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Book the private view: a free home visit. We measure every window, then make each piece in our own workshop.
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Linen curtains
Daylight through a woven texture
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
If your Dubai home is mostly tile, glass and pale walls, linen curtains add a woven texture, and the weave glows when the sun is behind it. Pure linen creases the most, a blend less, and linen-look polyester hardly at all. Measuring is free at a home visit, and then our own workshop sews each curtain to size.
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The yarn
Real linen's yarn has thicker spots along it, which give the surface its slightly irregular look.
In side light
Judge creases on a hanging length, as at your window, not on a folded swatch.
Corner turned back
Hidden from the room, a lining should follow the folds and never sag below the hem.
In a west-facing living room, late sun hits the linen's window side, and a deep colour fades there. By late July, the UV readings published for Dubai are 11 to 12. Ask for a lining: it hangs nearer the glass, so the sun falls on it first.
June sunrise comes around 5:30 am, and that early light passes straight through unlined linen. Linen blackout curtains have a blackout lining sewn on the window side, so the fabric itself lets no light through. The nursery keeps the same linen as the rest of the house.
On a drop several metres long, pure linen's small first-wash shrink can lift the hem off the floor, so check the care label before washing. Most of our fabrics come 280 to 320 cm wide, so a drop up to that size needs no seam. Our fitters bring scaffolding for glass this tall, charged separately.
One may be pure linen, one a blend, one linen-look polyester: each a fair choice. Ask for the fibre in writing on every quote, with a blend's mix, so you compare the same cloth before you compare the totals.
A nursery at sunrise
Sun shows through unlined linen. Your choice of lining sets two things: how dark the room gets and what people outside see at night.
Illustration, not a measurement
By day the weave screens the room from people outside; after dark, with lamps lit inside, they can see shapes through a light linen.
A lining behind the linen dims the room and keeps people from seeing in after dark, but the glow is gone.
The fabric stops the light. What is left comes round the edges, so ask for a track that reaches past the window frame.
For a room where the texture matters and the curtain is rarely washed, choose pure linen. Where curtains need cleaning often, as in a kitchen or a child's room, linen-look polyester is the easier choice. A blend sits between the two.
A linen pair drawn from the centre
| Fabric | Creases | When washed | Usually costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pure linen | Easily, all over | Can shrink the first time | The most |
| Linen blend (with cotton, viscose or polyester) | Less, depending on the mix | Depends on the mix: check the label | Between pure linen and linen-look |
| Linen-look polyester | Hardly at all | Little or no shrinking | The least |
We make curtains in pure linen and in linen blends; pure linen is the costliest of the two.
The lining controls the light, the heading sets the track or pole, and the weight sets the depth of the folds.
Lined, against the sun
Looser folds, and lighter to wash.
Fuller folds.
For bedrooms, and for anyone who sleeps by day.
An extra layer against the heat, which we can add to linen curtains you own.
Eyelet
Pinch pleat
Wave
Three curtain headings
Soft, even curves along a ceiling or wall track.
Sewn pleats at the top, on a track.
Rings in the linen slide on a pole; light shows above it.
A heavy linen
An open weave; the sun comes through.
Screens the room by day.
Deeper folds, and more load on the track's fixings.
Three checks usually tell real linen from linen-look: crush it, hold it to the light and touch it.
Try the same checks on sheer linen, hung by day for privacy. For a night worker or a napping baby, see linen in a bedroom and the blackout lining that keeps the room dark. For glass two storeys tall, motorized curtains open and close a drop you can't reach.
Linen can also hang from eyelets on a pole. It comes in deep colours, reds among them. Where a curtain won't fit, linen makes a Roman blind instead. Compare how the headings look, or browse the rest of our curtains.
A crushed corner
Linen has no published rate with us: we price it at the free home visit. A blend's price follows its mix, so one rate can't cover pure linen and every blend.
Once you've picked the fibre and weight, we measure each window and price it separately, each part on its own line. The quote holds for 30 days. To see how those lines add up, read how a curtain quote breaks down.
Pure linen and blends
The Curtains Dubai measures your windows at a free home visit, makes your linen curtains to measure in its own workshop, and fits them.
Just hung on a ceiling track
Say which rooms, which way each window faces, and any linen you've already liked, with photos if you have them. Home visits run Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm.
We come anywhere in Dubai, measure every window and settle the fabric, lining and heading with you. Our linen samples come too, so you see each one in your room's light.
A deposit confirms the order, and our Dubai workshop cuts each curtain for one window. Fitting follows 3 working days after approval; big or complicated jobs take longer. Have a moving-in date? Raise it before you approve the order.
We fit the track and hang each curtain, then even out the folds. Draw every one yourself before the fitter leaves. Book the free home visit, and you'll know which linen and which lining suit each window.
Anything else, ask on the phone: 050 257 7765
Eight things set the price of linen curtains in Dubai: the fibre, weight, lining, fullness, heading, track, drop and fitting. Fullness is the extra fabric gathered into folds: 2.5 times the window's width for an eyelet or wave heading, 2 times for pinch pleat. We price linen window by window once it is measured.
Linen is spun from flax, and flax takes more work to turn into yarn than cotton. So pure linen usually costs more per metre than cotton or polyester. The difference grows on tall, wide windows, where one curtain uses many metres. A blend or linen-look polyester brings the price down.
Pure linen can shrink, most on its first wash. Check the care label: some linen can be washed cool and gently, and some is dry-clean only. A lined curtain is safer dry-cleaned, because the lining and the linen can shrink by different amounts. Cleaning isn't something we do, so find a dry cleaner who handles linen.
Linen curtains have no fixed lifespan in years; the window matters most. Strong sun on the window side fades linen and weakens its fibres. Damp folds and frequent washing add wear too. A lining, dry folds and gentle cleaning all help it last. Our 2-year warranty covers the stitching and making, though not sun fading.
Humid air leaves linen damp, and folds that stay damp start to smell. The National Centre of Meteorology has forecast humidity up to 90% on the coast. A curtain touching the glass, or shut for weeks in a closed-up flat, dries slowly. Keep it off the glass, and air the folds when you get back.
Unlined linen stops little heat: sun through the weave still warms the room. A lined linen curtain, drawn before direct sun arrives, keeps out more. DEWA's own summer advice puts curtains on the list of ways to shade sunny glass. In August the mean daily maximum in Dubai is 42.1°C (Dubai Meteorological Office figures, 1977 to 2015).
Blackout linings, and how to keep light from the edges.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Fine, see-through linen and voile for daytime privacy.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
Early sun, darkness and quiet where you sleep.
Made to measure in our workshop
Price on visit
We call or message you on the number you gave to agree a day for the visit. Then we visit and measure every window. The visit and the measuring are free.
