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Residential Woven Shades

Enjoy natural light without the harsh glare. Solar View Woven Shades help reduce sunlight and heat while maintaining your view of the outdoors. Available in 3% and 5% openness, our custom-made woven shades are an attractive solution for living rooms, bedrooms, dining areas, and more.

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Identity Salon – Brookside, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Solar View Woven Shades provide an attractive and practical solar-control solution for this salon in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Brookside area. With large windows bringing in abundant sunlight throughout the day, the salon needed a way to reduce heat and glare while maintaining a bright, welcoming atmosphere for clients and stylists.

The open-weave solar fabric helps control intense sunlight and solar heat gain without completely closing off the windows. This is especially beneficial in a salon environment, where client comfort and consistent interior lighting are important throughout the day. The shades also help reduce glare at styling stations while providing daytime visibility through the windows.

Solar View Woven Shades offer:

  • Reduced heat and glare from large windows
  • UV protection to help protect furnishings and interior finishes
  • Daytime visibility through the shade
  • Improved comfort for clients and employees
  • Reduced direct sunlight at styling and waiting areas
  • A clean, contemporary appearance
  • Custom sizing for each individual window

This Brookside salon installation demonstrates how Solar View Woven Shades provide solar protection, comfort, outward visibility, and a polished appearance for large commercial windows.

State Farm Insurance, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Solar View Woven Shades provide a practical and professional solar-control solution for this State Farm Insurance office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Installed throughout the office’s large windows, the dark woven shades help reduce intense sunlight, heat, and glare while maintaining visibility to the outdoors.

The open-weave solar fabric allows natural light into the workspace without completely blocking the view, creating a more comfortable environment for employees and customers. By controlling glare on computer screens and reducing solar heat gain through large expanses of glass, the shades are especially well suited for offices and other commercial buildings.

Solar View Woven Shades offer:

  • Reduced glare and solar heat gain
  • UV protection to help protect furnishings and interiors
  • Daytime visibility through the shade
  • Reduced direct sunlight without making the office feel closed in
  • A clean, professional appearance for commercial windows
  • Custom sizing for each individual window

This Tulsa State Farm installation demonstrates how Solar View Woven Shades can provide solar protection, outward visibility, and a polished appearance while complementing the existing architecture of a professional office.

Brookside Restaurant – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Solar View Woven Shades provide an effective solar-control solution for this restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Brookside area. With large windows surrounding the dining area and overlooking the outdoor patio, direct sunlight can create excessive heat and glare for customers seated near the windows.

The open-weave solar fabric helps reduce intense sunlight and solar heat gain while maintaining visibility to the outdoors. Even with the shades lowered, guests can continue to enjoy views of the patio and surrounding area without the discomfort of harsh direct sunlight. This makes woven shades especially well suited for restaurants with large expanses of glass and window-side seating.

Solar View Woven Shades offer:

  • Reduced heat and glare through large windows
  • UV protection to help protect furnishings and interiors
  • Daytime visibility through the shade
  • Improved comfort for customers and employees
  • Reduced direct sunlight on dining areas
  • A clean, professional appearance
  • Custom sizing for each individual window

This Brookside restaurant installation demonstrates how Solar View Woven Shades provide solar protection, customer comfort, and outward visibility while preserving the open atmosphere and natural light of the dining space.

What Is a Fabric-Wrapped Fascia?

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

SolarView will provide custom roll shades made to the measurements that the customer records.

1. Understanding Measurements

  • All measurements must be recorded in inches, rounded down to the nearest 1/8 inch.

    • Width = Left to right
    • Height = Top to bottom
    • Depth = Front to back (inside the window casement)

2. Important Requirements

    • Measure at the bracket installation points.
      The width must be taken at the exact location where the brackets will be mounted.
      → Do NOT measure based on the desired shade fabric size.
    • Use a steel measuring tape only.
      Cloth or flexible tapes are not accurate enough.
    • Accepted units: Inches with fractions (rounded down to nearest 1/8″).
      → Feet, decimals, and metric measurements will not be accepted.
    • Record exact window measurements.
      Do not add or subtract anything—Solar View will make appropriate manufacturing adjustments.

3. Rounding Instructions

  • Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
    Examples:

    • 35 3/16″ → record 35 1/8″
    • 27 5/32″ → record 27 1/8″
    • 42 7/16″ → record 42 3/8″

Tools Needed

Included Hardware

  • Cordless drill or screwdriver
  • ¼” hex drive attachment
  • Tape measure
  • Pencil & level
  • Possibly a 3/32″ drill bit
  • Specific wall anchors when needed
  • 2 universal brackets
  • 4 × #6 × ¾” self‑tapping screws (for wood, sheet metal, aluminum)
  • 2 flat‑head screws for clutch side (inside/jamb mount)

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

What is an Inside Measurement (IM)?

  • 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.

Factory Deductions & Side Gaps

  • Round down to the nearest 1/8 inch.
    Examples:

    • 35 3/16″ → record 35 1/8″
    • 27 5/32″ → record 27 1/8″
    • 42 7/16″ → record 42 3/8″
  • 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.

Example

  • If you order a shade at:

    • IM Width: 70”

    The shade will be manufactured to fit within that 70” space.
    However, due to bracket/mechanism allowances:

    • Approximate material width (including bottom bar): 68 ¾”

    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

  • Do NOT use fabric/material width or bottom bar width as measurements.
    These are not accepted for ordering and will result in incorrect shade sizing.
  • Record only true window opening dimensions.
    The manufacturing team will apply all appropriate deductions.
  • Check for obstructions.
    Trim, molding, handles, sensors, and other protrusions must be measured and accounted for before ordering.
  • Photos or additional measurements may be required to ensure a proper custom fit.

Outside Measurement (OM / OB) Guidelines

What Is an Outside Measurement (OM)?

  • Outside Measurements—also referred to as Outside Bracket (OB) measurements—are used when mounting the shade outside the window casement. This includes mounting on:

    • The outer window casing
    • Wall surface
    • Ceiling
    • Trim or molding
    • Mullions
  • 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.

Factory Deductions

  • 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.

Improved Light Gap Coverage

  • 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:

  • Correct overall width
  • Proper bracket alignment
  • Accurate shade fit