Crestron SheerWeave 2500 Fabric
11 colourways, basketweave, openness 1%, Crestron Tier 2. Every swatch and every figure Crestron publishes, from the Crestron-certified team in Fort Lauderdale that specifies and installs Crestron shades from Miami to Palm Beach.
The 1% weave for west glass, screens and the hardest afternoon sunTier 2
SheerWeave 2500 is the tight end of the Phifer family, a 1% basketweave for the glass that gets the sun straight on: west and south-west walls, an office with monitors, a family room with the television opposite the slider. Crestron's guide lists it at 37% fiberglass and 63% vinyl, one composition where 2360, 2390 and 2410 carry two, and puts its visible transmittance at 1% to 14%. At the low end that is a room gone soft, with almost nothing coming through the weave; at the high end it is a pale shade that still glows. It remains a solar screen all the same: the view is there, dimmed, and the cloth is not a light-filtering fabric.
The card is the family's eleven names, and at 1% the charcoals do something the rest of the page cannot. Charcoal and Charcoal/Chestnut each transmit 1% of the solar energy that reaches them and Charcoal/Grey 2%; Pearl Gray transmits 3% and reflects 32%, Beige/Pearl Gray 5% and 42%. The pale end stays bright: Oyster transmits 15% and reflects 68%, Brilliant/White 15% and 72%. So the weave and the colour pull in the same direction here, and a Charcoal 2500 is the darkest daytime shade in the Phifer card that is still a screen you see through. The mill's data is on our Phifer SheerWeave 2500 series page.
Woven by Phifer; the mill's full data is on our Phifer SheerWeave 2500 series page.
What SheerWeave 2500 does on your glass, and what it does not
Best use
West and south-west glass first: the family room whose slider takes the sun from two o'clock until it sets, the home office with two monitors, a media room used in daylight, a condo bedroom on the west corner. Charcoal/Grey or Charcoal/Chestnut when a screen is in the room; Oyster/Pearl Grey or Beige when the room is pale and the client will not have a dark shade. Everywhere else on the floor, 2410.
Privacy
More daytime cover than any other weave in the family: the weave is tight and the pale colourways bounce daylight back; a Charcoal, the clearest to look out through, is the easiest to look in through from a balcony against the glass. After dark none of it holds: a lamp inside turns any 1% screen into a lit window. For night privacy, a dual roller with a blackout or light-filtering layer behind.
Glare control
The glare fabric of the family. At the dark end of the card almost nothing comes through, the room goes soft and a screen facing the glass stays legible; even the pale end lets through less than 2410 does. Charcoal/Alpaca, at 1% of solar energy transmitted with 16% reflected, is the charcoal we suggest when heat at the glass is also a concern. Only a low sun square in the window defeats it.
Limitations
It darkens no room and is not a privacy fabric, whatever the colour. Charcoal holds 95% of the solar energy at the glass and Charcoal/Grey 90%, which a west window feels by late afternoon; a pale colourway sends most of it back out but glows. Wider than the roll, the shade railroads, with a seam above that height. Above all it is a screen: for sleep or a projector, a blackout behind.
SheerWeave 2500 colourways
11 colours. Openness 1%; up to 124 in wide; Crestron Tier 2; can be railroaded; fire retardant; woven by Phifer.
Composition, ratings, certifications, hembar options and cleaning are from Crestron's Fabric Information Guide, revision 3.23.26.
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Every SheerWeave 2500 colourway, with Crestron's published figures
Ts = solar energy transmitted, Rs = solar energy reflected, As = solar energy absorbed and Tv = visible light transmitted, in percent, as Crestron publishes them in its fabric shop and its Fabric Information Guide (revision 3.23.26) for each colourway; Ts, Rs and As add up to 100. Openness is Crestron's figure; width is the usable roll width. We bring samples of the colours you shortlist to the consultation.
What a Crestron shade in SheerWeave 2500 costs
Crestron places this fabric in price Tier 2. Its budgetary guide of June 2022 lists a motorized 5 Series roller shade in a Tier 2 fabric at $1,000 for 3 ft x 5 ft, $1,300 for 5 ft x 10 ft and $1,600 for 10 ft x 10 ft, MSRP, motor included, before options, control, wiring and installation.
| Shade size | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 |
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| 3 ft wide x 5 ft high | $900 | $1,000 | $1,200 | $1,400 |
| 5 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,100 | $1,300 | $1,600 | $2,200 |
| 10 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,400 | $1,600 | $2,000 | $3,200 |
Options in the same guide: fascia $20 per ft; top and back cover $20 per ft; pocket $50 per ft; dual shade (two fabrics, one bracket) double the single-shade figure. The guide names example fabrics per tier: Tier 1: Bella, Mika, Merinda, Nava; Tier 2: E Screen, SheerWeave 2500, 2700 and 7500, Perla, Dilanna; Tier 3: SheerWeave 7000, Rachel, Nohea, Cosima; Tier 4: Flocke, Vizela, Harika; a few have changed tier since, and every fabric page gives the tier the Crestron fabric shop lists today. The guide excludes control processors, keypads, interfaces, wiring, power supplies, programming and installation. Source (PDF).
Figures are Crestron's own budgetary MSRP guide of June 2022 for one motorized 5 Series roller shade, motor included, before options. They exclude the control system, wiring, power, programming and installation, and Crestron may have changed them since. We quote every project at the measure.
Where SheerWeave 2500 works here
West glass is where 2500 earns its place: a west-facing family room in Fort Lauderdale, the office corner of a Miami Beach condo that takes the sun all afternoon, a south-west bedroom in Boca Raton used by day. We specify Charcoal or Charcoal/Grey when the room has a screen in it, and keep the rest of the floor in the same name at 2410. Behind a 2500 in a bedroom goes a blackout on a dual roller, because a 1% weave, however dark, is still a window at night.
SheerWeave 2500 is the 1% end of the Phifer card that 2410, 2390 and 2360 open to 3%, 5% and 10%; SheerWeave 2701 is the dual-sided twill at the same 1%, and E Screen and Esprit are the other Heritage basketweaves Crestron stocks at 1%.
SheerWeave 2500: frequently asked
Is a 1% weave a light-filtering fabric?
No. Crestron files 2500 with its basketweaves, the fabrics you see objects through, and describes light-filtering fabrics as the ones that show the outside as silhouettes and shadows. At 1% the view through 2500 is there, dimmed, in every colourway, and a lit room shows through it at night. If silhouettes are what the room needs, a bathroom or a street-level bedroom, start on the light-filtering page and pair that fabric with a screen if the daytime view matters.
How much darker is 2500 than 2410 in the same colour?
Noticeably in the charcoals, less in the pale colourways. Charcoal goes from 3% of solar energy transmitted in SheerWeave 2410 to 1% here; Oyster from 17% to 15%, Brilliant/White from 18% to 15%. Visible transmittance runs 3% to 17% on 2410 and 1% to 14% here. In practice a dark 2500 keeps a television watchable at four in the afternoon on a west wall, and a pale 2500 takes the edge off without changing the brightness of the room much.
SheerWeave 2500 or 2701 at 1%?
Two Phifer weaves at 1%, both 124 inches and Tier 2. SheerWeave 2701 is the dual-sided twill: the same face on both sides, a Charcoal and Oyster card, all four Crestron hembars. 2500 is the basketweave with Beige, Brilliant/White and Pearl Gray as well, on the Open Pocket, Sealed Pocket and Exposed Blackout hembars, and its charcoals transmit 1% to 2% of the solar energy against 3% to 4% for the 2701 charcoals. For the hardest west glass, 2500; where the roll is exposed, 2701.
What does a Crestron shade in SheerWeave 2500 cost?
Crestron places this fabric in price Tier 2. Its budgetary guide of June 2022 lists a motorized 5 Series roller shade in a Tier 2 fabric at $1,000 for 3 ft x 5 ft, $1,300 for 5 ft x 10 ft and $1,600 for 10 ft x 10 ft, MSRP, motor included, before options, control, wiring and installation. Options, the control system, wiring and installation are on top; we quote the finished shade at the measure.
How wide can a Crestron shade in SheerWeave 2500 be?
Crestron lists a usable roll width of 124 inches for SheerWeave 2500; the fabric can be railroaded, turned 90 degrees on the roll, so one shade can run wider than the roll as long as it is no taller than the roll width, and where it is taller Crestron joins two widths with a horizontal seam, which we line up with a mullion or a transom. We confirm the limit for the chosen hardware when we measure.
Is Crestron SheerWeave 2500 the same fabric as the mill's?
Crestron buys SheerWeave 2500 from Phifer and lists it under its own SKUs and price tier. The weave is the one on our Phifer SheerWeave 2500 series page, where the mill's full optical and fire data lives; Crestron's page here shows the colourways and openness Crestron actually stocks for its shades.
Can I see SheerWeave 2500 samples before ordering?
Yes. We bring samples of the colours you shortlist to the in-home consultation, so you judge them against your own glass, and both showrooms, 4539 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale (by appointment) and 500 South Pointe Dr #150 in Miami Beach, have motorized shades running.
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Crestron SheerWeave 2500 shades in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
We specify SheerWeave 2500 on Crestron Digital QMT motors and hardware for any project from Miami to Palm Beach; Crestron builds each shade to order from our measurements, and we install it with our own team and commission it with your integrator. Both showrooms, 4539 Powerline Rd in Fort Lauderdale (by appointment) and 500 South Pointe Dr #150 in Miami Beach, have motorized shades running so you can see the fabric in motion.
See SheerWeave 2500 in your own light
Book a complimentary in-home consultation. Shortlist the colours you like and we bring samples, demo motors, and honest answers about openness, colour and what your windows actually need.