Not only does Beauti-Vue have an amazing selection of New Old Stock (NOS) materials to make retro woven wood blinds and shades, their stockpile of vintage NOS brightly colored decorative edge trim to go with — or to buy separately for your own window treatment projects — was amazing. Yowza — it was a virtual rainbow of options! In fact, there is so much of this trim that I’m not even sure of how many styles and colors there are!
To give you an idea of the volume of trim we are talking about here, the top three rows of this massive metal shelving unit in the back of Beauti-Vue’s workshop are filled with decorative trim…
… and so is most of this neighboring shelving unit. They’ve tried to keep it organized by color, so if you are interested in finding a specific color of trim, it should be fairly easy for them to determine (1) if they have it, and (2) how much is available.
Kristin and Joy were kind enough to yank a few samples of the trim — in several styles and colors — out of the storage shelves for me to photograph. As you can see, they have a variety of vivid colors — olive green, red, harvest gold, bright yellow, blue, hot pink and emerald green just to name a few.
Above: As an idea of what may be lurking in Beauti-Vue’s storage shelves, I spotted four styles of fringe in an array of colors within the pages of their vintage catalog. As you can see from my sample shots, they still have fringe style “X” and “L” in several colors, and perhaps there may be some of the other two styles remaining in their stash as well — just call and ask!
The trim itself is just gorgeous — such beautiful saturated colors!
Personally, I contemplated just buying a length of trim in every color so I could ogle them, but I somehow resisted the urge. However, now that I am thinking about it, I am highly tempted to order some trim to add to the cafe curtains in my kitchen.
When combined with the company’s stock of NOS retro woven wood blinds, this trim becomes even more fantastic — but it could also be used for many other applications including: gluing onto the tracks of their NOS plastic lollipop bead curtains, attaching it to fabric cafe curtains in a vintage style kitchen, decorating lampshades, and — what other uses can you think of?
The Harvest Gold decorative tassel trim on this woven wood Roman shade really adds a nice finishing touch, don’t you agree?
Buy this trim:
- To be used on your custom shade or blind order.
- Or by the yard for your own products.
- Pricing will depends on the style and color chosen — contact the Beauti-Vue Products Corp. to check color and style availability and pricing.
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Kersten says
My heart has been fluttering all week because of this discovery, and since I’m in Minneapolis, just a days drive away, I am going to propose that my husband and I make this our destination in celebration of our 15 year wedding anniversary! It’s only a couple weeks away, and I can see that I’m going to need to visit this slice of heaven in person to make the best choices! The traditional gift for 15 years is Crystal, which I will transcribe to BLING, which, I’m quite sure, is the same as Fancy Tassels!
pam kueber says
🙂 Make sure you call first, it’s not a showroom …
Eliza says
guilty conscience!!!! Our 1965 ranch had cafe curtains in the kitchen that had white pompom fringe. But it was so dusty and yellowed that I got rid of them and replaced them with red and white checked cafes.
Mary Elizabeth says
Eliza, it isn’t too late. You can add some red pompoms for those curtains even now. No reason to feel guilty for throwing out stuff that is dirty and can’t be cleaned.
Madeline says
I wonder if they still have pompom trim style “P” available in no. 7 green…? My husband and I are restoring a 1975 Silver Cross pram in two-tone green and need replacement trim for the hood. (The original ribbon was falling apart, so we thought we’d do something a little different.) Baby is due in 9 weeks and the pram isn’t finished yet…! I’d give them a call, but we’re currently living in England! Any chance someone could ask for us?
(Love this webpage, by the way! It’s a good thing we’re not back home in the ‘States yet. we’d go broke outfitting everything 70’s style!)
pam kueber says
Here’s an email that I found on their website retailinfo@beautivue.com (click here to send e-mail to us)
Scott says
And those of us who think matchy-matchy is a good thing could have coordinated blinds and lampshades!
Dan says
These trims are also good for upholstery projects such as sofas and chairs. Many of these trims were used on Hollywood Regency style or 1940’s era sofas.
pam kueber says
Yes, I agree!