Make It with Style: Draperies and Swags [Paperback]

Donna Lang (Author)

Book Description

Series: Make It with Style | Publication Date: February 11, 1997

Make window treatments so distinctive and spectacular, your friends will want to know the name of your decorator.

No single decorating choice has greater impact on the overall ambience of a room than how the windows are dressed. Whether your taste runs to the traditional look of formal swags and jabots, or to a simple yet sophisticated pairing of panels and valances, Make It with Style: Draperies & Swags offers the perfect solution for every window in your home--complete with step-by-step instructions to ensure a professional look. You'll find . . .


directions and patterns for making more than 20 custom designs that can be adapted to any decor
dozens of full-color illustrations
decorator tips on mounting and installing treatments
helpful information on choosing and caring for fabrics
guidelines for working with trims and notions
glossaries of technical terms and techniques


. . . as well as more than 50 full-color photographs of stunning window treatments that are sure to inspire your own creativity.

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Make window treatments so distinctive and spectacular, your friends will want to know the name of your decorator.

No single decorating choice has greater impact on the overall ambience of a room than how the windows are dressed. Whether your taste runs to the traditional look of formal swags and jabots, or to a simple yet sophisticated pairing of panels and valances, Make It with Style: Draperies & Swags offers the perfect solution for every window in your home--complete with step-by-step instructions to ensure a professional look. You'll find . . .


directions and patterns for making more than 20 custom designs that can be adapted to any decor
dozens of full-color illustrations
decorator tips on mounting and installing treatments
helpful information on choosing and caring for fabrics
guidelines for working with trims and notions
glossaries of technical terms and techniques


. . . as well as more than 50 full-color photographs of stunning window treatments that are sure to inspire your own creativity.

About the Author

Donna Lang is the coauthor of Decorating with Fabric and Decorating with Paper and the author of Make It with Style: Window Shades. Ms. Lang's home fashion designs are carried by the Simplicity Pattern Company, and she makes frequent appearances on national television. Her interior design firm, Donna Lang, Ltd., is located in Chatham, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (February 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517887169
• ISBN-13: 978-0517887165
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #994,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source for seemingly complicated swags, October 18, 1999

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Penny (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Make It with Style: Draperies and Swags (Paperback)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good reference for contemporary projects, October 4, 2005

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Yana Orel (Danbury, CT, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Make It with Style: Draperies and Swags (Paperback)

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.

77 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the worst book on the subject I've ever seen, March 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Make It with Style: Draperies and Swags (Paperback)

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.