In many places around the world, and perhaps nowhere more than Panama, architecture has moved away from rooms with traditional picture windows to rooms with a large amounts of glass. A move meant to maximize our views and to remove the artificial barriers, to connect us more to our world. What was once a room with two or three 72″ x 60″ picture windows is now glass with expansive windows spanning the entire, or most of, the room width and height.

What does this mean to blind manufacturers? Consumers are going to be asking for larger blinds, not content with having size limitations imposed on them, and with their only option being a multitude of tiny blinds with their unseemly cords hanging across their beautiful view- they will go elsewhere to traditional drapes and curtainry.. or to blind manufacturers who will give them what they need.

Manufacturers must adapt, and some already have, the traditional 78″ fabric roll widths made to accomodate picture windows are slowly being phased out in favor of a new 98″ standard. And more adjustments are being made by the industry with clutch and control mechanism giants like RollEase manufacturing their Skyline and Galaxy systems with patented pull force reduction technologies that make larger blinds easier to handle. Rods and support mechanisms are being made thicker and sturdier to take on the added weight of a large blind, and the weaves themselves are being made with a higher dimensional stability in order to hang straight.

In the case of Persianamania, we’ve also done our part in providing our customer with the option for larger curtains as we have a unique-in-country thermal welding machine which allows us to heat seal two fabrics together to make huge roller shades, roman shades and panel systems. Our maximum recommended roller size for manual operation is 120″x 150″, but if something bigger is needed please contact us for an appointment and we can work with your project on an individual basis.

Next time somebody tells you “there is no such thing as a 100 inch wide curtain”, they aren’t lying, they simply cannot produce it or might not know it is possible. But plus sized shades certainly are, feel free to consult us for your large persiana needs!

Persianamania would like to formally introduce one of our more unique, but less understood products, the Screen View 20% Screen. The 20% refers to the percentage of openness on the fabric- which is a pretty sizeable amount of the surface. As such, my experience tells me that most people assume this to be a pretty energy inefficient fabric. In a standard Reflection/Absorption/Transmission test, all of our screens perform equal or better to some 5% and 10% rollers. What’s the secret? Our screen view product only comes in lighter colors, and lighter colors reflect more solar energy, and absorb less of the same, making the solar heat gain less than a darker color of a tighter fabric even though transmission due to openness is higher.

We can put it like this:

Privacy: Low
Efficiency: Good
View: Excellent

A darker colored 5% blind such as the 5% Ebony Bronze would share the same privacy, efficiency and view as a 20% blind, but would differ in a very drastic way: Color.

A 20% blind takes a lighter color’s weakness, high privacy,

Screen View (20%) Linen

thus reduced view, and turns it into a strength by opening up the weave. Thus if you want to maximize your view and simply cannot fit black, bronze, gray into your decor, a Screen View Blind is the choice for you.

It is also the least expensive persiana or blind to boot.

Other Notes:

• Screen View can be thermal welded, thus be made into larger blinds.
• Products it can be made into: Roller Shades, Panel Track & Roman Shades
• At this moment we produce it in Linen, White Gray and White.