Bolivia is famed for it bi-color ametrine featuring violet of amethyst combined with the golden color of citrine. The high crystal character produces a deep color with excellent brilliance. This material was unusual for it crystalline shape and unusually high clarity making this material a cutters dream.

After the Zambian source played out a new supply was discovered in Uruguay. The pink and bi-color clear and purple amethysts are unique to Brazil. Rarely the top Siberian colors but Brazil is famed for its quantity and size of its amethyst found a Maraba, Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia. Brazil has been the producer of the largest quantity of material over the years. Little material has been seen from this source since the mid 1990s. A single piece of larger rough often required 10 saw cuts to get to clean material that could be faceted. The problem with this material for the cutter was the large amount of inclusions that had to be worked around. In the 1980’s through the 1990’s the top source was Zambia which produced large quantities of top material with blue and red secondary’s that produced a velvety color that at the time was unrivaled. The top material is named after a source in Russia although I personally have never seen a top color amethyst from Siberia. I found this material from a Brazilian dealer in Tucson in 2011. This material was last available 30 years ago shortly after I started in the business and then were not available for more than 25 years. Recently lavender pinks have been found in Brazil that can occasionally have the look of fine kunzite and morganite. The advantage of some of the lighter colors is that they can exhibit excellent brilliance. With proper cutting all of these colors can be very attractive. The top colors will exhibit this secondary red or blue flashes of color and only can be seen in the deeper colors of amethyst.Īmethyst is more commonly found in tones from light purple and violet to lavender pink. This color is the color of concord grapes with a secondary red flash when viewed in incandescent lighting. As common as the mineral quartz is, the finest amethyst commonly known as “Siberian color” is quite rare. Quartz is the most common mineral in the earths crust. We do insert the hooks into the heading tape of wave curtains, the hooks need to be specifically placed to ensure the wave spacing, therefore your wave heading curtains will be ready to hang when they arrive.Amethyst is the violet to purple form of quartz. Wave works very well with sheer fabrics and light weight fabrics – we would not recommend the wave heading style with a heavy weight fabric, if you are unsure of your choice of fabric being suitable for wave, just get in touch for advise. The wave style stacks back very neatly when the curtains are open and would suit a very modern, minimalist or contemporary interior. The finished product tends to look similar to the drape of an eyelet curtain, but the curtain hangs directly below the track and always forms perfect ‘waves’.

The Tracks are best suited to be ceiling fixed, but can be wall mounted too. Wave curtains require a specific track configured to the wave style, in order for the finished appearance to work how it is designed. Wave Curtain heading is the newest heading to be introduced, it creates a very neat stylish and continuous wave effect curtain which looks perfect on both open and closed curtains. The width of pinch pleat curtains are made specifically for the track/pole length given to us, the width cannot be adjusted. The metal hooks can be adjusted to raise or lower the curtain, therefor there is some flexibility to achieve the perfect curtain drop. The metal hooks are hooked through the small eyelet on the bottom of the curtain pole rings or the small hole on the bottom of curtain track gliders. Metal hooks are inserted into the pleats at the back of the curtain which allows you to hang the curtains when they arrive.

There is no tape across the back of the curtain (like pencil pleat) we use a stiffening buckram within the curtain heading to form crisp pinch pleats. Our pinch pleats are all 12.5cm deep and hand finished to ensure the neatest look. Pinch Pleat curtains work best when hung from a pole rather than on a track, they will stack back very neatly when open in a relatively small space. We offer both double pinch pleat and triple pinch pleat options, the double pinch offers a more modern look, whilst the triple pinch pleat reflects a more classic style of curtain. Pinch Pleat is a classic decorative curtain heading style, the ‘pinches’ give a neat, uniform and tailored finish to the curtain.

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