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Swivel slide This basic friction style is typically used with drapery pin hooks or other metal or plastic hooks that insert into the hole on the slide. 3/8" wide x 3/4" tall. Inside diameter of hole is 3/16". Swivel slide with attached hook Same as the swivel slide but with an attached stainless steel hook to hold grommet curtains or curtains with buttonholes. Hook is 1 1/4" long and works perfectly for curtains where the top of the grommet hole is 1 1/2" down from the top of the curtain. Also used with shower curtains. Tech wheeled carrier Similar in...

Whether you are hanging curtains on a ceiling curtain track or wall mounted track, the techniques are the same. The main choices are drapery pin hooks, S hooks or plastic hooks.  The reason many people want to use our traversing curtain tracks is to eliminate any interference while sliding it open and closed. No matter the length of your track, the brackets don't interfere with the functionality. Depending on the rod, the brackets either attach to the top or back of the track and don't block the bottom channel where the slides are. What you use to actually hang the...

When selecting the right curtain or drapery track for your situation, the two main questions you need to answer are: 1) Is it a wall or ceiling mount curtain track? 2) What kind of curtains are going to be used? The first question is pretty easy for most. For a standard wall mount curtain or drapery track, we recommend the Forest CS track. This is a hand draw set, but they are also available as baton draw sets for pleated draperies where you want overlapping master carriers. This track is well lubricated with good splices allowing the slides to cross the joints easily....

Since we often get questions about what kind of curtains go on our tracks that use the eyelet carriers, we thought we'd put some pictures of various pleated styles in a blog post. The curtain tracks with the ball bearing carriers or eyelet carriers (the style of carrier that doesn't have a hook hanging from it) is primarily used for pleated draperies, but now are often used for our newer wave fold system. Pleated draperies don't just come in the Pinch pleated traditional style any more. There is also the Euro or English pleat The Goblet pleat The Cartridge pleat...

There are many configurations for showers and tubs these days. Often, something other than the traditional straight shower bar is needed. Our custom sized, ceiling mounted shower curtain track sets can be used to solve this problem. Whether you have a corner unit, neo-angle shower or a clawfoot tub, we have you covered. A small well lubricated 1/2" aluminum track, together with our ability to do custom bends, provides us with the ability to do L-shapes, U-shapes or 4-sided track sets. Our tracks easily mount directly to the ceiling. By adding our stainless steel drop chains, you can often just use standard...