From the entire variety of curtains, French deserve special attention. The unsurpassed luxury of wave-like folds will add luxury and sophistication to any room. Of course, in the manufacture of such splendor to order, the price will be quite high, but you can always sew marquis with your own hands - the curtains will not be worse.

General view of French curtains

The history of the occurrence of Curtain Marquis is associated with the period of the board of Louis XIV. It was in those days that the ballroom windows and guest rooms at the Palaces of France began to decorated with curtains made from natural silk, which are highly abundant lace and shallow horizontal folds resembling waves, emphasized the solemnity and wealth of interior decoration.

Currently, Marquis (it is the French curtain) is an elegant, drop-down element of the interior, which includes:

• the fabric represented by Muslin, Atlas, Silk, Batist, Moir, Organza, etc. The main characteristic of the tissue selected for the sewing of the French curtains is elasticity that promotes the creation of soft folds;
• a textile braid consisting of a curtain tape for attaching to the eaves and tapes, with which the assembly is formed on the curtain;
• various decorative elements - fringe, beads, laces, fixed along the lower edge of the curtains for decoration.

Quite often, French marquise curtains are confused with Austrian, as both types have horizontal folds. However, the Austrian curtains the assembly takes only the third part of the curtains and is located in its lower part, and the French assembly is present along the entire length.

The functionality of the marquise curtains is largely dependent on:

• fabrics. Curtains made of light transparent material will not hide the room from the ray of the scorching either the rising sun, but will serve an excellent obstacle from the envious peeping neighbors of the neighbors standing opposite the house. But the curtains from the atlas, velvet and other opaque tissues will easily cope with the function of the porter;

• cornise. The curtain mount can be carried out on the rail cornice, but it will be impossible to raise them upward. When using the eaves with the presence of a manual or remote control, the curtain height during operation can be adjusted by limiting or increasing the degree of illumination of the room.

Marquis curtains wonderfully look in a single design, and in combination with the porters, lambrene, thereby contributing to their use when making the interior of any style.

Curtains of Marquis in the interior

Relatively recently, the Curtains of Marquis became popular only when decorating window openings in museums, exhibition, concert halls. Today, French curtains are decorated with windows in multi-storey, country houses, offices, public institutions.

The appearance of the Curtain Marquis, the photo of which is presented below, is ideally combined with any interior, be it classicism, art deco, modern, high-tech or avant-garde.

Air folds from organza will add a living room of some luxury, idleness, while at the same time filling the room with sufficient light and comfort.

Romance, ease and peace are waiting for hosts in the bedroom, the windows of which are decorated with light French curtains in combination with densitors of dense fabric.

The shortened models of the marquise curtains for the kitchen will be simply indispensable, since only the middle of the windows or to the windowsill reach, leaving the bottom of the wall open, which can be used as part of the kitchen.

The French curtains and in the bathroom, filling the room with the necessary sunshine and hiding at the same time from prying eyes.

Originity Curtain Marquis will scratch the gray everyday life of office life, filling out the room with warmth and comfort.

French curtains made of snow-white atlas, easily emphasize the respectability and significance of the working office of the president itself.

Thus, French curtains will contribute a unique color, as well as a particle of pomp and grace in the design of any room. The main thing is to properly approach the choice of material, high quality cut the fabric and sew all parts into a single composition.

French curtain manufacturing technology

Before you know how to sew marquise curtains, you need to get acquainted with the choice of fabric and its metro station.

Calculation and choice of fabric

Despite the diversity of the types of fabric, which can be used in the manufacture of French curtains, most of the marquis is still performed from lightweight materials such as silk, capron, organza. In most cases, this is due to the fact that marquise curtains are used in conjunction with heavy porters instead of classical Tulle variants. At the same time, the final choice on one or another material depends on the personal preferences of the owner and the overall design design.

However, before purchasing any type of fabric, it is necessary to carefully calculate the necessary member of the most likely canvase. For this:

1. Measure the length of the cornice intended for fastening the curtains, and multiply the resulting value to the assembly coefficient, which is:

• for silk fabrics - 2.5 m;
• for Capron - 2.2 m;
• for organza - 1.8 m.

2. Measure the height of the curtains, ranging from the eaves and ending with the level of desired length, and again multiply on the assembly indicator, which is somewhat different from previous data, making it up:

• for silk fabrics - 2 m;
• for Capron - 2.5 m;
• for organza -3 m.

3. If the dimensions of the required canvase exceed the roll width, then before the direct manufacture of the curtains, the tissue cuts will need to be sehered. In this case, the connecting seam should be placed along the terminal line of the braid. To do this, it is necessary to calculate the width of the step between the festons and their number, focusing on the following tabular data:

4. It remains to add to the obtained points of the allowance for the bending of the upper, lower and lateral sections and can be purchased material.

Thus, the calculation of the required size of the canvas for the manufacture of the curtains of the marquise is a rather time-consuming occupation that requires increased attention to the accounting of the appropriate tissue of the assembly coefficients. The slightest mismatch of the canvas with the necessary dimensions will lead to the displacement of the side seams towards the central assembly, disturbing the whole aesthetics of the magnificent decor.

Preparation of material

Before you start cutting curtains, the purchased cloth must be decisive:

• the dense canvas is soaked for 15 minutes in a slight warm water, after which it is slightly pressed, he dried well and strokes;
• too volumetric canvases are thoroughly flying with steam function;
• a thin fabric like an organza is simply stroked without being processed by steam.

The decatting stage, like all other stages of creating French curtains, is very important, since all the actions of the decatation are aimed at protecting the finished product from a possible shrinkage of the material after the first washing.

Cutting material

To avoid distortion when marking and subsequent, strollers must prepare a working surface in advance, removing all unnecessary items, after which you can start working, the essence of which is as follows:

1. Unlock and straighten the facial faces on the desktop.
2. Mount the edges of the canvas.
3. Single the length of the curtains, taking into account the allowances for the bending of the vertex (5 cm) and the bottom (4 cm) of the product.
4. We look at the cutting of the side seam processing 3-4 cm.
5. From the side of the side of the lateral seam, we postpone the width of the fold and in the outlined place stretch the thread from the tissue along the entire length. The path received from the removal of the thread will be a middle braid. Such manipulation reduces marking time and ensures the evenness of the guide along the entire height of the curtains.
6. Similarly, we make the markup of other folds across the entire width of the canvas.
7. From the line of the last guide, we mark the allowance on the second side seam if the width of the curtains corresponds to the width of the fabric or the allowance (1 cm) for the heating of the canvas, if the width of the canvas is less than the width of the future curtain.
8. Strip the blind after all markings.

When using two sections of the fabric, the markup on the second canvase is made similarly to the first.

Curtain sewing process

After all preparatory work, you can safely go to the last stage of manufacturing curtains:

1. Step tissue cuts into a single canvas. The obtained seams are irrigated with an inside in different directions. At the same time, the edges do not need to additionally process the zigzag-like seam, since the entire battery will close in the subsequent braid.

2. Cut, we flash and irrigate lateral seams.

3. On the top slice of the fabric we plan and drain the molding, the main purpose of which is to prevent the deviation of the finished curtains to the middle of the window. The size of the extracts is calculated as follows:

• calculate the excess fabric \u003d the length of the cornice x assembly coefficient in the width - length of the eaves;
• calculate the depth of the damp \u003d excess fabrics / number of assembly steps (festoons);
• since the extractor is deposited on the material in both directions from the guide, the depth of the damp must be divided into 2;
• the length of the wrappers (20-40 cm) is interconnected with a length of the curtain: the shorter the canvas, the shorter there will be a wrap.

4. Finished wretches start in one direction.

5. We feed the braid to obtain assemblies, starting with the bottom of the curtains, retreating from the edge to the transmission distance for the material bending. The ends of the ropes on top and bottom of the attributed braid must be associated with each other.

6. When all the ribbons are sewn, the bottom seam bent is performed, by means of which all open sections of braids will be closed.

7. Hand up the upper cut of the curtains and add the curtain tape.

8. We are revealed again all the seams and the canvas itself curtains.

9. Pulling the ropes on top of the curtain ribbon, sailing the cloth to the required sizes. The length of the elongated threads should be gently hideing in the scene of the tape, because when washing it is necessary to straighten the canvas again.

The finished chart remains only to fix on the cornily and enjoy its extraordinary beauty.

Despite the many nuances that need to be taken into account in the manufacture of Marquis, tailoring curtains will not take much time, although for the sake of such beauty it is absolutely not a pity to spend all weekends and holidays.