{"id":23,"date":"2013-02-22T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.33.10\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/choosing-fabric-for-your-valance\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:49:37","slug":"choosing-fabric-for-your-valance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/choosing-fabric-for-your-valance\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Fabric for your Valance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When deciding on a <a href=\"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/fabrics.html\">fabric<\/a> to use on your window valances, other than the standard thought process of I really like this one, considering the vertical repeat of the fabric may be something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, a majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/products\/window-valances.html\">window valances<\/a> average 15&#8243;-18&#8243; in length. Large vertical fabric repeats may or may not work well on a particular valance style. Fabrics with a <!--more-->smaller repeat will work well on any valance style. A vertical repeat is how often the same image runs vertically up the fabric. So if you see the same flower every 27&#8243;, this means the fabric has a 27&#8243; vertical repeat.<\/p>\n<p>A vertical repeat does not normally run more than 36&#8243;, which is the same as one yard of fabric. If you are choosing a valance that is 15&#8243; in length and the vertical repeat of the fabric you like is 36&#8243;, this probably won\u2019t work if the entire print is large as well as the repeat being large.<\/p>\n<p>Some valance styles incorporate the use of two fabrics. We typically call the use of a second fabric a contrasting fabric, but really it is just another word for complementary fabric, the use of a fabric that works well with the primary fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Striped and solid fabrics are typically used as complementary coordinates. When choosing fabrics for your valance or other <a href=\"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\">window treatments<\/a>, we are here to assist you if you need suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When deciding on a fabric to use on your window valances, other than the standard thought process of I really like this one, considering the vertical repeat of the fabric may be something to think about. For the most part, a majority of window valances average 15&#8243;-18&#8243; in length. Large vertical fabric repeats may or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[33,108,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionwindowtreatments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}