Lutron · blackout
Blackout Screen
Read the reflectance before the colourway. Pearl reflects 65% of the solar energy that hits it, where Charcoal reflects 4%.
- 78% PVC, 22% Polyester
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Shades / Shade Fabrics / Roller Shade Fabrics
Roller Shade Fabrics
198 fabrics, 2,453 colourways, five makers: every roller shade fabric we carry, grouped by what it does on the glass, with openness, width, specs, the mill's digital card and a link to every colourway. Made up in our Fort Lauderdale workroom or fitted by the maker, installed from Miami to Palm Beach.
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Every Fabric, One Page
Which roller shade fabric: blackout, solar screen, light-filtering or sheer?
Pick the light class first, then the maker, then the colour. A blackout stops light through the cloth and gives full privacy; a solar screen keeps the view and cuts glare in proportion to its openness (0.1% to 25% on this page); a light-filtering textile glows and hides the room by day; a sheer only softens the light. The same four jobs are done by 198 fabrics (2,453 colourways) from the five books we carry: Lutron, Phifer, Mermet, Crestron and TOP Window Covering, and this page puts all of them side by side.
Three practical limits decide the rest. Width: the widest single-cut screens here are Phifer SheerWeave 2000/2100 at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 2500/2410/2390/2360 at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 2701/2703/2705/2710 at 126 in; blackouts run narrower (Mermet Zora Twilight at 126 in, Mermet Sparta Twilight at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 7500/7500R Blackout at 118 in), and past the roll a wide opening becomes a railroaded or a coupled shade (how wide one shade can be). System: Mermet, Phifer and TOP rolls are cut and made up in our workroom for Somfy, Vertilux, Forest, Dooya or manual shades; a Lutron or Crestron fabric arrives on a Lutron or Crestron shade, and the same weaves sit in all three books, so one house can match across systems. Light at night: no screen is private after dark with the lights on inside; a bedroom on a screen gets a blackout behind it.
Four Jobs
What each light class does, and where it belongs #
The maker's name comes second. A fabric is chosen for what it does to light, view and privacy on a particular window, and the four groups on this page sort every fabric we carry by that first.
Blackout · 61 fabrics
Dark room, full privacy, no view
A woven or textured face bonded to an opaque back. Nothing comes through the cloth; what still gets in comes round the edges, so a room that must be fully dark gets side channels, a pocket or a drapery over the shade. Bedrooms, nurseries, media rooms, and the second layer of a dual shade on east glass.
Solar screen · 81 fabrics
Keep the view, cut the glare and the heat
An open weave, rated by openness factor: 0.1% is the tightest on this page, 25% the most open. Tighter and darker gives the sharper view and the better glare control; paler faces reflect more of the sun. Living rooms, slider walls, ocean and Intracoastal views, offices, lanais with the outdoor-rated weaves.
Light-filtering · 49 fabrics
Soft daylight, privacy by day, no view
Dense textiles, linens, boucles and jacquards that turn hard sun into an even glow and hide the room from outside by day. After dark, a lit room reads as shapes through the paler colours. Living rooms, dining rooms, offices and bedrooms that should wake with the light; most designs have a blackout twin in the same colours.
Sheer · 7 fabrics
The lightest touch
See-through cloths that soften the light and leave the view and the room in plain sight. On their own for a window that never needs privacy, or as the day layer of a dual shade with a blackout behind it.
Five Books
The five fabric makers on this page #
Two mills, two shade makers and one converter. Mermet and Phifer weave the cloth; Lutron and Crestron put their names on weaves from those mills and on designs of their own, and build the finished shade; TOP Window Covering supplies roller cloths that we cut and make up ourselves. Each has its own library on this site with every colourway; this page is the view across all five.
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| Maker | On this page | Colourways | Light classes | What it is, and who makes the shade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lutron | 62 cards, 47 designs | 776 | 23 blackout, 17 solar screen, 21 light-filtering, 1 sheer | Lutron's own fabric book, as fitted to Sivoia QS, Palladiom, Triathlon and Serena shades: many of the screens are Mermet and Phifer weaves under Lutron names, alongside Lutron's textiles, sheers and blackouts. Lutron builds the finished shade. Every Lutron fabric, including the honeycomb, wood and sheer-blind lines left off this page. |
| Phifer | 35 cards, 30 designs | 526 | 8 blackout, 22 solar screen, 5 light-filtering | SheerWeave solar screens and blackouts woven in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with Microban where Phifer lists it, GREENGUARD Gold listings and the widest rolls on this page. SunTex and SunScreen are the outdoor-rated group. We buy the roll and make the shade in our Fort Lauderdale workroom. Every Phifer fabric with its spec sheets and swatch cards. |
| Mermet | 19 cards, 17 designs | 357 | 5 blackout, 11 solar screen, 3 light-filtering | Solar screens woven by Mermet USA in Cowpens, South Carolina: E Screen, T Screen, M Screen, S Screen and the Deco weaves, KOOLBLACK on the charcoals, GreenScreen PVC-free, the reinforced-core Natté and Satiné for indoors or out, and the Daylight and Twilight textile pairs. We buy the roll and make the shade. Every Mermet fabric with the mill's published figures. |
| Crestron | 45 cards, 40 designs | 431 | 11 blackout, 26 solar screen, 8 light-filtering | Crestron's fabric shop for its own motorized shades: Mermet, Phifer and Coulisse weaves in the Designer and Heritage collections, each with a Crestron price tier. Crestron ships the complete shade; we measure, specify, install and commission it. Every Crestron fabric with its tier, and the horizontal sheers. |
| TOP Window Covering | 37 cards, 37 designs | 363 | 14 blackout, 5 solar screen, 12 light-filtering, 6 sheer | TOP Window Covering's roller and flame-retardant contract fabrics in translucent, blackout, transparent and screen weaves, cut and made up in our workroom. The zebra, honeycomb and pleated fabrics stay on their own pages. Every TOP fabric, including zebra, honeycomb and pleated. |
The Catalogue
198 fabrics in four groups #
Every card is one fabric design from one maker, in one light class: name, openness, how many colourways, how wide a single shade can be cut, what it is made of, its listings, a line on where we use it, and two links: the full page on this site with every colourway and the published figures, and the maker's own digital card or data sheet where one exists. A design that comes both light-filtering and blackout appears once in each group.
Total Darkness
Blackout roller shade fabrics: 61 fabrics, 524 colourways #
An opaque face with a coated or laminated back: no light through the cloth, no view, full privacy day and night. Bedrooms, nurseries, media rooms, and the second layer behind a solar screen on glass that faces the sunrise.
On this list: Lutron 23, Phifer 8, Mermet 5, Crestron 11, TOP 14.
Lutron · blackout
Bouclé Blackout
The blackout face of Bouclé, 11 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 40% Polyester, 60% Flocked Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Element
The building decides this one, not the room.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Encore Blackout
Encore is the blackout to pick when the front layer sets the colour. Eleven colourways cover the range of screens on this site, so both shades in a dual roller can read as one fabric from the room and from the street.
- 50% Polyester / 50% Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Ethos Blackout
The blackout face of Ethos, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 52% Polyester, 48% Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Harbor Blackout
The blackout face of Harbor, 4 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 44% Polyester, 56% Acrylic Foam Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · blackout
Highland Blackout
Highland is a bedroom fabric with a facade job to do. The grey back is why it gets specified on a tower, and at 116 inches most condo bedroom sliders come out as a single panel.
- 45% Polyester, 55% Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Hue
Hue is chosen for the colour and nothing else, so use it where the shade is meant to be seen. Black in a media room reads as part of a dark wall.
- 33% Polyester, 67% Acrylic Back Coating
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · blackout
Luna Blackout
The blackout face of Luna, 14 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 45% Polyester, 55% Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Lutron · blackout
Matrice Blackout
The blackout face of Matrice, 9 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 40% Polyester, 60% Acrylic Backing &...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Mirage Blackout
The blackout face of Mirage, 4 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 43% Polyester, 57% Acrylic foam coating
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · blackout
Mosaic Blackout
The blackout face of Mosaic, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 45% Polyester, 55% Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Palette Blackout
The blackout face of Palette, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Pochoir Blackout
The blackout face of Pochoir, 7 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 35% Polyester, 65% Flocked Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Premiere
Premiere earns its place overhead.
- 42% Fiberglass, 51% Acrylic, 7% Cotton...
- PVC-free
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Roseau Blackout
The blackout face of Roseau, 13 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Satine Blackout
The blackout face of Satine, 11 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 40% Polyester, 60% Flocked Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Standard
Standard is a width decision more than a fabric decision.
- 25% Fiberglass, 75% PVC Coating
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $
Lutron · blackout
Stratus Blackout
The blackout face of Stratus, 6 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Foam Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Stria Blackout
The blackout face of Stria, 6 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 38% Polyester, 62% Acrylic backing and...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Tela Blackout
The blackout face of Tela, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Tre Blackout
The blackout face of Tre, 7 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · blackout
Verso
The reason to pay for Verso is a shade that is seen from both sides.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7001 Blackout
A bedroom, a nursery or a media room where the shade has to look finished on both faces, which is what the flocked backing gives you at the window side.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Flocked...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7100 Blackout
One job, done better here than anywhere else in the library. A bedroom or a bathroom that already carries a 2500, 2410, 2390 or 2360 screen and wants the blackout to match it exactly.
- 37% Fiberglass, 63% Vinyl on Fiberglass;...
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7200R Blackout
The blackout face of SheerWeave 7200R/7250R, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7300 Blackout
The blackout face of SheerWeave 7300/7350, 9 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 44.5% Polyester / 55.5% Acrylic
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7400 Blackout
The blackout face of SheerWeave 7400/7450R, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 45% Polyester / 55% Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7500/7500R Blackout
Bedrooms, media rooms, a nursery, a hotel guest room, and any opening up to 118 inches that has to go properly dark in one piece.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7700R Blackout
The blackout face of SheerWeave 7700R/7750R, 7 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · blackout
SheerWeave 7800 Blackout
The blackout face of SheerWeave 7800/7850, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 52% Polyester / 48% Acrylic Foamed Backing
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · blackout
Elba Twilight
The blackout face of Elba, 5 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% polyester with acrylic coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Mermet · blackout
Flocké
Specification-led work first, in a room whose fire schedule names a European standard. In a house it suits a media room or a study of ordinary width, where the weight and the flocked back give the shade a quiet, dead-flat hang.
- 42% fiberglass / 51% acrylic
- PVC-free
- NFPA 701
Mermet · blackout
Sofia Twilight
The blackout face of Sofia, 6 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- 100% polyester with acrylic coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Mermet · blackout
Sparta Twilight
Wide oceanfront bedrooms, hotel and association work, and any blackout that has to pass a fire specification. 126 inches covers most sliders in one piece, and the cloth is thin enough to roll small where the pocket is shallow.
- 33% polyester / 67% acrylic
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · blackout
Zora Twilight
The wide blackout. At 126 inches most bedroom sliders come out in one piece, and a bedroom is where this fabric belongs, along with a media room or a nursery.
- 100% polyester with acrylic coating...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Crestron · blackout
Bella
The blackout face of Bella, 11 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Cosima
Bedrooms, and especially the ones where the air runs damp: a pool-house guest room, a cabana suite, an apartment left closed through the humid months while its owners are north.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Dilanna
Rooms that must go dark behind wide glass: a cinema room off the family room, a primary bedroom in a strong colour scheme, a guest suite whose slider runs past the roll.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Flocke
Bedrooms first, and any Crestron room that has to go dark: a primary suite on the ocean, a nursery, a media room where the screen is watched by day.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 4
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Harika
A bedroom on the shaded side of the house that wants its outlook softened by day and shut at night.
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Merinda
The blackout face of Merinda, 5 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Mika
The blackout face of Mika, 8 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
Nava
The blackout face of Nava, 7 colourways with an opaque back, for the bedroom or media room that must go dark; its light-filtering twin is listed in the light-filtering group below.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
SheerWeave 7001
Openings too wide for one shade in the other Phifer blackouts: a bedroom whose slider wall runs past the roll, a family room that doubles as a screening room at night.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
SheerWeave 7400
A house where some rooms need daylight with cover and others need dark: SheerWeave 7450 in the bathrooms, the stair and the office, 7400 in the bedrooms and the media room, one colour name through the floor.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · blackout
SheerWeave 7500
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.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
TOP Window Covering · blackout · contract
C-Screen Blackout
Hotel guest rooms, condo bedrooms in towers with a facade rule, nurseries, media rooms and boardrooms with a projector: anywhere the room has to go dark and the paperwork has to pass.
- 30% Polyester / 70% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Garda Blackout
Bedrooms, guest suites and media rooms that stay dry and air-conditioned, especially with a wide slider that should take one shade.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Linen Look Blackout
Bedrooms and media rooms in houses with dark frames or tinted glass, and wide sliders up to about 118 inches that need one shade.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Milan Blackout
Bedrooms, bathrooms and media rooms in a white, stone and charcoal interior, on windows up to about 110 inches.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Orient Blackout (colour backing)
Bedrooms and media rooms in houses with tinted glass or dark frames, where a white shade would show from the street, and condos whose rules allow a coloured street side.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Orient Blackout (white backing)
Bedrooms, nurseries and guest rooms on standard windows, in a building where every window should read white from outside.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
TOP Window Covering · blackout · contract
Orient FR Blackout
Hotel guest rooms, condo bedrooms and nurseries, boardrooms and media rooms where the specification calls for a flame-retardant blackout with no PVC.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- FR contract
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Palermo Blackout
Bedrooms and media rooms in a gray-and-white interior, and wide openings up to about 118 inches that should go dark in one shade.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Perugia Blackout
Bathrooms, bedrooms and guest rooms in humid or waterfront houses, and any opening up to about 118 inches that should go dark in one shade.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Riva Blackout
Tall windows, double-height rooms, shallow pockets and slim headboxes, where roll size decides the fabric. Also a media room or a bedroom that wants a black or graphite face behind a white street side.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Roma Blackout
Bedrooms and media rooms with wide openings, and rooms where the shade should look like a heavy textile rather than a plain blind.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Sorrento Blackout
Bedrooms, nurseries, guest rooms and media rooms, and any condo window where the association wants white at the glass and the owner wants colour in the room.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout
Trento Blackout
Bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms in a house that uses Trento Translucent or Trento Pleated elsewhere, where one colour should run through.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · blackout · contract
Vinyl Blackout
Media rooms, nurseries, staff and meeting rooms, conference rooms with projectors, pool houses and spa rooms that need a wipeable, fire-listed blackout.
- 40% Fiberglass / 60% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
No blackout fabrics from that maker. Pick another maker above.
Keep The View
Solar screen roller shade fabrics: 81 fabrics, 1,470 colourways #
Open weaves rated by openness factor: the percentage of the cloth that is open. Lower openness means more glare control and more daytime privacy; higher openness means more view and more light. Dark weaves give the sharper view out, pale weaves reflect more heat. None of them darken a room, and all of them turn clear after dark when the lights are on inside. The 7 outdoor-rated screens (marked) hang outside the glass as exterior roller shades as well as inside.
On this list: Lutron 17, Phifer 22, Mermet 11, Crestron 26, TOP 5.
Lutron · solar screen
Anderson
Lanai doors, pool baths and the humid rooms of a Florida house, because Lutron rates this cloth for moist conditions. Take 3% where the sun lands directly and 5% where it is filtered or the room faces north.
- 78% PVC, 22% Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Aura
Rooms where the shade is part of the finish and the sun is not extreme. Parchment reflects 63% of the solar energy that hits it and is the one for a bright, unshaded wall.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · solar screen
Basketweave
Standard windows rather than slider walls, because at 96 inches a wall of glass becomes several shades. Chalk is the one for a hot unshaded elevation, reflecting 77% of the solar energy that lands on it.
- 24% Polyester, 76% Vinyl on Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Basketweave 27
Work the openness against the exposure and hold the colour constant. Charcoal or Charcoal/Grey at 1% belongs on west glass and in any room with a monitor.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Basketweave 90
Pick the colour for the building and the openness for the wall.
- 37% Fiberglass, 63% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Basketweave 4000 Eco
Lutron rates this one for moist conditions, which puts it on lanai doors, pool baths and the covered terraces that chew through ordinary fabrics in a Florida summer.
- 25% Polyester, 75% Vinyl on Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · solar screen
Basketweave Eco2
Standard windows and single doors, since the cloth cannot be seamed.
- 100% Recycled Content TPO (Thermoplastic...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · solar screen
Blakeley
A humid room with a real sun problem: a pool bath, a laundry with a west window, a lanai door. Lutron rates the cloth for moist conditions and the 1% weave is tight enough to be worth putting there.
- 78% PVC, 22% Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Lutron · solar screen
E Screen
Lutron lists E Screen on tensioned shades as well as rollers, so the same weave can go on a skylight or a sloped clerestory and match the vertical windows under it.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl
- KOOLBLACK
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Lutron · solar screen
Jacquard
The openness arrives with the colour here, so the pattern you like decides how much sun you get. Bark/Tiger Oak and the two Tweeds are the 5% weaves and the ones for glass the sun actually reaches.
- 28% Polyester, 72% Vinyl on Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
M Screen
Three openness factors cover a whole floor. Put 1% on the west and south-west glass and in any room with a screen in it, 3% on the water side as the default, 5% where the sun is filtered or the room faces north.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Natural Screen
One openness and four colours makes this a short decision, and the stain-resistant finish points it at the rooms that get handled: a family room slider, a kitchen window, a lanai door.
- 38%Polyester, 62%Vinyl
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
OmniaScreen Silver
Unshaded glass with nothing in front of it: a top-floor west wall, a south-west corner over the water, a sun room, a room with a television and a window on the same side.
- 75% Vinyl, 25% Polyester with aluminum...
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · solar screen
SheerLite
Bedrooms, studies and the shaded elevations of a house, and wide ones at that: at 116 inches most standard sliders come out as a single shade.
- 30% Polyester, 70% Vinyl on Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Sheerweave 4900
Hard-surfaced rooms with standard windows, since the roll stops at 96 inches.
- 17% Polyester, 83% Vinyl on Polyester
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · solar screen
Sheerweave 8000
A room that is not fighting the sun, and a client who wants the glass to stay bright: a north bedroom, a stair window, a dining room under a deep soffit, a covered terrace.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · solar screen
T Screen
T Screen comes at 1% and 3% only, so the question is how much glare you want gone, not how much view you can buy. Take 1% on west and south-west glass, in an office with two monitors, and on high floors where nothing shades you.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl
- KOOLBLACK
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 1000
Shaded glass only. A north bedroom over a garden, a courtyard window, a stair, a covered walkway, a dining room that faces a hedge rather than the sky.
- 35% Fiberglass, 65% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 2000/2100
Style 2000 at 5% is the one to specify on shaded glass, north and east elevations, a courtyard window or a lanai under a deep overhang.
- 37% Fiberglass, 63% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 2500/2410/2390/2360
Think room, not just elevation. A home office or a den with a monitor wants Style 2500 at 1% in Charcoal or Pearl Gray.
- 37% Fiberglass, 63% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 2701/2703/2705/2710
Pick the openness by exposure first, the back colour second. Style 2701 at 1% suits a west-facing office or a media room with one window.
- 36% Fiberglass, 64% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 3000
A shaded room where the shade is meant to be seen. A north bedroom, a dining room, a covered lanai, a stair window over a landing.
- 67% Vinyl, 17.5% Fiberglass, 15.5% Polyester
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 4000 Eco
This is the card for a long unbroken run of wide shades, because the weight is what keeps several in a row hanging identically.
- 25% Polyester, 75% Vinyl on Polyester...
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 4500/4600
Take 4600 at 3% on anything that gets direct sun, which in most South Florida houses means the west and south-west rooms and the water side.
- 22% Polyester, 78% Vinyl on Polyester
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 4550/4650
Standard windows rather than slider walls, and rooms where you want the view to stay dark and clear without heating the glass.
- 17% Polyester, 83% Vinyl on Polyester
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 4800
On a wall of sliders where the sun lands square, this is the one shade that can be left down all afternoon and still leave the room usable.
- 24% Polyester, 76% Vinyl on Polyester
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 4901/4903
Two openness factors, so the choice is quick. 4901 at 1% for a west or south-west room, a home office with monitors, a media room with one window.
- 17% Polyester, 83% Vinyl on Polyester
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 5000
Rooms where the shade is furniture. A dining room, a principal bedroom, a study, a hallway window that people walk past every day.
- These results vary from pattern to...
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 5500
A room where you want the window to glow rather than to be controlled. A dining room, a stair, a guest bedroom, a hallway on the shaded side of the house.
- 21% Polyester, 74% Vinyl on Polyester...
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave 8000
Take Kohl, Seal or Smoke where the window gets sun and the brief still says no vinyl: a west-facing office, a media room, a wall of glass on the water.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave Basic
A whole unit, a rental turn, a spec house, the back half of a big house.
- 38% Fiberglass, 62% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave Infinity2
Take 1% in Midnight, Slate or Bark where the sun lands square and the room has screens in it. 3% is the general-purpose weave for a living room over the water.
- 100% TPO (Thermoplastic Olefin), 20% TPO...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave Privacy
Bathrooms, powder rooms, a ground-floor bedroom on a walkable street, an office that looks straight into the next tower.
- 17% Polyester, 83% Vinyl on Polyester...
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen
SheerWeave RE-USE
Take 1% in Black, Black/Bronze or Bronze for a west room, a home office, a media room or a study that faces the afternoon.
- 85% REPREVE® Recycled Polyester, 15%...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · solar screen · outdoor-rated
SunScreen
Fixed screen openings rather than roller shades. A porch, a screened window, a walkway, the shaded face of a pool cage.
- 35% Fiberglass, 65% Vinyl on Fiberglass
- Outdoor-rated
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · solar screen · outdoor-rated
SunTex 80/90
Fixed panels rather than retracting shades. A pool cage face, a screened porch, a carport side, a patio wall, a divider between two terraces.
- 31% Polyester, 69% Vinyl on Polyester
- Outdoor-rated
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · solar screen · outdoor-rated
SunTex 90 Design
Outdoor work where the fabric is read as a material rather than as a shade. A cabana wall, a pergola infill, a gate or courtyard panel, the sunny face of a pool enclosure.
- 31% Polyester, 69% Vinyl on Polyester
- Outdoor-rated
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · solar screen · outdoor-rated
SunTex 95/97 Matte
Exterior drop screens where the shade is part of the elevation, on a tower balcony, a west-facing window wall or a cabana.
- 28% Polyester, 72% Vinyl on Polyester
- Outdoor-rated
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · solar screen · outdoor-rated
SunTex 95/97/99
This fabric stops the sun in the air rather than at the window, so its place is outside the glass.
- 28% Polyester, 72% Vinyl on Polyester
- Outdoor-rated
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Mermet · solar screen
E Screen
Take the openness from the exposure and the family from the problem. Standard E Screen at 3% or 5% is the whole-floor answer for living rooms and slider walls.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- KOOLBLACK
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
E Screen Deco
Rooms where the shade is part of the scheme and still has to work on the glass: a living room with wood and stone, a dining room, a study.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
GreenScreen Evolve
One openness, so the decision is the colour. 3% lands where most South Florida living-room and slider glass wants to be anyway, which makes Evolve straightforward across a whole floor.
- 100% polyester / 78% recycled content
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
GreenScreen Revive
The PVC-free fabric for a house with two kinds of window. 1% on west and south-west glass, on a study with monitors and on a skylight, where nothing else shades the opening.
- 100% polyester / 89% recycled content
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
M Screen
Rooms you look at as well as through: a warm living room, a dining room, a lanai wall in a house built on travertine and pale oak.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
M Screen Deco
Warm interiors with terracotta, travertine or dark wood, where a plain white screen looks cold.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen · outdoor-rated
Natté
Outside the glass first: a terrace, a balcony or a pool deck, on a motorized exterior roller in side tracks.
- 42% fiberglass / 58% vinyl
- Outdoor-rated
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
S Screen
Two different jobs on one page. S Screen at 1% is for a hard exposure where the roller is on show, a west-facing study or a Miami Beach living room with one large window, and at 4% for general living-room glass.
- 33.6% fiberglass / 59.6% vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen · outdoor-rated
Satiné
Two clear cases. Outdoors, Satiné at 5% on a terrace or pool deck where a two-tone weave would look busy and one quiet dark shade is wanted, on a motorized exterior roller.
- 42% fiberglass / 58% vinyl
- Outdoor-rated
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
T Screen
Only 1% and 3% are woven, so this is a glare fabric before it is anything else. Take 3% on a living room over the water where the horizon should stay legible, and 1% on west and south-west glass and in a study with a monitor.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- KOOLBLACK
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · solar screen
T Screen Deco
A tower with an appearance rule and an interior that should not be white. 3% for general living-room glass, 1% for a west or south-west exposure and for a study with a screen, 5% for shaded and covered openings.
- 36% fiberglass / 64% vinyl
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Crestron · solar screen
E Screen
A west-facing living room gets 1% openness; a wall of sliders on the Intracoastal or the ocean gets 3% openness, the setting most Crestron floors end up on; a room under a deep terrace, 5% openness; a north-facing study or a stair, 10%...
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
E Screen KOOLBLACK
West and south-west glass, and any window where a client wants charcoal and the room runs warm: an ocean-facing living room in the afternoon, a media room with a wall of sliders, a south-west bedroom.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tiers 4, 3
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Emma
A room that is not fighting the sun and wants the card: a north-facing dining room, a study under a deep balcony, bedrooms on the shaded side of a house that runs a plainer screen on the water.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Esprit
Whole-house Crestron rollers where the fabric budget matters: a wall of sliders on the Intracoastal, a new condo, bedrooms and living room on one specification.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 1
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Grant
A project that wants the lowest tier on the budget grid and has settled on 5% openness: view rooms under a terrace, east and south glass with shade, a condo where living room, bedrooms and office take one weave and the colour changes...
- Crestron Tier 1
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Harika
A bedroom on the shaded side of the house that wants its outlook softened by day and shut at night.
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · solar screen
M Screen
The living, dining and family rooms of a house with a scheme to respect: 3% openness on the open glass of a waterfront living room or a slider wall, 5% openness under a covered terrace or on east glass that is bright only until mid-morning.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Nohea
A window where the back of the fabric shows: Decor hardware with the roll exposed, a glazed partition, a slider seen from a terrace.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Perla
A PVC-free brief, or a room that wants a polyester cloth rather than a coated screen: a north or east living room, a bedroom over a terrace, an office where a screen must stay readable.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Rachel
The sheltered side of a house or a condo: a north-facing living room, an east bedroom under a terrace, a dining room that wants the light softened, not stopped.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
Crestron · solar screen
S Screen
A room where the shade is seen down most of the day and the weave is part of the scheme: a dining room, a study, a family room behind a loggia, a north or east bedroom.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Santos
A shade seen from both sides or whose roll is on show: Decor hardware in a loft or an office, a glazed partition, a slider that a terrace looks back into.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Sena
Shaded glass where the view is the point: a north-facing living room, a bay window under a deep overhang, the panel beside a slider on the Intracoastal side of a house whose west wall runs a tighter weave.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2360
North-facing rooms and shaded glass: a living room that looks at the Intracoastal from under a deep terrace, a stairwell, a kitchen window on the sheltered side of the house, a north bedroom with a blackout behind.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2390
A view room whose sun arrives filtered: under a terrace, behind a tree line, on the Intracoastal side of a house that faces east.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2410
The ocean front, the south glass, the living spaces of a condo from Miami Beach to Boca Raton: 3% is the openness we put down first and move off only with a reason.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2500
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.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2701
West and south-west glass where the shade is seen from both sides or the roll is on show: a study on Decor hardware, an office with monitors, a kitchen whose window wall opens onto a lanai, the west bedroom that is used in the afternoon.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2703
Ocean-front and south-facing living rooms where the shade is seen from both sides, and any shade on exposed Decor hardware at 3%.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2705
Rooms where the sun arrives filtered: a living room under a deep terrace, an east-facing breakfast room, a north slider wall, a study behind a loggia.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 2710
North glass, and not much else: a courtyard window, a room under a wide overhang, the shaded side of a tower where the brief is the view and the sky's glare rather than the sun.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 4500
The rooms where a 5% weave is right and the scheme wants one even colour: a den off a screened lanai, a north-facing home office, a breakfast room under the balcony above, a stair landing, a guest bedroom on the shaded side.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 4600
The water side of a house that wants one colour on every window: the east glass of an oceanfront tower, a south living room, a corner unit with glass on two sides, a primary bedroom that reads the water in the morning.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave 8000
Rooms where daylight is the point and the sun is not on the glass: a dining room under a balcony, a studio with north light, a child's room on the shaded side.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
SheerWeave Infinity 2
Any window a 5% screen suits, on a project that has ruled out vinyl: a Coconut Grove renovation, a north-facing studio, a family room under a terrace, a bedroom on the shaded side, a nursery.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 2
- Heritage Collection
Crestron · solar screen
Wende
View rooms with some sun: a living room under a terrace, an east or south bedroom, a dining room off a shaded lanai.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
TOP Window Covering · solar screen · contract
C-Screen Linen 5%
Shaded and north glass, rooms under a balcony, restaurant windows on a covered terrace, and hotel rooms where a softer screen suits the scheme.
- 18% Polyester / 66% PVC / 16% Linen
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · solar screen · contract
D-Screen 5%
Filtered and shaded glass: an office floor behind a colonnade, a hotel corridor or restaurant under a deep overhang, a condo clubroom facing a courtyard, a covered loggia at home.
- 30% Polyester / 70% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · solar screen · contract
Essence Screen
Hotel guest rooms and lobbies, office floors, condo clubrooms and corridors, and any house that wants one screen on every window.
- 30% Polyester / 70% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · solar screen · contract
Fashion Screen 3%
Rooms where glare is the complaint and the view still matters: an office floor with monitors, a hotel bar or lobby facing the water, a condo clubroom, a family room with the television on the window wall.
- 30% Polyester / 70% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · solar screen · contract
Finesse Screen 3%
Wide sliders and storefront glass, rooms with a shallow pocket or a tight fascia, and runs where several shades share one headrail and the weight adds up.
- 30% Polyester / 70% PVC
- FR contract
- Microban
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
No solar screen fabrics from that maker. Pick another maker above.
Soft Light, Full Privacy
Light-filtering (translucent) roller shade fabrics: 49 fabrics, 389 colourways #
Dense textiles that let daylight through as a glow and hide the room by day. No view out, and after dark a lit room shows as shapes through the paler colours. Living rooms, offices and bedrooms that should wake up with the sun; most of these designs have a blackout twin in the same colours, listed above. 25 of these designs come with a blackout twin in the same colours.
On this list: Lutron 21, Phifer 5, Mermet 3, Crestron 8, TOP 12.
Lutron · light-filtering
Austin
Austin exists for one reason, which is three warm colourways for rooms built on wood, rattan and stone rather than white trim.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Bistre
Treat Bistre as a sheer in roller form. It belongs where a sheer drapery would go and there is no room for the stack, so think of a lanai door, a stair window or an inward-facing condo window on a light well.
- 100% Polyester (Trevira CS)
- PVC-free
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Bouclé
The looped face is the reason to buy it, so put it where people stand close to it: a primary bedroom, a sitting room, a hotel-style condo living room where the shade reads as upholstery.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
GreenScreen Evolve
Specify GreenScreen Evolve where a materials schedule rules PVC out and a fiberglass screen is therefore off the table: schools, clinics and office fit-outs chasing Cradle to Cradle points.
- 100% Polyester, 67% Recycled Content
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Harbor
Four colours, and the darkest of them does most of the work. Pearl, Sand and Fog belong in living rooms and bedrooms that should stay light through the day.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Loop
Pick Loop by its published transmission, because the eight colourways behave like different fabrics.
- 100% Recycled PET Yarns with Recycled...
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Luna
The practical split is by opening size. Luna light-filtering cannot be seamed or turned, so 108 inches is its limit and a wide slider becomes two shades.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · light-filtering
Matrice
Of the light-filtering Atelier weaves this is one of the more open at under 4%, so it keeps a room brighter than a Satine or a Pochoir will.
- 80% Polyester, 20% Stiffening Agents
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Mirage
Take Mirage where the window is a source of light and nothing else: a stair landing, a powder room, a hall window facing a neighbour.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Monomer
Monomer is the cheapest way to put a sheer roller in a room that asks little of it, such as a hallway, a laundry or a guest bath facing a neighbour's wall.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$
Lutron · light-filtering
Mosaic
Mosaic is the colour option on this card, and colour behaves differently in a light-filtering shade, because Seagrass or Spice lit from behind tints the daylight coming into the room.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Palette
Standard windows and single doors, not slider walls. At 96 inches Palette is narrow for a designer roller cloth, so a wide opening becomes two or three shades before anything else is decided.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Pochoir
The weave pattern reads strongest with the light behind it, so the light-filtering face shows most of itself on a west or south window in the afternoon and least on a north one.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Riley
Riley is the cool half of the same idea as Austin: Moonstone, Dune and Chambray, a dense under 1% weave in polyester with an acrylic coating.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Roseau
Choose the colour by its published transmission, not by the swatch under showroom light. White and Pearl pass 47% of the visible light and suit a north-facing room that has to stay bright.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Satine
At 0.018 inches the light-filtering face is thin for a cloth of this weight and rolls to a small diameter, which matters in a shallow pocket or a slim fascia above a wall of glass.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Stratus
Pick by exposure. Swan, Oyster, Sail and Chiffon are the pale end and belong on north and east glass and in bright living rooms.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Stria
Read the card before the room.
- 80% Polyester, 20% Stiffening Agents
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Tela
At under 6% openness this is the most open light-filtering weave on the Atelier card, so it keeps a room brighter and covers less than the tighter cloths do.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Tre
Three cloths, one colour card, and the choice is about how much you want to see. Tre Sheer at over 10% openness keeps the view and the daylight, so it belongs on a shaded living room window or as the front layer of a dual roller.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$
Lutron · light-filtering
Vista
Vista is dual sided, with a back that matches its face, so the street side of the shade is the same colour as the room side.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Lutron price $$$$
Phifer · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7250R Light-Filtering
Two different fabrics on one card, so decide room by room. Style 7200R, the blackout, goes in bedrooms and media rooms.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7350 Light-Filtering
Style 7300 is the blackout: principal bedrooms, guest rooms, a media room.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Phifer · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7450R Light-Filtering
Take this pair when the scheme is warm rather than grey. Style 7400, the blackout, handles the bedrooms and the guest suite.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7750R Light-Filtering
Style 7700R is the blackout, and the reason to take it over the other pairs is the coloured back, which puts a dark face on the outside of a tower window.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Phifer · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7850 Light-Filtering
The soft-treatment card.
- 100% Polyester with Acrylic Coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Mermet · light-filtering
Elba Daylight
The pair for a room that should read as textile rather than technical. Elba Daylight belongs on a street-facing bedroom, a bathroom or a stair window, and on any glass a neighbour looks straight into.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Mermet · light-filtering
Sofia Daylight
Rooms where light matters more than view. Sofia Daylight suits a street-facing bedroom, a guest suite or a bathroom, and any window a neighbour stands close to: it takes the view out in both directions and leaves the room bright.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- Fire listed
Mermet · light-filtering
Vizela
Commercial rooms that need daylight and a fire schedule at once, and the domestic ones nobody should be able to see into: a bathroom, a street-facing bedroom, a stair window over a walkway.
- 100% fiberglass / EVA coating
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
Crestron · light-filtering
Bella
Decide by what each room does after dark. A bedroom takes both weaves in one colour on a dual roller, light-filtering for the day and blackout for sleep.
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Desiré
Rooms that want daylight and cover in a scheme built around Grain, Bark, Charcoal or Mist: a study, a powder room, a guest bedroom on a side elevation, a laundry.
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Ella
Bathrooms, secondary bedrooms, a home office facing the next tower, a stair or corridor window: rooms that want daylight without a sightline, in a building whose rules call for a fire listing.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Merinda
Merinda earns its higher tier where the bottom bar shows.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Mika
With both weaves in the same tier, cost does not steer the choice; the room does. A primary bedroom takes the two together, matched by name, on a dual roller.
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Nava
The blackout Nava sits a tier above the light-filtering weave, so spend it where a room has to be dark.
- Crestron Tier 1
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
SheerWeave 7450
Glass that looks at a wall, a side yard or a parking deck, in a room that wants daylight: a home office, a dressing room, a guest room above the garage.
- Crestron Tier 2
- Designer Collection
Crestron · light-filtering
Vizela
A bathroom, a stair landing, a guest bedroom facing a courtyard or a neighbour, a home office where the glass looks at a wall: rooms that want daylight and daytime cover and have no view to keep.
- Fire listed
- Crestron Tier 3
- Designer Collection
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering · contract
Ancona FR
Rooms that want daylight and privacy rather than a view: a hotel corridor or meeting room, a condo fitness room facing the parking deck, an office looking into the next building, a guest bath.
- 100% Polyester
- FR contract
- Microban
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Blues
East bedrooms, guest rooms, a den or a television room: anywhere the aim is a low, even light rather than full dark.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Flamenco
Bedrooms, studies, dining rooms and family rooms where a textured shade suits the room and the windows are away from showers and steam.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Garda Translucent
Kitchens, baths, family rooms and stairwells on north or east glass, and any wide window where a single 300 cm shade is better than a pair.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering · contract
Orient FR
Hotel rooms, offices and condo common areas where the window should give light and privacy but no view, and where a fire listing is required.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- FR contract
- NFPA 701
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Orient XXL
The everyday daylight shade for living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, children's rooms and studies, wherever the scheme is built on a colour and the shade has to belong to it.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Perugia Translucent
Living rooms, family rooms and dens with wide glass, where the shade should look like woven cloth and the room should stay light.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Pompei
Formal living rooms, dining rooms, primary bedrooms and studies on north, east or shaded glass, where a woven figure adds to the room and the job is soft light rather than control.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Swing Translucent
Studies, guest rooms, family rooms and children's rooms on north or east windows, where a coloured, textured shade adds to the room.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Trento Translucent
The default light-filtering cloth for a whole floor: living and dining rooms, kitchens, home offices and baths, in one colour family throughout.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Varese
Dining rooms, formal living rooms, studies and primary bedrooms on north, east or shaded glass, where a figured shade is part of the design.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · light-filtering
Verona Plus
Living rooms, dining rooms, guest rooms and home offices where daylight is the point and the outside only needs softening.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
No light-filtering fabrics from that maker. Pick another maker above.
Diffused Daylight
Sheer and transparent roller shade fabrics: 7 fabrics, 70 colourways #
The lightest layer on this page: soft, see-through cloths that take the edge off the light without closing the room. Used alone on a view window that never needs privacy, or as the day layer in a dual shade with a blackout behind it.
On this list: Lutron 1, TOP 6.
Lutron · sheer
Ethos
Colour matters more than openness here, and the published figures show it. White at 1% openness still passes 32% of the visible light, and at 5% it passes 37%, so a tighter weave in a pale colour buys you almost nothing.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
- GREENGUARD Gold
- NFPA 701
- Lutron price $$$
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Orient Transparent
Day rooms with an outlook worth keeping and sun that is already under control: a north or east living room, a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room behind a covered terrace, a stair window.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Palermo Transparent
Wide windows and sliders up to 118 inches in rooms that want daylight and the view with a calm, single-tone shade: a living room, a kitchen, a home office.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Puglia Transparent
Living rooms, family rooms, breakfast areas and dining rooms that want daylight, texture and the outlook at once, on windows that see morning sun or sun broken by trees or an overhang.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Reve Transparent
A study, a dining room, a reading corner, a living room window under a porch roof: rooms where the shade is part of the decorating and the window is shaded for most of the day.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Rimini Transparent
Stairs, hallways, a tall narrow window, a guest room on the shaded side, a kitchen window with little depth above it: places where a slim roll and a soft daylight veil matter more than control.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
TOP Window Covering · sheer
Roma Transparent
Wide openings in living rooms, family rooms and dens where you want daylight, the view and a cloth with some weight to it.
- 100% Polyester
- PVC-free
No sheer fabrics from that maker. Pick another maker above.
Good to Know
Roller shade fabrics: questions
Which roller shade fabric is best for a bedroom? #
A blackout, if the room has to be dark: it stops light through the cloth, and with side channels or a drapery over it the room stays dark at dawn. A light-filtering textile, if you want to wake with the sun: full privacy by day, a soft glow in the morning. Many designs on this page come as a pair in the same colours, one light-filtering and one blackout, so a bedroom and the hallway outside it can match. A solar screen on its own is not a bedroom fabric: it passes light at every openness and is see-through after dark with a lamp on.
What does openness factor mean on a solar screen? #
The share of the woven cloth that is open space. A 1% weave is tight, a 10% weave is open. The screens on this page run from 0.1% to 25%. Lower openness blocks more sun, cuts more glare and gives more daytime privacy; higher openness keeps more of the view and lets more light in. The colour matters as much: a dark weave at 3% gives the clearest view out, a white one at 3% reflects more heat and shows more glare on a television. Every solar screen card gives the openness values the maker publishes for that design.
Is 3% or 5% openness better for an ocean view? #
On the water 3% is the usual answer: it keeps the horizon and tames the glare off the sea without going dark. 5% keeps more of the view and more light for a room that faces away from the afternoon sun; 1% is for a west-facing room or the wall behind a television. In a dark charcoal or bronze the view stays sharp at any of the three; in white or pearl the weave itself catches the light and the view softens.
Do blackout roller shade fabrics block all the light? #
Through the cloth, yes: a blackout stops light. Round the edges, no. A roller shade sits inside or over the opening with a small gap each side and the fabric is narrower than the tube, so daylight still slips in at the sides and over the hembar. For a room that must be fully dark the shade runs in side channels, sits in a pocket, or has a drapery over it. The blackout shades page explains mounts and edge gaps.
Can I get the same fabric on a Lutron, Somfy or Crestron shade? #
Often, yes. Mermet, Phifer and TOP sell the roll, and we cut it and make the shade in our Fort Lauderdale workroom, so those fabrics go on Somfy, Vertilux, Forest, Dooya or manual rollers. Lutron and Crestron sell the finished shade with the fabric on it, from their own books. Because the same weaves (E Screen, T Screen, M Screen, SheerWeave) sit in the Mermet, Phifer, Lutron and Crestron books, a house with a Lutron system in the main rooms and Somfy shades in the guest wing can still match the fabric across the floor. The card on this page names the book; the fabric page names the colourway code.
What is KOOLBLACK? #
Mermet's heat-reflective treatment for its dark weaves. A conventional charcoal screen gives the sharpest view and the best glare control but absorbs the sun; KOOLBLACK keeps the charcoal face and reflects more of the sun's near-infrared, so the fabric and the glass run cooler. On this page it is on Lutron E Screen, Lutron T Screen, Mermet E Screen, Mermet T Screen; the Mermet library has the published figures.
Which roller shade fabrics are PVC-free? #
On this page, by the makers' own composition statements: Lutron: Austin, Basketweave Eco2, Bistre, Bouclé, Element, Encore, Ethos, GreenScreen Evolve and more; Phifer: SheerWeave 7001 Blackout, SheerWeave 7200R/7250R, SheerWeave 7300/7350, SheerWeave 7400/7450R, SheerWeave 7500/7500R Blackout, SheerWeave 7700R/7750R, SheerWeave 7800/7850, SheerWeave 8000 and more; Mermet: Elba, Flocké, GreenScreen Evolve, GreenScreen Revive, Sofia, Sparta Twilight, Vizela, Zora Twilight; TOP Window Covering: Blues, Flamenco, Garda Blackout, Garda Translucent, Linen Look Blackout Color Backing, Milan Blackout White Backing, Orient Blackout Color Backing, Orient Blackout White Backing and more. The card of every fabric carries a PVC-free chip where the maker states it; most of the other solar screens are vinyl-coated fiberglass, the standard construction for a screen that holds its shape at full width.
How wide can one roller shade be in these fabrics? #
The roll is the first limit. The widest single-cut screens here are Phifer SheerWeave 2000/2100 at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 2500/2410/2390/2360 at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 2701/2703/2705/2710 at 126 in; the widest blackouts are Mermet Zora Twilight at 126 in, Mermet Sparta Twilight at 126 in, Phifer SheerWeave 7500/7500R Blackout at 118 in. Past the roll width a screen can often be railroaded (the roll turned sideways) and any fabric can be made as two or three coupled shades on one motor. Every card gives the maker's widest roll for that design; the full rules are on the page about how wide one roller shade can be.
Can I see these fabrics before I order? #
Yes. Shortlist from this page, then ask for samples: we order memo samples from the maker for the colourways you pick, and both showrooms, Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach, have shades running on glass so you can see the weaves in real light. If you already have a swatch or a photo of a fabric you like, the Fabric Finder matches it against every colourway on this site.
Which of these fabrics can go outside, on a lanai or a terrace? #
The outdoor-rated screens: Mermet Natté, Mermet Satiné, Phifer SunScreen, Phifer SunTex 80/90, Phifer SunTex 90 Design, Phifer SunTex 95/97 Matte, Phifer SunTex 95/97/99. They are woven for sun, salt air and wind, hang outside the glass as exterior roller shades, and cut the heat before it reaches the window. The same fabrics also work inside where a heavier screen is wanted.
Sources
Where the numbers come from #
Every figure on a card (openness, colourway count, width, composition, listings) is the maker's own, read from the five fabric libraries on this site, which carry the published spec sheets colourway by colourway. Makers revise their books; the page is rebuilt from the libraries when they change.
- Lutron Electronics, fabric book and fabric specifications for Sivoia QS, Palladiom, Triathlon and Serena shades (every Lutron colourway, openness, width and listing on this page). www.lutron.com
- Phifer Incorporated, SheerWeave and SunTex product pages, spec sheets and swatch cards (Tuscaloosa, Alabama). www.phifer.com
- Mermet USA, product pages and grouped spec sheets for E Screen, T Screen, M Screen, S Screen, Deco, Natte, Satine, GreenScreen and the Daylight and Twilight textiles (Cowpens, South Carolina). mermetusa.com
- Crestron Electronics, fabric shop and Fabric Information Guide (composition, listings, price tiers, collections). fabrics.crestron.com
- TOP Window Covering, roller and contract fabric collections and technical data sheets. www.topwindowcovering.com
- Exotic Shades & Draperies, the five fabric libraries on this site, each colourway with the maker's published figures: Lutron, Phifer, Mermet, Crestron and TOP Window Covering. www.exoticshades.com
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Who We Are
Exotic Shades & Draperies, Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach
Exotic Shades & Draperies is a South Florida window-treatment company that designs, sews and installs its own work: Lutron and Somfy motorized shades, custom draperies sewn in our Fort Lauderdale workroom by five in-house seamstresses, plantation shutters and blinds. Established in South Florida in 2024, backed by more than 20 years of window-treatment manufacturing and installation experience. Lutron certified dealer, Somfy Expert, Crestron and Control4 integration. The same in-house team measures, installs and programs every project; when shading has to integrate with another control system, we bring in our smart-home partner Adom Smart Home.
Fort Lauderdale workroom and showroom
4539 Powerline Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 · 954-881-9331
Miami Beach showroom
500 South Pointe Dr #150, Miami Beach, FL 33139 · 954-872-9007
Where we install
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties: Miami Beach, Sunny Isles and Aventura through Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach to Boca Raton, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach, with projects in the Caribbean and New York.
How a project runs
Free in-home measurement, a written quote from the same engine as our published prices, fabrication in our own workroom, installation and programming by our own team, and service on the systems we install.
Where We Install
Every one of these fabrics, measured and made for South Florida glass
Mermet, Phifer and TOP rolls cut and made up in our Fort Lauderdale workroom; Lutron and Crestron shades specified from their books and commissioned on site. One team measures, builds, installs and programs from Miami Beach to West Palm Beach, and both showrooms have the weaves running on glass.
Fort Lauderdale
Window treatments · Las Olas · Coral Ridge
Miami & Miami Beach
Window treatments · Brickell · Sunny Isles
Boca Raton
Window treatments · Royal Palm · Mizner Park
West Palm Beach
Window treatments · Palm Beach · Flagler
Lutron Shades & Blinds
Certified dealer · Shades & blinds
All Areas
Hollywood · Aventura · Sunny Isles · Pompano
Shortlisted a few fabrics?
Bring the list, or the photo of the room. One free hour with our team settles the light class, the openness and the colour for each window, with memo samples ordered from the maker for the ones you like, before anything is cut.