| Business practices: |
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Use printed Terms & Conditions and perhaps a Contract approved
by an attorney. |
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Require and use their own printed workorders. |
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Inspect all fabrics for flaws. |
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Inspect everything BEFORE it goes out the door! |
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DELIVER ON TIME! |
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Guarantee their own work! Take responsibility for their mistakes! |
| General Sewing practices: |
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Sew straight seams with no puckering. |
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Remove all loose threads, thread tails, fuzz, etc. |
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Eliminate obvious puckering in topstitched sewing, e.g. topstitching
a band. |
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Where seams must be visible, match prints at the seams. |
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Create any shapes or scallops to be uniform in size and to be
stitched evenly. |
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Eliminate puckers, ripples, or twists in covered cording. |
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When cording is applied to fabric, ensure the fabric will lay flat
and smooth without puckering. |
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When connecting cord casing as on a pillow, seam the ends
together rather than overlapping them. |
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Eliminate visibility of prior stitching after cording is applied. |
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Apply ready-made twist cord that is stitched into a seam without the
'lip/tape' showing on the right side. |
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Connect twist cord so the connection is not obvious. |
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Be willing to pick it out and do it over. |
| General Fabrication practices: |
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Check to be sure that all fabrics are right side up and right side out. |
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Center and precisely repeat prints in all sections of the same treatment
and/or all treatments in the room. |
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Make the tops of all print draperies in the same room match. |
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Ensure that the print is straight across the tops of treatments with
no drifting. |
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Ensure that all spaces that are intended to be equal, are visibly equal,
e.g. spaces between pinch pleats and grommets in a shower curtain. |
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Avoid putting a seam in the middle of a treatment. |
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Ensure that all stripes and/or plaids are as straight and centered as
possible. |
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Place seams in pinch pleat draperies beside the pleat at the junction
of the pleat and space. |
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Seams will be hidden wherever possible, e.g. box pleated valances. |
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Use odd numbers if possible, e.g. # swags on a window, # of
scallops in a valance. |
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Cover all boards with fabric or paint them. |
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Fabricate double 1 ¼ -1 ½" side hems in drapery panels and avoid
seaming the lining to the face along the sides. |
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Abide by 2 ½ times the width as the minimum standard for
custom fullness |
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Use weights at the bottoms of corners and seams in draperies. |
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Achieve even lengths |
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Hem face fabrics in window coverings with a true "blindstitch"
machine or by hand and avoid straight stitched hems or domestic
machine hem stitches |
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Abide by the safety standards for corded treatments, i.e. draperies
and soft shades, and apply the labels and hang tags as required in
the American National Standard |
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Fabricate in a smoke-free, pet-free environmen |
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