Repair, alteration, shortening and cleaning of curtains and bedding, from the Sherbrooke atelier. One call and you will know quickly whether it is worth doing.
The simplest way is to talk it over. A few minutes on the phone is often enough to know whether a repair is worth it.
I do not take every repair. It has to cost clearly less than remaking the curtain, otherwise you are paying to extend something that is already finished.
The two cases where I will point you toward new work instead:
In that case I say so, and give you a sense of what a new curtain would cost. The estimate is free, and I do not push anyone toward new work when repairing is right.
A lined curtain does not wash like a bedsheet. The face fabric and the lining do not shrink at the same rate, and an ordinary cleaning is enough to twist a panel that used to hang perfectly. The pleats go on the first dry.
The cleaning itself goes to a specialist cleaner equipped for large lined panels. What I do is the before and after: checking that the fabric and lining will survive the treatment, then resetting the pleats and the drape before they go back up. If your curtains were made elsewhere, that is fine. I take pieces that did not come from my atelier.
“A good curtain deserves repair. A finished one deserves to be told.”
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