Drapery pins? Click the play button below to learn about drapery pins and what and how they are used.

Most pleated drapery styles are designed to accomodate pins at the top along the back.

The pin setting, measured from the top of the pin to the top of your drapery, will be determined by your selected drapery hardware.

Our standard pin setting is .25" - pinned for rings.

showing what a drapery pin looks like.

Draperies hung with drapery pins and decorative rings.

Draperies hung with drapery pins and decorative rings and where the ring will be located.

Be sure to specify your pin setting or hardware if you need a different setting than our standard.

If your drapery will be installed with carriers on a traversing rod, the pin setting is typically 1.5"

Functioning panel pinned for traversing rod.

Diagram of pin placement for traversing rod.

Pins can be easily adjusted on-site!

If you need your draperies to be slightly shorter, you can lower the pins along the back of the pleat header.

To add length, move the pins up higher. Just be sure to keep the pin setting measurement consistent across the panel.

The number of pins will be determined by the number of pleats on your drapery.

Be sure to click the play button below to watch our video about pleated drapery widths if you haven't already or visit our drapery width blog post for more great visuals explaining the number of pleats per width.

We will also include a pin on the return side and overlap side of your drapery panel.

The return side is typically pinned back to the wall for full drapery coverage across your window.

Pinning on the return side of a drapery panel.

Pin placement on the return side of drapery panels.

Pleated drapery with drapery pins and hung on rings.

Learn more about drapery projection/returns, and overlaps by watching our video below!

To recap, we put together a chart of our most common pin settings used for different drapery hardware styles.

Drapery Pin Settings

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