Selecting the Right Fabric

How do you choose the right fabric type for your roller shades? Your 3-step process for choosing the right fabric!

Step 1. Choose your Fabric Type

Blackout Fabric

  • Blocks all light coming through fabric (does not include light gaps)
  • Provides daytime and nighttime privacy

Light Filtering Fabric

  • Allows light flow into the space- no view out
  • Provides daytime and nighttime privacy (shadows may be seen at night)

Solar Screen Fabric

  • Maintains view and open feeling to the outside, while reducing heat and glare
  • Provides daytime privacy only

Step 2: Choose your Fabric Color

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Light-colored fabrics

Light-colored fabrics provide more heat reduction. Light-colored solar screen fabrics will reduce heat AND diffuse interior light.

Dark-colored fabrics

Dark-colored solar screen fabrics provide more glare reduction and better view-through. Dark-colored translucent fabrics reduce light entering the room.

Step 3: Choose your Solar Screen Fabric Density

If choosing a Solar Screen fabric, you will need to choose a density.

3% open white
3% open white
3% open black
3% open black
5% open white
5% open white
5% open black
5% open black

3% fabric (more dense)

Fabrics with 3% openness block 97% of UV and harmful rays.

5% fabric (more open)

Fabrics with 5% openness block 95% of UV and harmful rays.

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