MORE ON AUSTRIAN BLINDS

Austrian Blinds are in reality a curtain, and are made up as such with a fullness of twice the track or batten width. The Austrian blind is then like a blind too in the way that it is controlled by means of cords hanging at the back of the curtain. They go up and down rather than across and because of this may not be suitable for long wide windows.

See how Austrian Blinds hang. They hang in extraordinary symmetry and the hang is essential. The batten is the centre horizontal line. The blind is pulled up from the bottom ; See the fullness in the Austrian Blind too which manifests itself in the rich scalloped fabric at the bottom.

When you make curtains, you add a top hem and a bottom hem and here you add 20inches too to the length of the fabric i.e. length from batten to drop of curtain.

See how the Austrian blind looks! Do you want the batten to be seen, do you want a kind of showiness to your window? Then Austrian blinds may be suitable.

However the batten itself doesn’t have to be seen and most times isn’t; What is apparent is the showiness of the fabric; a fabric with color, and attractive design is suitable as well as a fabric with drape; What is important for the Austrian blind is the scallops too that are created ; It is the scallops which make the Austrian blind stand out; Austrian Blinds are more than just a blind and more than just a curtain ; It is the scallops and you can call them scalloped curtains; And it is interesting that this scalloped look is only really apparent in the Austrian blind.