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Quality Standards for Workrooms

Authored by Kitty Stein
and adopted in 2001 by The Window Covering Association of America to be a part of their national standards.

(Go to wcaa.org to purchase the entire book of standards.) Professional, Quality Workrooms will strive to achieve the following:

Business practices:
  1.

 Use printed Terms & Conditions and perhaps a Contract approved
by an attorney.
  2. Require and use their own printed workorders.
  3. Inspect all fabrics for flaws.
  4. Inspect everything BEFORE it goes out the door!
  5. DELIVER ON TIME!
  6. Guarantee their own work! Take responsibility for their mistakes!
General Sewing practices:
  7. Sew straight seams with no puckering.
  8. Remove all loose threads, thread tails, fuzz, etc.
  9.

 Eliminate obvious puckering in topstitched sewing, e.g. topstitching
a band.
  10. Where seams must be visible, match prints at the seams.
  11.

 Create any shapes or scallops to be uniform in size and to be
stitched evenly.
  12. Eliminate puckers, ripples, or twists in covered cording.
  13.

 When cording is applied to fabric, ensure the fabric will lay flat
and smooth without puckering.
  14.

 When connecting cord casing as on a pillow, seam the ends
together rather than overlapping them.
  15. Eliminate visibility of prior stitching after cording is applied.
  16.

 Apply ready-made twist cord that is stitched into a seam without the
'lip/tape' showing on the right side.
  17. Connect twist cord so the connection is not obvious.
  18. Be willing to pick it out and do it over.
General Fabrication practices:
  19. Check to be sure that all fabrics are right side up and right side out.
  20.

 Center and precisely repeat prints in all sections of the same treatment
and/or all treatments in the room.
  21. Make the tops of all print draperies in the same room match.
  22.

 Ensure that the print is straight across the tops of treatments with
no drifting.
  23.

 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.
  24. Avoid putting a seam in the middle of a treatment.
  25.

 Ensure that all stripes and/or plaids are as straight and centered as
possible.
  26.

 Place seams in pinch pleat draperies beside the pleat at the junction
of the pleat and space.
  27. Seams will be hidden wherever possible, e.g. box pleated valances.
  28.

 Use odd numbers if possible, e.g. # swags on a window, # of
scallops in a valance.
  29. Cover all boards with fabric or paint them.
  30.

 Fabricate double 1 ¼ -1 ½" side hems in drapery panels and avoid
seaming the lining to the face along the sides.

 

 

 
  31 Abide by 2 ½ times the width as the minimum standard for
custom fullness
  32. Use weights at the bottoms of corners and seams in draperies.
  33 Achieve even lengths
  34. Hem face fabrics in window coverings with a true "blindstitch"
machine or by hand and avoid straight stitched hems or domestic
machine hem stitches
  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
  36 Fabricate in a smoke-free, pet-free environmen

 
 
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