How to Join Shade Cloth

Written By
Sarah Coennen
Sarah Coennen
Published: May 10, 2011
Updated: Nov 20, 2021
1 minute read

Things You Will Need

  • Shade cloth
  • Shade-cloth joining pins

When your shade cloth isn’t large enough to cover the roof in one fell swoop, join several pieces of shade cloth.

  1. Spread out the shade cloth, exposing the sides that you wish to join together.

  2. Overlap the shade-cloth edges and line up the seams as well as you can. You may or may not be able to line up the seams perfectly because of the type of shade cloth or the manufacturer, but as long as the corners of the fabric match up, you should be fine.

  3. Push one of the joining pins into the overlapped edges of the shade cloth. Weave the pin through the shade cloth in an “over-under” fashion.

  4. Pull back on the pin to lock the pin into place. Continue applying pins every few inches until the shade cloth is completely joined.

Tips

You can purchase joining pins online or at shops that sell shade cloth.

Warnings

If the pins are not secure, they will fall out, causing the shade cloth to fall apart.

Sarah Coennen

Sarah Coennen writes about the medical industry, health, fitness, alternative medicine and animals. She has been a freelance writer since 2009.

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