine line to do 0.5 cm from it.
Weights in the form of weights
Loads that are sold in specialized departments can be two types: an elongated conical shape and a round shape with holes. They are provided for fixing the curtains in side socodes. If the grounds are not provided, the loads are sewn using a special tape.
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In an old weight, weightless weights replaced with coins. So you can do when the modern curtains are made. Instead of coins, other round or flat metal objects are suitable. They will not be visible, so you can use anything as a cargo. However, before fixing metal items, it is desirable to cover with a cloth.
Cargoes have weight limitations that need to be considered when using different types of fabric. For lightweight materials and tulle, loads can be used weighing from 12 to 22 g. For medium density tissues, such as linen, optimal weights weighing 23-50 g. For the porter from heavy materials - from 51 g.
How to spend yourself weightlifiers?
There are situations when it is difficult to find the necessary type of cargo or lacking funds for its purchase. How to enter in this case? After preparing the necessary materials and armed with a step-by-step instruction, it is easy to make curtains with a weightlifier with your own hands.
For work it will be necessary:
- curtain;
- material under the color of the curtains;
- Weight: Wire, Wooden Rake, Chain, Metal Balls or Coins;
- iron;
- sewing machine;
- pins;
- threads under the color of the curtains;
- scissors;
- Santimeter tape or roulette.
Prepare improvised weighting. If it is necessary for tulle or light curtain, take a thin wire. For the curtains from more dense fabric, a weight loss is suitable in the form of a chain or several coins. Attach these items to the curtains in different ways.
Method 1
- In the slot from the lightweight material, the weighting agent must be sewed on the sides. To do this, take 2 flat or volumetric metal parts. Every weight should not exceed 22 grams.
- Sustrate for each small pockets from the fabric, disguising thus tightly.
- From the Initial side of the lower pent of the curtain on the side, do a small incision, retreating from Niza 5 cm. If there is no lower poda, use a special curtain tape.
- Carefully put pockets with a load in the resulting hole and the trigger.
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Method 2
- Wealers for the porter from dense tissues can be placed in "pockets". As loads take ordinary coins.
- From the wrong side of the lower edge of the curtains, the curtains are pulled out small "pockets".
- In each to put on the coin.
- Close the pockets, sewing a curtain tape on top of them. Stretch the fabric so that the weights remain in their places, even if the curtain turns out to be in an inverted position.
If the cloth curtains are transparent, the previous ways will not fit, as the weighting agent will always shine. It is possible to straighten the bottom of such a curtain without additional parts. To do this, its lower part should be doubled by 10 cm, try and strain it manually or on a sewing machine. If the fabric is opaque and dense, for a better effect when processing the lower edge, you need to insert a chain or a piece of wire.
Weights are the necessary parts that provide additional load on the lower or side edge of the curtains. They allow you to hold and maintain the desired shape of the curtain, as well as paint the folds. Inserting suitable cargo can be ordered from a specialist or deny yourself. This item is optional to acquire in the store: manifesting a fantasy, a variety of remedies can be used as a weighting agent.