Alendel Drapery Fabrics

This page is every opaque cloth Alendel lists for drapery or multipurpose use, 2993 colourways in 274 patterns. It runs from the 54 to 60 inch goods that make up like a classic drapery cloth, plains, prints on cotton, jacquards, embroideries, chenilles and velvets, to the wide-width plains at 118 inches and over that railroad across a wall of glass, and the decorative blackouts, cloths that block light on their own without a separate blackout lining. Alendel types each one, and the type filter below sorts the page by it.

What a drapery cloth does, it does closed: full privacy, and a light level that the lining decides. Light-filtering lining keeps a living room glowing, thermal or bump interlining adds body and quiet, blackout lining turns a bedroom dark, and a decorative blackout does the last job in the face cloth itself. The rest of the choice is in Alendel's numbers, laid out on every pattern page: the width, which decides seams and Roman shades, the repeat, which decides yardage, the care code, the fire listings, the weight the track has to carry and the stock flag.

Alendel prints the flame tests each colourway has passed, and on this page they matter in two directions. A residence needs none of them. A condo common area, a hotel, a restaurant or an office is asked for NFPA 701 on its drapery, and CAN/ULC S109 is the Canadian equivalent; the fire listing filter above finds the cloths that carry them, and where a project needs the certificate we request it from Alendel before the cloth is ordered. CAL 117, NFPA 260 and UFAC Class 1 are upholstery tests and FMVSS 302 is automotive; they show up on the multipurpose cloths because Alendel sells those for furniture as well, and they say nothing about drapery use either way.

The care code is the other line worth reading before the colour. WA-P, the commonest code on this page, means the cloth can be washed or dry cleaned; P means professional dry clean; S means dry clean or a solvent spot clean; W and WS are spot cleaning only, which is normal for a velvet or a chenille. A drapery is cleaned rarely, so the code matters less than it does on a sheer, but a kitchen Roman or a cloth at a door that gets handled is worth choosing with the code in mind. Alendel's own instruction line is on the pattern page beside the code.

Abrasion rubs and the pilling class are upholstery measures that Alendel lists on its multipurpose cloths. On a drapery they are not a selection criterion, but a high rub count on a cloth that will be handled every day at a door, or on a Roman shade that is raised and lowered, is worth having. Oeko-Tex is flagged per colourway and filtered above; country of origin is the mill's country as Alendel gives it.

An Alendel drapery cloth is made up the way our published drapery projects were: an FR blackout drapery on two bent motorized tracks closing around a master bedroom's angled windows in Boca Raton, stacking clear of the glass; pinch-pleat chenille and striped sheers hand-drawn on decorative rods over Central Park at Fasano Fifth Avenue; a master bedroom ripplefold in performance chenille under a custom wood valance at a golf course home in Boca Raton. Pinch pleat, Euro pleat, inverted and goblet pleats are hand-finished in our Fort Lauderdale workroom, ripplefold is set on snap tape at 80, 100 or 120 percent fullness, hems are weighted and every panel is lined or interlined. The pricing page has real figures for lined draperies on motorized tracks and for blackout draperies; a quote for a specific Alendel cloth follows from a measure.