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I was asked about how the roman blind was made, so here's a bit of my braindump:

The fabric used is a cotton throw - so it's very thin material (the same as a bed sheet, for example). I just happened to have this - I bought it years ago at Covent Garden market, and used it to cover an old sofa. Carpet wouldn't work at all, as it would be too stiff to scrunch up when raised.

The roman blind was easy to make - we made some patches of material which had a flap in the middle, and attached an eyelet (you can get these from haberdashery shops, and some DIY places). These patches were then sewn onto the back of the cloth in a grid - 4 columns, and around 10 or 11 rows. See attached photos for a better idea of what I mean.

You also need to sew a hem on the bottom of the material, deep enough for a bar to pass through to hold the material straight bottom, and give some weight to the material to hold it down. Some wooden dowelling would do the job. At the bottom the hem needs to be left open at the foot of each of the columns of eyelets. This it so you can attach the cord round the dowel.

You also need to work out some way of supporting the whole thing at the top - we attached it like a curtain onto a curtain pole.

You then need to fit large vine eyes to the wall above the screen, coinciding with the columns of eyelets. These are for the pull cords to run through.

Then get the cord, and run it from the tie off point at one side, up through the nearest vine eye down through the eyelets and tie one end round the bottom dowel, and repeat for all the columns. See the image below for a better idea of what I mean.