114 - Roman Shade Ribs

Yeah.

It's, it's that little skinny thing that's inside a shade that nobody sees and but they can be very useful and important.

And we'll do a statement upfront.

You do not have to use Roman shade ribs, any Roman shades.

I've made hundreds of shades, I'm sure maybe thousands over my career without ribs.

So it's not something you have to do,

but.

I'm looking around my house inside my mind.

I'm looking right at my office.

Roman shades there's no ribs in them there are ribs in the ones in my living room and the ones I did using your buckram method I do not have ribs in that and I think that's all the Roman shades I have in my house yeah so some do some don't oh no I have one in my kitchen ribs

All right, then you have a mixed bag of ribs.

I do.

That sounds like, that sounds like a menu item.

Delicious.

Why have ribs? What's the point?

Well, like, you know, kind of mentioned they, they add structure.

It's sort of like putting a skeleton inside of your shade.

They keep the folds even prevent sagging between the lift lines.

It, It allows you to have your horizontal cord spacing larger, where without ribs, you might go around like seven to nine inches.

You can go 12 to 15 inches on some shades with ribs, depending on where you place them and how you use them.

And ribs can either be placed at the tack point where the shade is lifted.

Right.

They can be placed on the fold towards the, between the tack points so that it falls to the front.

And we'll talk more about that in a few minutes.

I'm going to talk about some fabrication methods, but.