Make It with Style: Draperies and Swags

by Donna Lang

Discusses fabric selection, tools, terminology, and techniques, and provides instructions for creating different types of panels, valances, swags, and jabots.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517887169
• ISBN13: 9780517887165
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Very Helpful

I found the book very helpful. I was unsure of how I was going to decorate the windows in my new house, but now I have a few ideas. I definitely recommend this book to people who know style, but need a little help once in awhile. Candice B. (...)  

A good reference for contemporary projects

Useful in assessing what styles should be considered and what it takes to create them. Also, the introduction is instrumental in deciding what window treatment should be selected based on certain criteria such as light, view, energy efficiency, etc. As noted by other reviewers, instructions are too vague to use as the only source of reference unless you have prior expereience in making window treatments. I would purchase this book again.

Love the pictures!

I used this book to get an idea of what kind of window treatments I want to make. This book is simple to read and understand and I can't wait to put it into practice.

the worst book on the subject I've ever seen

the instructions are so badly phrased and illustrated, it's next to useless. I am an experienced sewer, have made lots of draperies, just needed a refresher, and instructions on interlining. There are no instructions on interlining, and the language of instruction is so inexact I simply can't figure out what she's talking about. Same for the illustrations, and I'm a artist (painter) who reads engineering drawings as easily as written language. The least of the faults of this book is that it gives no basic overview of what's possible, and the esthetic exercised is ... well, irrelevant to mine. By the way, I have constructed clothing for fashion shows for pattern companies here in New York.

Excellent source for seemingly complicated swags

This book is a great source for step by step instruction on swags. Several styles to choose from, breaks down the seemingly complicated swags and jabots and walks you through the instruction.