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Venetian Blinds

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Venetian blinds are a popular cheap window covering for home and offices alike. The most common styles for your office or home are built of synthetic polymers. More expensive models use natural materials like wood..

Slat blinds, which consist of many horizontal, flat slats, usually of metal or vinyl, connected with string in a way that they can be rotated to allow light to pass between the slats, rotated 90 degrees to hide the light, or pulled to sit against each other so that the entire window is clear. The rotation of the blinds is achieved by rotating a connector attached to the strings or by pulling a cord; the raising and lowering of the blinds is achieved by pulling a different string. Such blinds include:

Venetian blinds, basic slatted blind made of metal or plastic; wooden slats are sometimes used but these are usually referred to as wood blinds. Venetian blinds were introduced around 1770, possibly in Venice, Italy.

Venetian blind offshoots:

· Woven-wood blinds, which are slats of decorative wood, bamboo, or other natural material woven together with simple string, colored yarn, or other decorative material to make a nearly solid blind; these either roll up out of the way or fold up out of the way.

· Vertical blinds, or track blinds, consisting of slats of stiffened fabric, plastic, or metal hanging by one end from a track; like the horizontal versions, the slats can be rotated 90 degrees to allow light to pass through or to fold up on one side of a door or window.

· Roman shades, made of fabric or woven wood, that pull up by having each section of the shade fold behind a higher section.