Drapery Workroom to the Trade
Stevenson Vestal is a high-quality custom drapery workroom located in Burlington, North Carolina, and serving interior designers and retailers with free weekly fabric pickup to locations in NC, VA, DC metro and MD. We specialize in hand-crafting custom window coverings, bedding and accessories utilizing Old World-style artisanship empowered by modern technology to create maximum value and fast, dependable turn times.
We have been named Workroom of the Year by Draperies & Window Coverings Magazine. In the September 2008 issue, Editor Howard Shingle wrote that "For 23 years Stevenson Vestal has worked to achieve a high degree of excellence...helping small workrooms with large, unique or complicated projects as well as working with national chains and in the high-end hospitality market." Read more about our Workroom of the Year honors and find more SV news on our News & Events page.
Getting Started with Stevenson Vestal is easy! Prospective customers, we welcome you to view our New Accounts page, which includes an Account App and Workroom Order Form as PDF downloads. Or you can request our colorful printed Information Packet which includes sample pricing. If you have general questions, you'll find a contact form and more info at our Contact Us page. SV
customers, make sure you have our latest printed Price List and our
detailed and rich resource, the Designer Guide. Stay in touch, go to our Contact Us page.
A Stevenson Vestal Timeline
1960 Pete and Betty Smith open Smith Draperies as a retail drapery shop.
1971 The Smiths add wholesale manufacturing to their existing retail business.
1985 Dave Stevenson and Bill Vestal purchase Smith Draperies from the Smiths.
1987 The new owners cease retail operations in order to focus on "to the trade only" wholesale business.
1990 Dave and Bill build our modern manufacturing facility and change the company name to Stevenson Vestal. The expansive facility allows for efficient production, training and apprenticeship.
2000 An expanding customer base creates the need for more space, and an addition to the facility increases the workroom area by 50% to 22,500 square feet.
2004 A second addition to the facility increases the workroom area by 33% to 30,000 square feet.
2008 Automated cutting and automated board routing as well as computer-assisted pattern making added to workroom capabilities. A new database and new website lay the groundwork for future information system innovations.
2010 Online Status Letter arrives at secure customer login area of website, along with a beta rollout of Online Quoting point of sale tool. Stevenson Vestal product engineers invent Safe-T-Shade™, a child-safe cordless shade.
Stevenson Vestal Mission
To preserve and promote old-world style artisanship and craftsmanship in the products of our trade while embracing the best of today's manufacturing techniques and technology.
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Stevenson Vestal Company Goal
To achieve the highest degree of excellence in the custom window and bed coverings industry by providing our customer with the highest product quality, the best customer service and the maximum value through the efficient and innovative utilization of our resources.
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Stevenson Vestal Value Statement
We make it our duty as a company and as individual citizens to act as the absolute best stewards of those things that have become our responsibility. With that in mind, we consider ourselves duty-bound to abide by all laws of our great nation, act in no way that would harm others and adhere to sound ethical and moral judgement in our actions.
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You may click here to send an email request for new account and sales information.
We welcome you to request a printed Information Packet which includes sample pricing, or view contact info, driving directions and general information at our Contact Us page.
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