String curtains in Dubai, cut to your opening
A string curtain is a row of loose hanging threads on a header tape. There's no woven cloth across it, so air and light pass straight through and you can walk through it without moving anything aside.
That makes it a divider rather than a window covering. It marks a doorway, a wardrobe recess or the line between two parts of a room, without shutting either side off.
Free measuring visit
Openings are rarely the size people think. Someone measures yours and brings the colours to hold up against the wall.
Cut to the opening
Made to your width and drop rather than trimmed down from a standard size, so it hangs straight and clears the floor.
Fitted and looked after
Track or pole fitting and installation, then alterations, repairs and cleaning afterwards — all from one company.
Where a string curtain earns its place
Doorways with no door, first of all — a kitchen or store-room opening where a hinged door would be in the way. The strings part as you walk through and fall back on their own.
Then the openings inside a room: an open wardrobe recess, a laundry alcove, the gap between a living area and a corridor. A string curtain softens that edge without darkening anything behind it.
What it won't do is privacy or light control. You can see through it, particularly from the lit side towards the dark one, and at a window it stops almost nothing. Where a window needs covering, that's a job for a sheer or a blackout — sometimes with a string curtain hung in front of the whole thing for the look of it.
Book a free measuring visit
Tell us your area and the openings you want covered, and we'll bring the colours to you.
How they're made, and how to clean them
The strings are knotted or woven into a header tape at the top and left loose below it. Nothing is threaded on — what looks like beads in a photograph is usually the yarn itself, twisted. They're made in polyester and in cotton, and the number of strings per centimetre is what makes one curtain read dense and another sparse.
Length is cut to the opening rather than bought in a standard drop. A string curtain usually finishes just clear of the floor, so it hangs straight instead of gathering on the tiles.
Cleaning is by hand. A machine tangles the strings into a knot that doesn't come out, so it's a gentle wash or a wipe with a damp cloth, hung back up to dry — no iron, no dryer. They collect dust like everything else here, but they shake out more easily than a woven curtain does.
String curtains in doorways and dividers
Worth knowing before you order
The things people ask on the visit:
- They tangle if you push through the same spot every time. Running a hand along the header sorts it out in a few seconds.
- Darker colours read more solid from across a room; pale ones almost disappear against a lit wall.
- They weigh very little, so the fixing is the least demanding of anything we hang — a slim track or pole is enough.
- They're not a window treatment. If the opening is glass, ask about a sheer instead.
- In a doorway used every day, a drop that finishes clear of the floor stays tidier and gives small children and pets less to pull at.
Talk to us about your openings
Nothing gets cut or drilled before the measurements and the price are agreed. Call or WhatsApp to arrange a time.