Custom Shade Weave

Our Pergola Shade Weaves are made up of 2 ft wide panels, cut from our high-quality Commercial Grade Light fabric. These panels can run as long as you desire, but are always and only produced in 2 ft widths. This allows you to evenly break up spaces which would leave you with a near perfect checkered-style shade covering. You can decide how many cross beams you weave through, whether you weave through each cross beam or every second cross beam - we leave that up to you! We also have various methods of calculating the appropriate length that your finished weave needs to be. One of the easiest methods is: 

• Anchor a string to the one end of your pergola (or structure that you are installing the Shade Weave into). Anchor the end of the string with a small screw to hold it in place.
• Weave your piece of string through the cross beams as you desire.
• Ensuring the string is pulled taut - anchor the piece of string to the other end of your pergola or structure.
• Measure the length of this string - this will be the length of your Pergola Shade Weave. We already know the width will be 2 ft each. 

With Roman Shades, we provide you with all the tensioning as well as anchoring hardware. This means your system is ready-to-fly when it arrives at your door. The anchoring hardware that is provided to you are our welded screw eyes (M8xM80). These screw eyes have a 3” thread on them - which means you need at least 3” of substance to anchor the entire screw eye in. Add an extra inch to that if you’d like the screw eye to sit flush against the anchoring point.

Absolutely! You can choose between two of our vibrant and colourful selection of Commercial Grade Light fabrics in order to complete your Pergola Shade Weave concept, or, you can let it be and cover your pergola structure with a single colour.

The width of the panels that make up the length of our Roman Shades are produced in 2 ft widths - as a standard. We can add as many of these 2 ft in order to make up the desired length of Roman Shade. Because of this, you can expect to have about 8” of droop in your Roman Shades. If you have an extra panel in your system (meaning you’ve installed a 12’ Roman Shade in a 10 ft space) you can expect to have slightly more droop - around 10”.

It certainly is ideal to install the perimeter cabling system of our Roman Shades to be installed in a square formation - albeit it perfectly square or rectangular. You can install this square system in an area that is not perfectly square but you should then expect there to be gaps between the cabling system and the structure in which you’re wishing to install it. We don’t recommend this method. If you have an orthodox space, rather have a conversation with one of our Shade Architects and make use of our free consultation service.