How to fix on the canvas eyelets for curtains with your own hands

The decoration of the window opening with a beautiful cloth can transform the entire space of the room, bring comfort and home warmth. The market of this industry offers just a huge assortment of materials and window design options: tulle, heavy curtains lined with beautiful pickings, as well as all kinds of original lambrequins with drapery and decorative elements, flowers, leaves and eyelets. The latter can be used to fix the canvas to the cornice.

To install eyelets for curtains with your own hands, you will need:

• A special drapery glue tape with a width of 10, 15 or 20 cm. It is two-sided and one-sided, it is glued to the fabric under the influence of a hot iron. It is quite hard, but plastic material, due to which the product acquires the necessary strength, but at the same time it can form beautiful folds.
• Iron or plastic eyelets.

How to determine the quantity

Before installing eyelets for curtains with your own hands, you need to calculate how many of them will be needed. The optimal distance between them for beautiful folds is 15-17 cm.

Fabrics should be about 1.5 times larger than the window opening, which is much more economical than using a conventional mounting tape. When the amount is clear, the question becomes how to make eyelets on curtains. This decorative element can be found in any specialized store of curtains.

Preparation of curtains

Before installing eyelets for curtains with your own hands without the help of special equipment, you need to prepare the fabric:

• Double curtain curtains using a sealing tape should be at least twice the diameter of the eyelet.
• To correctly calculate the height of the finished product, you need to take into account the consumption of cloth for the upper and lower curls. Please note that the cornice will pass through the curtain holes and above it will be 2.5-3 cm of matter.
• Before you install the eyelets on the curtains, you need to process their side slices.

Installing eyelets

Blank curtains with processed edges are laid out. Mark the place of installation of the elements on its wrong side. Then lay the eyelet and stroke it along the inner contour. The intended circle is carefully cut out. To fix, you need a wooden board. On her face down lay the purse, then the tissue with the hole and the front. After the assembly details are all in place, it remains to simply snap the eyelet, pressing hard against it.

Tip

Before trying to attach eyelets to curtains with your own hands, it is best to produce this on an unnecessary piece of fabric. If this proves too difficult, you can always find a help in the curtain shop for a fee. Thus, it is easy to save money on sewing curtains and pay only for installing decorative finishes.

As an alternative, a mounting tape acts, which is sewn to the fabric and collects it into folds in the type of eyelets. It is also worn directly on the cornice tube, the difference is only in the absence of iron or plastic parts.