Crestron SheerWeave 7500 Fabric
12 colourways, blackout, 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 dual-sided blackout with the largest card in the libraryTier 2
SheerWeave 7500 is Phifer's coated polyester blackout, 100% polyester with an acrylic coating, in Crestron's Designer Collection at Tier 2. Nothing passes through the cloth, so it is the fabric for a bedroom, a nursery or a media room that has to go dark on one keypad press. Crestron lists every colourway dual sided: the face at the glass is the face in the room, which is what a building wants to see from the street and what an exposed Decor roll needs. It is 116 inches wide, and because Crestron neither railroads nor seams it, 116 inches is also the widest single shade. Phifer's own figures for the weave are on our Phifer SheerWeave 7500 page.
Twelve colourways, the largest blackout card in the Crestron library: Cloud, Dune, Ice, Limestone, Midnight, Mist, Nimbus, Odyssey, Orient, Porcelain, Stone and Tundra. Crestron publishes solar figures for Ice and Midnight, Ts 0, Rs 68 and As 32: nothing transmitted, about two thirds of the sun's energy sent back at the glass and the rest absorbed in the cloth. The hembar is the Open Pocket, the Sealed Pocket or the Exposed Blackout bar that Crestron pairs with side channels; the Designer Half-Wrap is not offered on 7500. Because both faces match, we choose the colour from outside as well as inside, with a swatch held against the glass from the terrace as well as from the bed.
Woven by Phifer; the mill's full data is on our Phifer SheerWeave 7500 page.
What SheerWeave 7500 does on your glass, and what it does not
Best use
The blackout for a house that wants every bedroom dark on one specification: a primary suite, a guest room, a day sleeper's bedroom, a home theatre. A card this size lets each room keep its own colour while the fabric and its budget column stay the same. Cloud, Ice or Porcelain on a street-facing facade; Midnight where the shade should disappear into a dark room.
Privacy
Complete in daylight and after dark: nothing on the cloth to read, no outline, no glow, in any colour. What a neighbour sees at night is a thin line of light where the shade stops short of the frame, which side channels with the Exposed Blackout hembar close. Behind a solar screen the blackout is the only night cover the room has, so it belongs on a sunset event in the room's Crestron programming.
Glare control
Nothing comes through the cloth, so glare becomes a question of the edges. In a media room used by day, the slivers of sun at the sides are what wash out a projected picture; in a nursery at nap time, they are what the child wakes to. Where the frame has no depth for channels, an outside mount that overlaps the opening cuts most of them.
Limitations
No view and no daylight, and the heat it stops stays at the glass: on an unshaded west window the space between shade and glass runs hot. A coated blackout can show pinholes or fold marks until it has hung. And it is the wrong fabric for glare in a living room that wants its view; that room takes a screen by day and keeps 7500 for the night on a dual roller.
SheerWeave 7500 colourways
12 colours. Up to 116 in wide; Crestron Tier 2; dual sided; fire retardant; woven by Phifer.
Composition, ratings, certifications, hembar options and cleaning are from Crestron's Fabric Information Guide, revision 3.23.26.
Colourways
Every SheerWeave 7500 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 7500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 7500 works here
7500 is the blackout we reach for first in a Crestron condo bedroom from Sunny Isles Beach to Fort Lauderdale beach: 116 inches covers a 9-foot slider in one piece, and the cloth sits behind an E Screen or a SheerWeave 2500 series screen on a dual bracket so the room has a day setting and a night setting. Where the room must be sleep-dark at six in the morning on an east wall, we add Crestron's side channels and the Exposed Blackout hembar at measurement.
SheerWeave 7500 is the twelve-colour Tier 2 blackout that reads the same on both faces; SheerWeave 7400 is its eight-colour sibling matched to a light-filtering twin, SheerWeave 7001 the Tier 3 cloth that railroads for the widest openings, and Flocke the Mermet fiberglass blackout at 93 inches and Tier 4.
SheerWeave 7500: frequently asked
Why 7500 rather than 7001 or 7400?
Card and tier. 7500 has twelve colourways at Tier 2 and reads the same on both faces. SheerWeave 7001 is Tier 3, not dual sided, and the one Phifer blackout Crestron railroads and seams: choose it when a shade must be wider than the roll in one piece. SheerWeave 7400 is the eight-colour Tier 2 cloth whose card matches the 7450 light-filtering weave: choose it when one colour has to run in a dual roller by day. For a bedroom under 116 inches with no daytime twin, 7500.
What goes in front of 7500 by day?
A solar screen on the same bracket: E Screen or one of the SheerWeave 2500 series weaves at the openness the exposure wants, on the room side, with 7500 behind it at the glass. The screen keeps the view and the light through the working day and the blackout closes for the night, each on its own tube and its own scene. Crestron's dual brackets on the QMT3 and QMT5 hardware carry the pair, and the budget grid on this page counts a dual shade as two.
Will a 7500 shade fit an existing pocket?
Usually, but the roll decides. Crestron's minimum pocket for a single shade is 3 by 3 inches on the QMT3 hardware and 5 by 5 inches on the QMT5, and the roll of a blackout grows with the shade height, so a tall slider needs more than the minimum. On a renovation we measure the pocket that is there, check it against Crestron's charts for the height and the motor, and say before ordering whether the shade fits, needs a fascia instead, or needs the pocket opened up.
What does a Crestron shade in SheerWeave 7500 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 7500 be?
Crestron lists a usable roll width of 116 inches for SheerWeave 7500; it is not railroaded, so an opening wider than the roll takes two shades side by side, coupled on one bracket with the light gap set at a mullion. We confirm the limit for the chosen hardware when we measure.
Is Crestron SheerWeave 7500 the same fabric as the mill's?
Crestron buys SheerWeave 7500 from Phifer and lists it under its own SKUs and price tier. The weave is the one on our Phifer SheerWeave 7500 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 7500 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.
Crestron SheerWeave 7500 shades in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
We specify SheerWeave 7500 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 7500 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.