Hard lambrequin with your own hands. Patterns of hard lambrequins

Do you dream of new curtains made by yourself? Can not choose a model? Do you need to close the elements of fastening the curtains to the cornice or the defects of the window opening? Sew tight lambrequin. Make it real at home. The necessary materials are available, and the technology is not that complicated. It can even be mastered by a newcomer.

Types of lambrequins. Advantages of hard

There are several variants of this decorative element of curtains:

• plain;
• hard;
• soft;
• combined.

The first is a strip of fabric gathered in folds on the curtain tape or manually. Hard lambrequin has a fabric front side and a dense nonwoven or inner part.

Soft consists of a certain number of successively complex elements with folds - svagov, de jabot, kokilye. Combined - a combination of the two previous options.

The advantage of hard lambrequin is that with a simple tailoring technology, a very beautiful, spectacular decorative product is obtained. This effect is obtained due to the ability to make a complex figure bottom, which will be fixed.

What is a bando

Hard lambrequin with its own hands is made on the basis of a dense non-woven material. You can use the following:

• Bando;
• Non-woven fabric;
• Doublerine;
• Proclam;
• Wooden frame.

The first one is the best. Bando is self-adhesive, hot-melt, with one or two adhesive sides. Can differ in density. It's convenient and easy to work with. Compared with the wooden frame has a small weight, and the lambrequin is easily attached to the cornice with a conventional Velcro tape.

How to sew hard lambrequin

So, you decided to decorate your interior with this decorative element. The order of work will be as follows:

1. Make the basic measurements.
2. Draw a diagram of what you want to see.
3. Prepare the materials in the required quantity.
4. Carry out a pattern on paper and cut it out.
5. Put it on the bando, circle without allowances and cut.
6. Apply a pattern of non-woven material with the adhesive side of the fabric inside, which is best fixed to the table or ironing board. On top leave the allowance equal to 2cm, from all the others it is enough 1,5cm. For the best sizing it is necessary to turn the product and walk through the iron on the front side.
7. Make a lining for the bando from the same fabric. To do this, fold the flap face-down inwards so that the fold line passes no closer than 5 mm to the protruding element of the lower edge.
8. Kneel both layers with pins on the allowances, so as not to damage the adhesive backing.
9. Stitch the side seams and the bottom edge 3 mm from the bando. The value depends on the thickness of the nonwoven material. Do not overtight the upper edge.
10. Cut off excess fabric, leaving to the seam from 0.5 to 1cm.
11. On arched parts, carefully cut with scissors, cut the corners so as not to damage the stitch.
12. Turn the product over the top edge to the front.
13. Follow the finishing line along the contour.
14. Allow upper edges to be inward.
15. From the back side of the lambrequin, sew a tape with Velcro, the mating part of which is glued to the cornice.

After completing all the steps, you can make a beautiful hard lambrequin (photo above) of any shape.

Product Scheme

Before you start to sew or even make a pattern, draw, and better draw a scale scheme of your curtains with a hard lambrequin. It will allow you to see how the element will look, and also help when building a template by size.

The scheme is best done in a scale of 1:10, when 1cm on the sheet you will have 10cm real. In this case, when constructing a pattern, you can easily find out the length of any element.

Patterns: do yourself and use ready-made

To sew a hard lambrequin with your own hands, you will need a template, which will be cut out details from the bando.

If you are going to perform a simple-shaped lambrequin, it is easier to build a pattern yourself on a scale of 1: 1. Use ready-made options makes sense in the case of repetitions of some module or a very complex asymmetric form, which, due to lack of skills, it will not be possible to draw by yourself.

If you decide to make a pattern with your own hands, prepare the following materials:

• A long strip of paper, corresponding to the dimensions of lambrequin. You can use unnecessary wallpaper, graph paper, Whatman, glue the format from office paper to a printer or newspapers. The latter option is not very good, since the paper is too thin, and the template will have to outline the contour of the product on the bando.
• pencil;
• Ruler;
• Gon;
• Compasses, if you have arcs or semicircles;
• Scissors or a knife.

To build a pattern it is necessary so:

1. Draw a rectangle corresponding to the maximum dimensions of the lambrequin in width and height, respectively.
2. Construct an axis of symmetry if the form is such.
3. From the executed central line, put the right distances to the left and right and build the figures.

If you previously made a scale scheme, then you can simply measure from the bottom-left corner of the length that you take from the chart, multiplied by the scale factor. For example, on a sketch you have 3cm, with a scale of 1:10 on the pattern will be 30cm.

If your bottom edge is made in the form of repeating shaped modules, it is enough to build one on another sheet, but here you just draw it a few times.

Having mastered the creation of a pattern of hard lambrequins, you can make templates of any complexity on your own. You do not have to revise a lot of images on the Internet, wasting time. There was an idea, they took and realized first in the pattern, then in the material.

Decorative finishings

Any curtains that have a hard lambrequin (photo below) look stylish and very original due to the shape of the part. However, the additional decoration will also come in handy. Decorate the edges of the finished product as follows:

• Fringe;
• Braid;
• Cord;
• Glass beads.

Usually, it is done from the bottom. The surface of the part can also be decorated with a sewn pattern from the above elements or use other objects such as:

• Bows;
• Flowers;
• Butterflies and dragonflies;
• Beads;
• Eyelets;
• Patches.

The choice of decor is determined by the fabric, shape and model of lambrequin. If it is sewn from several multi-colored details of complex shape or the fabric has a contrasting bright pattern, no additional decor will be required.

How to make an openwork pattern

If you do not like to overload the space with dense fabrics, but at the same time want to do something original, make an openwork hard lambrequin with your own hands. The principle of operation and technology are the same as those described above. The difference lies in the template used. In this case, it is not just a rectangle with a curved edge, but a carved decorative pattern.

If you can draw, you can easily design the ornament yourself. You can also find any vector (outline) image on the Internet. If the file is in this format with the extension * .cdr, * .ai, * .eps, you simply scale it without losing quality in the corresponding editor. For such a service, you can contact an advertising agency that offers large-format printing. There you will also create a template in scale 1: 1.

It will be difficult to make such a pattern on the jpg file, because when you zoom in, the outlines will be blurred, but if you try, it will all work out with this pattern. It should be noted that in the ornament there should not be too many small and complex elements. Performing in the material it will be difficult, especially if you are a beginner.

In an industrial way openwork lambrequins are produced on special laser cutting equipment, when the drawing is executed immediately from a two-layered substrate. You will have to do all the operations manually.

So, you've learned how hard lambrequin is made. This is easy if you follow the sequence of actions. Correctly calculating the dimensions, you can easily build a pattern yourself or modify any ready-made template. Design, sew, decorate your interior.