Fabric Blinds

Window blinds are coverings for windows, which generally attached to the interior side of the windows.

There are two main groups of blinds, slat blinds and solid blinds and each group contain several types of blinds. Let's first look at slat blinds.

Slat blinds are made of many horizontal or vertical, flat slats, which are usually metal, vinyl, or wood and are connected with string in such a way that the blinds can be rotated open or closed to allow as much or as little light to enter a room. To rotate open the blinds, simple twist the connector that is attached to the strings, or if the blinds are operated on a pulley system, simple pull the cord. The raising and lowering of the blinds is achieved by pulling a separate cord. Slat blinds include: Venetian blinds, which were introduced around 1770. They are basic slatted blind made of metal or plastic, or wood. However, wooden slats are usually referred to as wood blinds and not Venetian blinds. Mini blinds are Venetian blinds with
slats that are usually 1? wide, micro mini blinds are usually ½ inch wide.

Vertical blinds are slate blinds, which have increased in popularity in the past few years. Some times these will be referred to as track blinds. They are made up of vertical slats of a stiffened fabric, plastic, or metal, which are hung by one end from a track. Like horizontal blinds, the slates of vertical blinds can be rotated a full 90 degrees to permit as much or as little light into the room, or the blinds can be fold up to one side of the door or window to allow a full view of the outdoors.

The next group is the Solid blinds. They can either roll up or fold up but cannot be opened in place to allow light into a room. Solid blinds, which are also referred to as window shades include: Holland blinds also known as roller shades that are
pull-down rolling window blinds.

Decorative woven-wood blinds are slats of wood, bamboo, or other natural material, which has been woven together to make an almost perfectly solid blind. Woven-wood blinds can be roll up out to allow as much or as little light and view or rolled down to block all the light and view from the outside.

Pleated shades are pleated fabric blinds, which when are pull up, the folds of fabric sits flat at the top of a window. Honeycomb shades, or cellular shades are very similar to pleated shades in how they operate. The difference is that these shades are constructed of two or more layers of fabric, which are joined at the pleats to form honeycomb shaped compartments, which trap air and provide insulation against
the cold.

Roman shades are constructed of fabric or woven wood and are raised and lowered by having each section of the shade fold behind a higher section of the blind.

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