These might be kind of hard to see but I was hoping to give you an idea of how they were hung. There is a track (actually 2 or 3 so that you can hang multiple curtains, like a valance and a long curtain) and the wheels slide into the track. There are stops to put on the ends of the track so the curtains don't come off.
This is what the curtain track looks like from the front.
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How do you attach the wheels to the curtains?
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Fool proof Method: You can buy the wheels with clips on them and just clip them to the top of the curtains like a clothespin. The you slip the wheels into the track.
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Easy Method: Attach small saftey pins to the top of the curtains. Then loop the wheels through the saftey pin (just as you would loop them through the tape on left) Then guide the wheels into the wheel track. No sewing involved and you don't mess up your curtains!
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Sewing Method: (pictured left) You buy a special strip of a type of material tape with loops on it (You can get this in the linen shop at Ramstein in the curtain section, or in the fabric department at Vogelweh, or possibly off base). You sew the tape on the top of the wrong side of the curtain. You should sew the top and the bottom of the tape for best results. Then you guide the hook from the special wheel into the strip that you have sewn onto the curtain. There are loops sewn onto the strip. |
I hope that this has helped you!