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Full drapes and lined curtains in Newcastle
A lined drape is the working end of the curtain trade: the one that makes a bedroom dark at six on a January morning, keeps a draughty room warmer in July, and gives a living room its evening weight.
The heading sets the character
Three headings, three different drapes
Same fabric, different fold at the top, and you get a different curtain. This is the choice we spend the most time on at a measure.
Pinch pleat
Triple folds stitched at the base, falling in tailored columns. The dressmaker's heading: structured, generous with fabric, at home in heritage rooms and formal living areas.
See the foldPencil pleat
Fine, even gathers on tape. The quiet classic that suits nearly every room and budget of fabric, and pairs happily with a pelmet.
See the foldEyelet
Metal rings punched through the heading, threaded on a rod. Deep, relaxed folds with an easy swing. The contemporary choice where the rod is part of the look.
See the foldLinings, in plain words
The lining is where the performance lives
The face fabric gives a drape its look; the lining gives it its job.
- Blockout lining stops light. Full stop. For it to work the curtain needs a measured overlap at the centre and returns at the ends, otherwise daylight knifes down the edges and undoes the fabric's good work.
- Thermal lining slows heat moving through the window in both directions. The Australian Government's YourHome guidance on windows is blunt about this: close-fitting, floor-length lined curtains, sealed at the top, cut window heat loss substantially. A pelmet is what does the sealing.
- Standard lining protects the face fabric from sun, adds body to the fall, and keeps a natural cloth from reading see-through at night.
Made means made
The details you feel more than see
A made-to-measure drape carries a dozen quiet decisions: the drop measured to the millimetre so the hem just kisses the floor (or puddles, if that is the brief), double hems weighted so the fall sets straight, pattern matched across widths, fullness set to the heading rather than a one-size ratio.
None of it shouts. All of it is the difference between a curtain that hangs and a curtain that falls. The guide to how curtains should fall shows each decision with the reasons.
In children's rooms we spec cord-free operation as standard practice, in line with the national window-covering safety standard, and any corded track is fitted and labelled the way that standard requires.
Dark when you want dark, warm when you need warm, and it still has to look like it belongs in the room.
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