TOP Palermo Blackout White Backing Fabric
4 colourways, blackout, white backing, 300 cm roll. TOP Window Covering fabric, made into roller shades in our Fort Lauderdale workroom and installed from Miami to Palm Beach.
Four grays on a 118-inch blackout roll, the night half of a Palermo pair
Palermo Blackout White Backing is the blackout version of TOP Window Covering's Palermo, a lightly textured weave in four colours: White, Light Gray, Mid Gray and Dark Gray, each with a white back. It is 100% polyester with an acrylic foam coating, 0.69 mm thick and 350 g/m2, on a 300 cm roll, about 118 inches. On the window it reads as an even gray panel with a little surface interest, rather than a flat coated shade. It is for bedrooms and media rooms in a gray scheme, and for wide openings that should take one piece.
Light Gray is the one colour TOP publishes figures for: Tv 0, Ts 0 and solar reflectance of 70%, so no light passes and seven tenths of the sun's energy goes back out through the glass. White, Mid Gray and Dark Gray have no published rows. With four colours, the choice is how dark the room should feel: White or Light Gray for a bedroom that should stay light under lamps, Dark Gray for a media room. The trade-off is bulk, since a cloth this thick builds a large roll on a tall window.
What Palermo Blackout does on your glass, and what it does not
Best use
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. Pair it with Palermo Transparent in a bedroom with a view. Choose Light Gray when the specification needs a published heat figure, Dark Gray when the room should feel darkest. For wide glass in a gray scheme, choose Palermo.
Privacy
Day and night the cloth hides the room; in Light Gray, the one colour with published figures, TOP shows no light passing at all. A roller still leaves a narrow gap down each side, and a lit room shows those two lines to the street after dark. Side channels close them.
Glare control
With the shade down there is no glare because there is no daylight, which suits a television room and not a workspace. A low sun square to the window shows first at the side gaps. For daylight with the glare taken off, the transparent Palermo in front does that job on a dual roller.
Limitations
Four colours, all grays, so there is nothing warm on this card: do not buy it for a beige or wood-toned room, where Roma Blackout White Backing carries warmer neutrals at the same width. TOP lists no fire rating and publishes figures for Light Gray only, and at 0.69 mm a tall drop builds a large roll that a shallow pocket may not take.
Palermo Blackout White Backing
4 colours. Blackout, white backing; 300 cm (118 in) roll.
Colourways
Swatch pictures and room photos: TOP Window Covering. Screens and monitors shift colour: judge on the sample.
Palermo Blackout White Backing in TOP's room photos
TOP's own photography of the fabric on a window, to show the colour and the weave. These are not Exotic Shades installations.
Every Palermo Blackout White Backing colourway, with TOP's published figures
| Swatch | Colour | Item | Tv | Ts | Rs | As | Tuv |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Gray | 184003 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Light Gray | 184002 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 30 | 0 | |
| Dark Gray | 184004 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| White | 184001 | - | - | - | - | - |
Tv = visible light transmitted, Ts = solar energy transmitted, Rs = solar energy reflected, As = solar energy absorbed, Tuv = UV transmitted, in percent for the fabric alone, as published on TOP's datasheet; a dash means TOP publishes no figure for that colour. We bring TOP samples of the colours you shortlist to the consultation.
Where Palermo Blackout White Backing works here
On a Miami or Sunny Isles condo with gray glass and white walls, Palermo in Light Gray or Mid Gray is a simple bedroom specification: one 118-inch shade per slider, white at the glass for the association, and a documented heat figure in Light Gray. TOP rates its light-fastness at 6-7, among its best. We confirm the pocket depth before ordering a tall drop.
Palermo Transparent is the same four grays on the same 300 cm roll as a see-through fabric, for the rooms and the hours that should keep the view.
Palermo Blackout White Backing: frequently asked
Can it pair with Palermo Transparent?
Yes. Palermo Transparent has the same four colour names on the same 300 cm roll, so on a dual roller it would hang in front for a softened view by day with this blackout behind for the night. Hold the two samples together first: a see-through weave and a coated blackout never read quite the same on the window.
Which colour keeps a west room coolest?
TOP publishes the figure for Light Gray only: 70% solar reflectance with nothing transmitted. All four share the white back that faces the glass, but we do not attach that number to White, Mid Gray or Dark Gray until TOP publishes theirs. If the heat figure has to appear in a specification, Light Gray is the colour to choose.
How wide can a roller shade in TOP Palermo Blackout White Backing be?
TOP makes Palermo Blackout White Backing in a 300 cm (118 in) roll. The roll width is the widest single piece we can cut, so one roller shade can be made a little under 118 inches wide. A seam in a blackout shows as a line of light, so wider openings get two shades side by side, set to move together. We confirm the exact limit for the operating system when we measure.
Which shades can be made in Palermo Blackout White Backing?
Palermo Blackout White Backing is a roller shade fabric. We buy it from TOP Window Covering by the roll and make the shades ourselves in our Fort Lauderdale workroom: cut square, finished with a weighted hem bar and fitted to a Lutron, Somfy or Crestron motor or a manual chain, then installed by our own team from Miami to Palm Beach.
Can I see Palermo Blackout White Backing samples before ordering?
Yes. Shortlist the colours here and we bring TOP samples of them to the in-home consultation, so you can hold them against your own glass in your own light. Our Fort Lauderdale workroom (4539 Powerline Rd, by appointment) and Miami Beach showroom (500 South Pointe Dr #150) have motorized shades running if you want to see one move.
Compare Palermo Blackout White Backing with
Roma Blackout White Backing
The heaviest blackout in TOP's roller line, in seven neutrals with a visible weave
Riva Blackout White Backing
The thinnest blackout in TOP's roller line, for tall windows and tight pockets
Garda Blackout
Five woven neutrals on a 118-inch blackout roll, for dry rooms only
Milan Blackout White Backing
Five plain neutrals in a thick white-backed blackout, 110 inches wide
Sorrento Blackout White Backing
Nineteen colours inside, a white back to the street, 110 inches wide
Orient Blackout White Backing
A thin white-backed blackout for bedrooms and nurseries, in 17 colours
TOP Palermo Blackout White Backing roller shades in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
We buy Palermo Blackout White Backing from TOP Window Covering, make the roller shades in our Fort Lauderdale workroom and install them with our own team from Miami to Palm Beach. 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 how a shade moves.
See Palermo Blackout White Backing in your own light
Book a complimentary in-home consultation. Shortlist the colours you like and we bring the TOP samples, demo motors, and honest answers about light, privacy and what your windows need.