Inverted Pleat Drapery
The mirror of box pleat — folds tucked behind the panel face, leaving a clean, flat heading and a quietly tailored front.
What is this style?
Inverted pleat folds the fabric inward at the heading and tacks it behind the panel face. The visible top edge reads as a clean, flat line; the fullness is hidden behind the panel and falls out below the heading as soft, even folds.
We specify inverted pleat in tailored, contemporary, and quietly modern rooms where the brief asks for the discipline of a pleated heading without any visible pleat at all.
- Tailored contemporary primary suites
- Modern dining rooms
- Studies and libraries
- Primary suites
- Dining rooms
- Studies
- Libraries
- Tailored contemporary
- Modern traditional
- Soft modernist
- Heavyweight linen and linen blends
- Wool and wool-blend cloth for libraries
- Cotton-linen blends for transitional rooms
Reads correctly at 8 to 14 ft. The clean heading carries cleanly into taller rooms when interlined.
Compatible with hardwired DC motors on rod or ceiling track.
Stacks at 18–22% of rod width.
Advantages
- Cleanest visible heading of any pleated style
- Hides fullness behind the panel face
- Reads as tailored without decorative pleat rhythm
- Works in tailored, contemporary, and modern traditional rooms equally well
Questions homeowners ask about Inverted Pleat
- Does inverted pleat hold its shape?
- When interlined and the back tacks are sewn into a stable buckram, yes. Without interlining, the heading relaxes.
- When would you specify inverted pleat over ripple fold?
- When the room wants a rod-mounted, flat-heading reading rather than a track-mounted continuous wave. Inverted pleat is rod-friendly; ripple fold is not.
Specify Inverted Pleat with confidence.
The fabric, the budget, and the built work — three places to read further before the consultation.
How Heavyweight linen and linen blends performs in a Inverted Pleat heading
The studio's working library of fabrics — weight, hand, fall, and which cloths Inverted Pleat was engineered for.
Drapery Cost GuideWhat Inverted Pleat costs in a custom Los Angeles specification
Heading, fullness, lining, hardware, and motorization — the line items that drive a tailored drapery budget.
Inverted Pleat in built work
Project case studies from the Custom Drapery Los Angeles by Duroque library featuring Inverted Pleat.
Browse the full project library →Talk with Olga about whether Inverted Pleat is the right answer for your room.
Every consultation begins with the architecture, not the swatch book. We will walk the room with you and tell you which heading the room is asking for — even if it is not the one you came in expecting.
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