Café: A traversing or non-traversing short drapery, designed as a tier, with various heading styles.
Café rod: A small, round decorative rod used to mount café curtains that do not have a rod pocket. Café rods are meant to be seen and add a decorative touch to the window treatment.
Canopy: A fabric bed treatment that goes over the top of a specialty bed frame.
Cantonniere: A three sided, shaped or straight cornice that “frames” the window across the top and part way down the two sides. It is usually made of hardboard, padded and covered with fabric.
Carriers: (AKA slides) Small runners installed in the traverse rod, which hold a drapery pin or hook.
Cartridge pleat: A fold of cloth sewn into place to create fullness in a drapery. This is a round pleat 2 – 2½ inches in depth. Stuffing the pleat with buckram that may be removed for cleaning creates a round shape.
Cascade: (AKA tails) Often used with swags, a fall of knife-pleated fabric that descends in a zigzag line from the drapery heading or top treatment. They should be self- or contrast lined.
Casement:
A. Fabric: A cloth drapery that is an open-weave material but more opaque than a sheer.
B. Window: A type of vertically hinged window
Casing:
A. Fabric: A pocket made in fabric for a curtain rod, weight board or drawstring.
B. Window: A wooden frame around the window.
Center draw: (AKA Split draw) A traversing pair of draperies, which draws open from and closes to a window’s center point.
Center support: A piece of hardware, which supports a traverse rod from above to prevent the rod from sagging, yet does not interfere with the rod operation. A wood or metal support is used for poles and metal rods that do not traverse; they are supported from underneath the rod.
Chain weights: A continuous chain of small heavy beads covered in a casing, used to prevent billowing in lightweight fabric.