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Window Drapery • Drapery Fabric • Pinch-Pleated Window Drapery

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Drapery Fabric

Pinch-Pleat Drapery

Pinch-Pleated Window Drapery



Materials

  • Decorator fabric for draperies

  • Pleater tape to match style of heading

  • Pleater hooks

  • End pins

Cutting Directions

After pleating tape to correct size, cut pleater tape for each panel so that panels have pockets in the same position. Add 1/2" at each end of pleater tape for finishing.

Cut decorator fabric so width is the length of the pleater tape plus 4" to allow for 1" double-fold side hems. Seam fabric if necessary, allowing 1" for each seam. For length, cut fabric finished length, plus 6-1/2" to allow for 3" double-fold hem and 1/2" for turning under on upper edge.

Instructions

  1. Pre-pleat pleater tape to finished width of window drapery panel. Leave space unpleated at one end of tape for overlap and at other end for return.


  2. Position the pleater tape on installed traverse rod and adjust pleats if necessary. Fold ends under 1/2". Remove hooks. Cut drapery panels using pleater tape as guide.


  3. Turn under double-fold hem on lower edge and double-fold hems on sides; stitch. Mark 1/2" from upper edge on right side of drapery.


  4. Pin upper edge of pleater tape, pocket side up, along marked line so that pleater tape overlaps drapery 1/2". Stitch 1/4" from edge of pleater tape.


  5. Fold pleater tape to inside of drapery so it is even with finished upper edge of the window drapery; press. Stitch lower edge and both sides of tape, following guideline on tape, if marked.


  6. Insert hooks. Push prongs all the way up into pleats. Adjust folds between hooks.