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Hobbled Roman Shade
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I have never made a Hobbled shade myself, so please consider this information as a guideline, rather than as "tried and reliable". It is usually made using twill tape, which can be purchased with or without lift rings already attached.
You can use the Hardware Calculator to help you decide on Fold Depth, number of lift lines, etc. Simply use the Finished Shade Width and Finished Shade Length. You will have to modify two items. Item 1. You should use internal battens in the Up-Folds ONLY. You only need half the number of recommended battens. Item 2. The calculator will calculate the lining amount based on a flat Roman shade. See the instructions below for the actual size of the lining.
A Hobbled Shade has permanent folds, which are created by doubling the fabric between the folds.
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The length of the shade, before you make the soft folds, will be almost twice as long as a flat shade.
Flat shade length: Top Border + (number of folds x Fold Depth) + Bottom Border. For example, a FINISHED shade length of 56", with 3" folds (16 of them) would work out to (3" Top Border + (16 x 3") + 5" Bottom Border) = 3" + 48" + 5" = 56".
The UN-HOBBLED Finished Length of the shade: Top Border + 2 x (number of folds x Fold Depth) + Bottom Border. If you want to end up with a Finished Hobbled Length of 56", then your un-hobbled shade would be made this long: 3" Top Border + 2 x (16 x 3") + 5" Bottom Border) = 3" + 96" + 5" = 104".
Make the shade the Un-Hobbled Finished length, just like you would a flat shade. Now we are going to switch our terminology to Flaps, rather than folds. A Flap is actually two folds: one up and one down. Since we are going to put battens only on the up folds, we will have one batten for every Flap. In the above example, your 16 "folds" will be 6" apart, but your battens will be 12" apart. Glue the battens inside the shade on every-other fold, beginning at the bottom fold. In our example, the first batten will be 5" up from the bottom of the shade and the second batten will be 12" above the bottom batten.
Now you are going to mark your twill tape: 0.5" from one end, and then every 6" (the actual Flap size, which is double the Fold Depth given on the Hardware Calculator). You then pin the twill tape onto the back of the shade, which will bulge out between the pins, since there is double the distance between the battens as between the marks on the twill tape. Hand sew the lift rings (or tack where the lift rings are for pre-sewn tape) through all layers of the shade (around the battens) and twill tape. Proceed as with the flat shade.
The Galleries also show examples of Top-Down Hobbled shades.
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