How to beautifully hang hanging thread curtains

Thread curtains are a convenient and beautiful way to change the interior, decorate or divide a room into zones. However, it is not as simple as it seems. It is important to choose curtains that match the design, color, and texture. You need to achieve a good combination and compositional harmony among all the items in your home or room.

It is also important to think about how to beautifully hang thread curtains in your room, even at the stage of purchasing them. Not all thread curtains are equally easy to install. You may encounter difficulties when attaching threads to a door, window, arched opening, staircase or ceiling if you want to functionally divide the room using muslin.

Types of curtains made from hanging elements and their functionality

All curtains made from hanging elements are similar in one thing: they are orderly rows of homogeneous material, most often these are threads decorated with something, or just threads in a beautiful color, without decorations. Before you start making your choice, check out the design options:

Simple thread curtain, synthetic, polyester;
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Fluffy threads, fringe, voluminous;
3. Threads with beads;
4. Threads with wooden elements;
Bamboo on threads, reed;

Some types of filament curtains limit us in the scope of application, such as bamboo curtains, which are intended for doors, or imitation of such. The scope of application of other curtains has no restrictions - this applies to the basic thread curtain. It is especially beautiful to hang not just one muslin, but several. This way you can combine them and it looks more natural.

You can get ideas for decorating muslin from interior design specialists, or from home craftsmen who willingly show off their cozy creations.

Creating a lambrequin from a cord on a non-woven base

The option of creating a lambrequin from wire and cord is not the only one; this product can also be made without using pliers. In this case, wire and glue are removed from the list of necessary materials, and non-woven fabric, a thick fabric base and an iron are added.

A sketch of the finished product is created or copied.
The drawing is transferred to large format paper.
A bandeau (a dense fabric base) is placed on a table or other flat and hard surface, which must be steamed until the folds and creases are completely eliminated.
Non-woven fabric is spread on the bandeau.
A sketch of the lambrequin is transferred onto the non-woven fabric using tracing paper or projection.
Furniture cord is laid out. The layout is strictly in accordance with the sketch. To ensure that the cord does not leave its place, it can be pinned with pins.
The workpiece is carefully ironed and steamed with an iron, then remains under pressure for some time. This will help the base and cord stick tightly to each other.
Using a sharp utility knife or a thin soldering iron, cut off the excess base and interlining and remove the pins.
An adhesive tape is attached to the reverse side of the finished accessory, with the help of which the lambrequin will be attached to the cornice.

It should be remembered that with this manufacturing method you cannot use very thick or large-diameter furniture cord, otherwise the product may become deformed over time.

Advantages of thread curtains

Advantages

In terms of aesthetics and functionality, thread curtains deserve almost 10 points out of 10 . Kisey, let's face it, is not exactly a curtain. She blocks the room, most likely only on a psycho-emotional level. We seem to be fenced off, but we can clearly see what is happening behind the curtain of hanging threads.

At the same time, with a curtain made of threads it is somehow more comfortable, there is a feeling of an intimate, chamber atmosphere. At the same time, the room is not divided roughly in half, or into zones, as it could be when installing a monolithic partition.

If this curtain is good in itself, sparkling with pebbles or transparent beads - even better, there is something for the eye to linger on. Nice beads can be touched and rattled. Both adults and children love this pleasure. The curtain made of beads in this case is that rare case when a product with a beautiful texture is not a trifle, but a completely practical thing that you won’t want to hide in the pantry in six months.

The design of curtains made of threads, beads, glass and wood can be truly beautiful and incomparable. Your task is only to hang them correctly and drape them beautifully.

What are the disadvantages?

They are not completely curtains and do not block views;
They let in too much light;
Requires careful, special washing;
They are an object of particular interest from domestic animals;
For a good decorative effect, you need to use several curtains.

Purpose of the premises

Carved drapery always looks very impressive. She can decorate any room and give it a romantic, sophisticated look. The use of such a decorative element can completely change the style of the interior, giving it a touch of aristocracy.

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Various materials and colors

Hanging curtains can be made from a variety of materials. Here is a list of the most common:

Viscose;
Polyester;
Linen;
Wool;
Lyko;
Bugles;
Tree.

Of course, adherents of natural materials would like to see in their home only what is given by nature itself, and for this reason they would prefer flax, wool or bast. This is possible, especially for those people who have already had experience caring for such fabrics. to select similar materials. you need to have a certain way of life.

We strongly advise you to consider purchasing viscose curtains. If you place them in the kitchen, bathroom, or on the balcony, you can rest assured that the curtains will not deteriorate from moisture and will not be susceptible to rot or mold. Thus, a house, a bathhouse, a sauna can also be safely decorated with muslin, with your own hands.

Openwork lambrequins

Recently, designers have begun to approach window design with particular passion. It is no longer enough just to hang beautiful curtains; you need to decorate the window on a turnkey basis, and the use of lambrequins plays an important role in this.

Services for creating openwork bandeaus have become a popular feature of curtain salons. These types of accessories can be made using different techniques from different materials.

Decorative strip. This lambrequin can be hard or soft. It is sold ready-made and attached directly to the cornice. The soft plank is sold by the molding. In most stores, the buyer will cut off exactly as much as he needs. This type of lambrequin is glued to the cornice thanks to its own adhesive base.
Figured lambrequin. Such a lambrequin can be made of fabric, cord, rope, and so on. The design and appearance of the finished product can only be limited by the designer’s imagination.

It is quite possible to make a figured bandeau with your own hands. How to make an openwork lambrequin from a cord will be discussed later in this article.

How to fasten muslin curtains to a cornice

The most convenient way is to attach thread curtains to tubular or profile curtain rods.

For this purpose, in the upper part of the curtains there is a supply of woven threads, in the form of fabric, up to 10 cm . This strip of fabric in the upper part can be modified at your discretion and prepared for mounting on the cornice. But most often the strip is a tube of material, folded and stitched in half. In other words, the curtains already have a ready-made drawstring, which, of course, simplifies the task of attaching thread curtains to the cornice.

There are several ways to hang threads on a cornice:

Insert the tubular curtain rod into the drawstring

If you don’t have a drawstring, we’ll tell you how to make one yourself. You need to fold the top edge of the curtains, fold it in half, and stitch along the bottom edge. You need to sew a tube into which you can insert the cornice pipe. Consider the diameter of the pipe, and leave a margin of 1.5 - 2 cm so that the curtain slides easily along the pipe. A too tight butt fit is not only unsightly, but also makes it difficult for the curtains to move.

Hang curtains on hooks using curtain tape

This method will work if the edge is already folded, but you want to hang the curtains in a different way than just threading a pipe through them. So, sew the curtain tape along the upper edge of the thread curtain, and attach hooks, ordinary plastic hooks, at equal distances. Next, you need to attach these hooks to the rings that come with the tubular curtain.

Attention! In all cases, to hide the plastic hook, you can use a trick - the curtain tape should be sewn on at a distance of 1-3 cm . The curtain tape has strips of fabric stitched with a dotted line, by which you need to hang the curtain on hooks. Attach the hook in advance and check how much you need to step back from the edge so that the hook on the curtains is not visible.

Hang curtains on opaque curtain tape with pleats

Let's classify this type of curtain tape as a special category. This wide ribbon, sewn to muslin curtains, will show through a little on the front side. But she has an undeniable advantage. Thanks to the presence of special paper clips, it is possible to form perfectly even, beautiful folds on it.

Hang the curtain with clothespins

Complete with curtains, both tubular and profile, crochet hooks . Despite the funny name, this is not a Soviet decorative element, and most often such hooks and clothespins look very stylish. Attach the clothespins directly to the edge of the curtain, but always at exactly the same distance so that the top of the curtain looks perfect.

Hang with Velcro

Ordinary Velcro, widely used in children's and adult clothing, is increasingly used in interior decoration. In our case, you can sew a Velcro strip onto the curtains, and attach its second, contact sticky part to the curtains using pencil glue, or even double-sided tape. There are profile cornices on sale with a Velcro strip already sewn on, or you can attach it yourself using glue.

You can also glue the strip onto a tubular cornice, if this is the only possible option, which allows for your own laziness.

The disadvantages of this method are that the curtain will be rigidly fixed and motionless.

Creating a lambrequin from cord and wire

The first step is to collect all the tools necessary to complete the job. To create a bandeau from cord and wire you will need:

Scissors
Knife
Glue gun
Pliers
Wire
Furniture cord
Sheet of paper and pencil
Large format paper
Markers of different colors
Thin line
A needle with a large eye.

The algorithm for performing the work is as follows.

Measure the width and height of the windows, determine the size of the future accessory.
You need to find a ready-made drawing or draw yourself what the finished lambrequin should look like. It is important to think through every nuance and bend, not to leave unthought-out places, since it will be difficult to finish drawing as you go along on a large scale.
Transfer the sketch to large format paper. We make a life-size drawing in accordance with the window dimensions obtained in step 1. If several types of furniture cord are used in the manufacture of a lambrequin, then they should also be marked in different colors in the figure so as not to get confused later.
We take the furniture cord and wrap it around the wire so that the bends of the cord through the wire are not visible from the front side of the product. In all other places, the cord is attached to the wire with a glue gun.
We lay the workpiece on the drawing and begin to bend the cord with wire in accordance with the sketch. In places where it would be difficult to manually shape the cord, you can use pliers.
After all the openwork elements are completed, we begin to sew together the places where one element touches another. These places are sewn together using fishing line or the same wire firmly but carefully so as not to damage the appearance of the product.
The openwork lambrequin made of wire and cord is ready. All that remains is to attach it to the cornice.

Special methods borrowed from ordinary curtains

All manipulations with eyelets

We fix them in the upper part, as on ordinary curtains, and string them onto the cornice. It looks interesting, adds some stability and solidity to the muslin. Looks interesting, don’t you think? Go to the article curtains with grommets.

Ribbons, or self-sewn patches

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Lambrequins

For especially skillful, creative people, prone to expressing themselves brightly. Rigid figured lambrequins can become an original design for the top part of muslin curtains. Through the holes in them, stylized patterns, you can pass muslin threads, and thereby solve the problem of attaching thread curtains to surfaces where this is not provided. A lambrequin for a kitchen should be special, almost completely different from a lambrequin for a living room.

This way you can design a window or doorway, including in the shape of an arch. In addition, you can hide the costs of repairs under decorative elements.

How everything is built

The upper part is made of solid fabric braid 15 cm wide; threads woven in a special way “come out” of the braid. Thanks to this weaving method, they can be cut to the desired length with ordinary scissors without further processing. And the wide braid allows you to use any kind of cornice without difficulty and even use eyelets or regular rings.

How to beautifully hang thread curtains on an arch or doorway

Thread curtains can also be hung on doorways as an alternative to doors and a cheaper way to refine the interior and visually separate zones in the apartment.

Methods for attaching muslin to a doorway:

Special flexible cornices, these are German cornices that take the shape of a round arch. They need to be attached to a drawstring or Velcro tape;
Velcro adhesive tape;
A straight cornice located horizontally under the arc of the arch. This method is suitable for high arched windows, when the arched part of the arch remains uncovered. It looks asymmetrical and interesting, in the spirit of modern trends.

For a window or doorway, both a simple pipe cornice and a profile one are suitable. To decorate the stairs with curtains, we proceed in the same way. For high windows, we hang thread curtains on a straight cornice, or curved, if this is more suitable. The entrance to the stairs can be hidden by blocking the flight of stairs with a curtain. At the same time, we attach the curtains to the flight of stairs at the top.

Decorative elements for decorating muslin curtains

Once the curtains are secured to the curtain rod, you can add a beautiful element to your curtain.

Decorations:

for example, it could be clothespins with flowers - it looks beautiful and delicate;
tiebacks and clips, in the form of hairpins, brooches;
these can be lambrequins, with slits through which you pass the tail of the muslin curtain. All decorations used for fabric curtains are also suitable for these curtains.

Everything has its roots

The interior with such curtains resembles an oriental fairy tale. No surprise! After all, muslins have only now become popular in Europe and Russia, but in the East they have long been popular. They were popular in the 70s, and now they are back again, albeit with some modifications. Not only varieties of decorative jewelry appeared, but also a variety of threads of different colors, intertwined with metal threads or beads. Their varieties are shown in the photo, but this is not the ultimate dream.

Kissey curtains in the kitchen

The kitchen is a very suitable place for muslin curtains! Let's list the obvious reasons why this is so:

Kisey allows maximum light transmission, which is so necessary in the kitchen for coziness and comfort.
Thread curtains cannot interfere with movement - you can move them to the sides, pin them up beautifully with tiebacks, and use them on a window, balcony, or sill. What is hidden behind the threads. Maximum access and lighting in the kitchen interior.
Curtains do not require maintenance; it is almost impossible to put a spot on the muslin that is noticeable from afar.
Kisey goes well with light kitchen curtains, with any textiles, as it plays the role of an addition, a companion very well.

Caring for lambrequins

The location of the product and the features of its creation classify a cord lambrequin as a product that is difficult to wash and clean.

All possible cleaning comes down to wiping the product with a wet cloth soaked in washing powder and then vacuuming.

In case of severe contamination, the housewife will have to contact a cleaning agency that cleans such products at home.

Making an openwork lambrequin is quite a painstaking job. She will require perseverance and attention from the owner. However, the result will be the most worthy reward for such hard work. Not a single window accessory, purchased even in the most expensive salon, will look as stylish, original and appropriate as a DIY bandeau.

Photo of muslin curtains in the interior

White interior, muslin lies on the floor

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Above such a large and almost square opening, the muslin on the curtain looks boring. But in any case, it's better than without it.

Blue muslin in the mermaid's bedroom

The case when muslin is a partition

Bugle curtains for the room of a young princess

Simple geometry. straight lines of muslin do not violate the laconic harmony of minimalism

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Here's what it looks like up close. And no curtains that can be ruined by a greasy stain

Everything is as expected. Designer's hand

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Everything would look worse here if it weren’t for the white backing along the contour of the opening

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Design

It is recommended to decorate the window opening with thread curtains and tulle in rooms that do not require strong shading. It could be:

kitchen;
dining room;
living room;
children's;
study;
hall in a cafe or restaurant.

This combination of translucent, but different in texture curtains looks especially relevant on windows facing a balcony, loggia or veranda.

It is quite natural that the principles of interior design are not dogma. In cases where they do not correspond to your worldview, it is not forbidden to violate them. Therefore, if you do not like to fall asleep in complete darkness, and your bedroom is on a high floor or its windows overlook a spacious, glazed loggia, thread curtains in combination with tulle will be quite appropriate.

Color palette of muslin curtains

The easiest way to choose the color and type of curtains for your interior is to find photos of them on the Internet and compare them with the design of the room in which you presumably want to hang the curtains and evaluate their suitability. Now you can choose the color of the curtain, this is more difficult than choosing the shape or length of the curtain, since the final result depends on this.

There are several options for the color palette of muslin curtains:

Single-color curtains: bright, pastel and dull, matte, shiny and glossy.

Two-color curtains: there are models of both contrasting colors and those with a transition from one to another.

Advantages of using thread curtains

Thread curtains can be hung on the kitchen window if you want to achieve the following effects in the room:

For large dining rooms, this way you can zoning the space, dividing it into a part where food is prepared and an area where eating is planned.
In sunny rooms where the sun's rays shine brightly, this way you can protect the space from excess lighting.
But, when planning to decorate the interior of the room in this way, it is necessary to make a note about the presence of pets. Remember that cats and dogs can start playing with muslin, thereby quickly rendering it unusable.