Comfort, Style & Solar Control Without Losing Your View
Solar View Woven Shades are designed to provide effective solar protection while maintaining natural light and visibility to the outdoors. Made from durable, high-quality solar screen fabric, these shades help reduce heat, glare, and damaging UV rays, creating a more comfortable environment for homes, offices, retail locations, commercial buildings, and other spaces with sun-exposed windows.
Our woven shades are available in 3% and 5% openness, allowing you to choose the level of light control and outward visibility that works best for your space.
3% Woven Fabric provides greater sun and glare control with a tighter weave. It allows less light through and offers increased daytime privacy while still maintaining a view to the outside.
5% Woven Fabric has a slightly more open weave, allowing more natural light and a clearer outward view while still providing excellent glare and solar heat reduction.
Every Solar View Woven Shade is custom-made to the measurements you provide. Each shade is carefully fabricated for your individual window size and selected options, providing a clean, professional appearance and dependable operation.
Choose from a selection of woven fabric colors, bottom bar styles, chain options, and optional fascia finishes to create a shade that complements your space.
Solar View Woven Shades are an excellent solution anywhere excessive sunlight, glare, and heat interfere with comfort or visibility. They are especially well suited for:
Whether you’re trying to reduce glare on computer screens, improve indoor comfort, protect furnishings from sun exposure, or simply enjoy your view with less intense sunlight, Solar View Woven Shades provide a practical and attractive solution.
Unlike room-darkening shades, woven solar shades are designed to manage sunlight without completely closing off your view. When lowered during the daytime, the woven material filters incoming sunlight while still allowing you to see outside.
It’s an ideal combination of solar protection, outward visibility, durability, and clean contemporary style—custom-made for your windows by Solar View Window Fashions.
A fabric-wrapped fascia conceals the roller tube and mounting hardware, creating a clean, finished appearance. The fascia is wrapped in coordinating fabric to match your shade for a seamless, professional look. It is recommended for outside-mounted shades or any installation where the roller is visible.
Solar View – Roll Shade Measurement Guidelines
All measurements must be recorded in inches, rounded down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Examples:
Tools Needed
Included Hardware
Mollies/toggles for plaster, drywall, or concrete are not included.
Bracket Notes:
Faber/Benthin universal brackets may be mounted left or right, inside, outside, or on the ceiling. Brackets must be installed perfectly level for proper shade operation.
Standard bracket length: 1 3/8″. Extended length: 2 3/8″.
Inside Measurement (IM) Guidelines
Inside Measurement refers to ordering a shade to be installed inside the window casement. When you provide an IM width, you are giving the exact space within the opening.
The factory will then take precise deductions to ensure the shade, brackets, and rotating control mechanism fit properly.
Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
Examples:
Because of these required deductions:
IM shades will ALWAYS have a gap of up to 5/8” on both sides
(± 1/8” depending on tolerances)
This gap is necessary so the shade can raise, lower, and rotate freely.
If you order a shade at:
The shade will be manufactured to fit within that 70” space.
However, due to bracket/mechanism allowances:
This remaining space is the functional “gap” required for operation.
When IM Gaps Are Not Acceptable
If the side gap is visually unacceptable or you need more complete coverage:
Consider an Outside Bracket Mount (OB)
Mounting the shade on the wall, trim, or mullion allows you to add width beyond the window opening and cover more area.
When IM Gaps Are Not Acceptable
If the side gap is visually unacceptable or you need more complete coverage:
Consider an Outside Bracket Mount (OB)
Mounting the shade on the wall, trim, or mullion allows you to add width beyond the window opening and cover more area
Important Ordering Rules
Outside Measurement (OM / OB) Guidelines
Outside Measurements—also referred to as Outside Bracket (OB) measurements—are used when mounting the shade outside the window casement. This includes mounting on:
When you provide an OM/OB measurement, you are giving the exact dimensions you want the shade to cover, based on where the brackets will be installed.
OB measurements are manufactured with NO factory deductions.
The shade will be made exactly to the width and height you order.
This gives you complete control over the final coverage area.
For Outside Mount installations, you can eliminate or reduce light gaps by:
Simply adding extra width to your bracket mounting measurement.
Because the shade sits outside the opening, you can widen the shade beyond the window frame to improve privacy and light control.
Golden Rule for OB Measurements
Always measure to and from the exact points where the brackets will be installed.
This ensures:
