Weights Hold Work in Place
R.H. Rowley Co., Gastonia, NC, now offers worktable weights. The easy-to-use table weights come in three sizes: small (3.5 pounds), medium (seven pounds) and large (10.5 pounds). These new weights are ideal for holding fabric in place as they have felt on the bottom to keep them in position. More information and a free catalog are available.
Cut, Punch Slats Automatically
The Sani 3500 fully automatic slat cutting and punching machine from Cooper Fabricator Components, Sturgis, MI, features computerized set-up of the lifting and punching station. The 3500 also will receive bar coding.
Cornices Light Up Room
Luminel® Lighted Cornices from Decotex 2000, Cohoes, NY, are custom architectural cornices integrated with energy-efficient lighting fixtures to provide a unique design approach to window top treatments and accent, area or task lighting. Available in custom coverings and lengths, various cornice profiles and optional lighting configurations. Lightweight and easy to install.
Imported, Wide Tergal Sheers
Sheer Elegance from Decrotex, Inc., Richmond Hill, NY, is an innovative and complete collection of tergal sheers now available in the United States. As an exclusive importer of 118-inch sheer fabrics, Decrotex began distribution of this exciting new collection in September.
Set Blinds in Motion
Somfy Systems, Inc., Cranbury, NJ, now offers a new horizontal blinds brochure. "Horizontal Blinds In Motion" describes Somfy's LV35, V26 and LS40 motor solutions including lift capacity and operator selection charts as they relate to one- and two-inch blinds. Full-color illustrations depict AC and DC motor solutions in combination.
Blinds Eliminate Sunspots
Classico Window Covering Corp., Fairfield, NJ, offers Lightlines[TM] mini-blinds from Hunter Douglas. These blinds eliminate sunspots and block 99 percent of visible light by hiding the rout holes.
Informative Flyer Puts It in Writing
ADO, Spartanburg, SC, has produced and illustrated an informative flyer that is a written five-year guarantee of dimensional stability, machine washability and colorfastness of all its fabrics. The flyer tells users the easiest way to launder the draperies, and warns that the damp draperies should be allowed to dry at the windows rather than in a dryer.
Genuine Oak, Cherry Wood Slats
American Wood Finishers, Inc., Tucker, GA, presents genuine oak and genuine cherry two-inch slats. The slats are natural wood products that are adaptable to wood blind fabrication. This product was awarded Most Innovative Overall Design for wood products by the Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA) earlier this year.
Tracks and Rods in Bulk
Blind tracks and tilt rods from Eastern Metal Supply, Inc., Charlotte, NC, are offered in bulk packages with a stock length program available for fabricators. Items are packaged for convenient delivery from warehouses in North Carolina and Florida.
Embossed, Laminated Louvers
Quality conventional-style louvers from Quadra Plast Inc., Sainte Therese, Quebec, Canada, are offered in high-end designs and embossed or laminated. New colors include shades of blue, hunter green and bronze. Other distinctive and innovative products also are offered throughout North America.
Custom Quilting with Ease
Gammill Quilting Machine, West Plains, MO, offers custom quilting machines featuring electronic two-station needle positioner, style M double capacity bobbin and a built-on automatic bobbin winder. Its new Cam-Guide makes perfectly straight diagonal seams with ease.
Traversing Wood Rods Offered
P.J. Hamilton Co., South Orleans, MA, offers wood traverse rods in custom lengths. Sections can be spliced up to 24 feet. Hard, clear wood pulley or baton drawn options are available. Finials, brackets and track come all assembled for 1 3/8- or two-inch rods.
Easy Decorating Menagerie
The Noah's Ark Collection from Claesson, a Conso Co., Union, SC, provides quick and easy decorating with whimsical, good natured animals. These decorating accessories may be used as scarfholders, tiebacks, rod rests or towel holders. They encourage decorating ideas limited only by your
Natural Wood Window Alternates
Blue Ribbon Woven Woods from Tentina Window Fashions, Inc., Lindenhurst, NY, are the natural alternative in window treatments. A variety of patterns and colors make woven woods one of the most versatile window treatments available. Each is expertly hand-crafted.
One Wand Controls Vanes
Allied/All-Teck introduces the LASERlite Syncromatic vertical headrail, which eliminates the hazards of exposed cord and chain loops and is entirely safe. The system is easy to operate as both the traversing of the vanes and the rotation is controlled by the same wand. There is no need to walk the distance of the blind to traverse the vanes, the Syncromatic
operates from a stationary position.
Custom Blinds Quick Shipped
Custom Craft Window Fashions, Cerritos, CA, introduces its 72-hour Quick Ship custom-made blind program. Its fashionable custom-made products will be shipped within 72 hours from the day they are ordered.
Textured Fabrics for Shadings
Previously available in the original soft fabric vane and a room-darkening vane, Silhouette® window shadings from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Broomfield, CO, now come in two textured fabrics that add a subtle dimension, while still offering the same privacy and light control options and easy maintenance. Toujours[TM] is a linen weave texture in six colors, Naturelle[TM] is a crinkle-textured woven fabric available in 12 earth tones.
Beautiful, Strong Resin Shutters
Seven Day Shutters, Inc., Barrie, Ontario, Canada, presents beautiful, versatile and durable shutters constructed of Resin-Tech 2000, an exterior grade polyvinyl-chloride resin that makes them stronger. Shutters can be built to suit most any windows including slide-by, double-hung, casement or fixed glass. They're available in three shades of white in a lustrous semigloss finish to fit into traditional and contemporary room settings.
Complete Shutter Program
The explosive growth of the shutter market means designers need to focus on suppliers capable of delivering a complete program and a profitable partnership. Lafayette Venetian Blind, Inc., West Lafayette, IN, offers more than 50 finishes, custom color matching, five louver widths and a choice of movable or fixed, horizontal or vertical louvers in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Raised panels, fabric frames, combination shutters and dressing screens also are available. Customer service
is offered from dawn to
midnight.
Vertical Carrier Systems
Two eight-prong carrier systems, the mini (A-604) and scissors (A-804), now are in production from A.C.S. Inc., Irwindale, CA. Also available are three-prong scissors and four-prong self-ALIGNing systems and end controls.
Inspect, Measure, Cut Fabric
The Junior Inspection/ Measuring and Cutting Machine from Creative Engineering & Mfg. Corp., Crestwood, KY, is available as a 60- and 72-inch wide machine. It features a green, black, blue and beige coloration and a front bar stacker. The machine measures and rewinds automatically at the flip of a switch and cuts square on the thread
or pattern.
Quality Blinds at Factory Prices
Blind Buster Inc., Dallas, TX, manufactures name brand quality custom blinds at low factory-direct prices with fast turnaround and responsive customer service. Product information and free sample kits are available.
Fire-safe Vinyl Shutters
Bombay Shutters, Inc., Winter Garden, FL, provides an alternative to wood shutters. The Vinylbilt shutter system features durable and maintenance-free Polyresin3®, which is waterproof, environmentally friendly and provides self-extinguishing fire safety characteristics. The simple-to-install shutters come in permanent finishes and with a patented tilt bar locking mechanism.
Decorative Accessories
Silverado Service Co., Calistoga, CA, offers a host of decorative accessories. Wood tassels, cord locks and pulleys are featured.
Display Holds Samples and More
The Blind Display from A Better Blind, Miami, FL, can be attached to a wall or left freestanding. The 63- by 96- by four-inch display contains one mini-, wood, vinyl and vertical blind sample and four toppers. Also included are two-inch vinyl samples, fabric samples, installation instructions and order forms.
Dry Steam for Faster Ironing
Pollyanna commercial boiler irons from Kwik-affix Products, Jacksonville, FL, provide high temperature dry steam to soften fibers from the inside instead of damaging fabric through contact with heat. Spitting also is eliminated. The irons feature stainless steel boilers for use with tap water, protective Teflon® shoes and non-corrosive housings. Tabletop, movable stand and sus-pended overhead models are available.
Turn Blinds into Art
Blind Art, Santa Rosa, CA, allows customers to custom-design horizontal or vertical binds with photographic images. State-of-the-art digital technology turns the subject matter (photograph, drawing, slide or negative) into an image that can be transferred onto any aluminum or vinyl blind including one- or two-inch mini-blinds.
Three Collections Featured in Fall
R & M Coco Designs, Cape Girardeau, MO, introduces its fall 1996 line of fabrics for all occasions. The large offering features three powerful premier collections: The Baltics, Crystal Palace (shown) and Natural Experience. The
R & M line consists of nine additional well rounded collections of prints, jacquards and jacquard prints, solids, sheers and linings.
Cubical Curtains with Mesh
Tana-Tex Inc., Chicago, IL, presents its reasonably priced, high quality Point-Of-View collection of cubicle fabrics with integral mesh. The curtains are under warranty for five years and feature upholstery quality FR Trevira yarn so the fabrics won't shrink, tear, fade or pill. Draperies, bedspreads and shower curtains also are available.
Hardware with Decorator Looks
Montgomery Designs, San Francisco, CA, introduces new decorative looks from its metal furniture and drapery hardware collections. The selection features bamboo clustered rods with brass wraps, plus a variety of attractive tiebacks, custom valances and finials.
Ring Feeder Speeds Sewing
Rasi Corp., Fitzwilliam, NH, presents the Ring-Aid 24, a pneumatic feeder of plastic and metal rings for sewing machines. This economical, trouble-free ring feeder has a two-year warranty. It delivers the ring to the sewer clamp as soon as the previous one has been sewn. It is user friendly and simple to operate and maintain.
Colorful, Lighted Round Rods
Glides, Phoenix, AZ, presents its Roller Rod family of patented traverse systems. Three models are offered in 15 colors with seven sets of color-coordinated parts, plus a luminous rod cap with a neon light available in seven colors. Mill finish rods can be painted any color. All systems are packaged in various lengths.
Portable Dry Cleaning Machine
On-Site Drapery Cleaning, Hayden Lake, ID, introduces its patented and portable dry cleaning machine that safely cleans fabric verticals and all drapery fabrics without removing them from the window. A guarantee against shrinkage or damage is offered.
Shutters Feature Popular Style
The Southwestern from Shutters International, Chatsworth, CA, is available with a variety of louvers and sizes. The shutters feature knotty pine wood with a bevel glass panel insert.
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