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curtains

Home furnishings; Curtains

A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or water in the case of a shower curtain. Curtains hung over a ...

decotrack

Home furnishings; Curtains

A round metal rod with a concealed track at the rear. The curtain is attached to the plastic gliders that run along the track. Decotracks can be plain or reeded (grooved)

double track

Home furnishings; Curtains

A Double track consists of two rails, one behind the other. This allows you to have one curtain or one pair of curtains on the front rail and one curtain or one pair of curtains on the rear rail.

extra wide fabric

Home furnishings; Curtains

A fabric that is twice the width of usual curtaining fabric. This means that we need less fabric to make the curtains.

fire retardant (FR) fabric

Home furnishings; Curtains

A fabric that has been treated to reduce the possibility of becoming flammable to the naked flame (comes with a certificate of certification)

gliders

Home furnishings; Curtains

A glider is a plastic runner which sits inside the track. The hooks on your curtain hook in to these runners. Gliders allow you to pull your curtain across your window.

lining 1 pass

Home furnishings; Curtains

This is a fabric that has one layer of acrylic coating adhered to the base cloth. This protects your fabric from fading, reduces the light, and acts as an insulator.

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