Our Factory

ShadeForge manufactures zebra and sheer shades in Ontario, Canada, and sells direct to homeowners and trade.

ShadeForge makes zebra and sheer shades in Ontario, Canada. We are a manufacturer that sells direct, not a storefront that orders from someone else.

Why that matters to you

When the people who cut the fabric also answer the phone, problems get fixed instead of forwarded. Every shade is cut, assembled and inspected here before it is boxed, and a shade that is not right does not ship.

What we build

We specialise in zebra shades, also called sheer or dual shades: alternating bands of sheer and solid fabric on a single roller, cut to your exact window. They are raised and lowered with a continuous-loop chain, and our workshop sets the drop to suit the window. We also make roller blinds on the same machines, in four of the materials below, and Shangri-La shades, soft fabric vanes held between two sheer layers, in two materials, each on its own price.

Made in Canada

Manufacturing here means shorter lead times, no cross-border surprises, and a short line between you and the people who actually built your shade. There is no minimum order: one shade is a perfectly good order.

The materials we stock

Every one of these is a material we hold and cut from, photographed here rather than taken from a supplier’s catalogue. Each carries the number our workshop orders it by, so when you tell us a number on the phone we are both talking about the same cloth.

The sample wall at the ShadeForge workshop in Richmond Hill: twenty-four shades, each on a frame of its own
All our materials on one wall at the workshop in Richmond Hill: zebra shades, roller blinds and Shangri-La shades, each on a frame of its own.

Zebra shades

Alternating sheer and solid bands on one roller. Line the solid bands up to close the window, slide them apart for daylight.

Material 1Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 2Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 3Zebra shade
Material 5Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 7Zebra shade
Material 8Zebra shade
Material 9Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 10Zebra shade
Material 11Zebra shade
Material 13Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 16Zebra shade
Material 17Zebra shade
Material 19Zebra shade
Material 24Zebra shade
Material 27Zebra shade
Material 28Zebra shade
Material 30Zebra shade, room-darkening
Material 32Zebra shade

Roller blinds

One panel of fabric on the roller, with no bands. Made the same way, on its own price.

Material 20Roller blind
Material 21Roller blind
Material 22Roller blind
Material 31Roller blind

Shangri-La shades

Soft fabric vanes held between two sheer layers. The chain tilts the vanes open or closed, then rolls the whole shade up into its cassette. Priced by size on its own line. More about Shangri-La shades

Material 33Shangri-La shade
Material 35Shangri-La shade, room-darkening

Not sure from a photograph? Order free samples and hold them up in your own light, or see one in a photo of your window.

Made up on our own frames