Imagine an inviting space finished with the ultimate soft touch, heritage drapes. Crafted with care, our drapes are ideal for any lovers of Morris & Co. patterns. They’re easy to hang within your home and offer perfectly presented hand-finished designs sent straight to your door.
Once your lovingly crafted drapes have arrived, it’s time to envelope your windows with your chosen drapes and we’re on hand to help every step of the way.
Our drapes can have a variety of different headers, such as eyelet, pencil pleat or gathered and this not only changes their finished appearance, but alters the approach on how to hang them correctly.
In order for your drapes to delicately touch your window sills or extend all the way to the floor, we’ve curated a guide on how to hang drapes with every header in mind.
How to hang tape headed drapes (pencil pleat & gathered drapes)
1. Measure the width of your rod or track that the drapes have to cover. If you have two drapes across one window, each drape needs to draw across half of this width.
2. Gather up the heading to this width, using the loose ends of the gathering strings on the edge of the curtain. Leave roughly 5cm free so there’s some give within your drapes.
3. Gently work the gathers along the string, without applying too much pressure. Once you have gathered your curtain to the right width, tie the strings together in a bow, so it’s easy to undo them again if needed.
4. Even out the gathers so they’re evenly distributed across the width of your rod or track, then tie them off, wrap them into a tidy coil and tuck them into the inside pocket of the tape.
Take your hooks and place one in the tape at the end of each curtain, then evenly space out the remaining hooks based on how many rings or gliders you have to work with.
6. If you have a track, remember to allow for the end stops when positioning your hooks too.
7. Now you’re ready to attach your hooks to the rings on your drapes.
How to hang hand headed drapes (pinch pleat & goblet pleat)
1. Start by measuring the distance between the eye of the rod ring to the required hem position.
2. Carefully insert a pin hook into the back of each pleat. Make sure they don’t sit under the stitching, but are secured into the stiff heading buckram.
3. Place an extra pink hook about 2cm from the both the leading and return edge of each curtain. Thread them into the buckram, avoiding damaging the stitching or yourself with the sharp pin hook.
4. After fixing a few pin-hooks in place, glance over the placement and check the length of your drapes. An easy way to do this is to measure the distance, or attach the curtain onto the rod rings or gliders.
5. Place hooks through the rod rings or gliders of the track and you’re ready to hang your new drapes.
How to hang eyelet or tab top drapes
These are our simplest drapes to hang. Simply thread the eyelet or tabs onto the rod, making sure that the edges of them points towards the window, rather than the room.
Finishing touches
Spend some time gently arranging the drapes to stack them. Secure the strings, and let your beautiful heritage drapes hang in the window for 24 hours before removing the ties.
Don’t forget to tag us on socials with your carefully created drapes! We love nothing more than seeing our heritage patterns standing proudly within your home.
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