Choose Your Fabric for your shade sail or canopy
With a vast array of colors and manufactures how do you choose the fabric for your shade sails or Canopy? All awnings, shade sails and canopies can enhance the visual appeal of any area or building.
Bold colors like red and orange create highly effective focal points where earth tones such as greens and sand colors can unify the structure within the area blending into the area. Incorporate colors such as blue and grey to provide contrast.
Shade Sail Fabric
Our most frequently used shade sail fabric is Commercial Ninety-Five®.
This fabric is made from a strong HDPE fabric that’s recyclable and will not rot or absorb water. Perfect for medium scale applications.
Commercial Ninety-Five® offers a 10-year sun degradation limited warranty.
We have worked with SolaMesh® 100’s of times therefore we are familiar and comfortable working this fabric.
Manufactured from highly stable HDPE monofilament cloth.
SolaMesh® Carries 10-year limited sun degradation warranty.
We use Commercial Heavy 430® on almost all of our larger scale shade sail projects.
Made from 100% round monofilament yarn with a patented intertwining knit pattern. Designed for large scale projects, Commercial Heavy carries a 15-year limited sun degradation warranty.
Polytex® is made from a lead and heavy metal free HDPE. We have utilized this fabric in several previous projects, and it has proven to be highly capable for medium-scale applications.
Comtex® is a knitted HDPE shade sail fabric with a superior fire rating. Designed for medium to large applications.
Architec400® is a heavy-duty knitted HDPE shade sail fabric specifically designed for large commercial shade sails or fabric shade structures.
Awning Fabric
Sunbrella® is the premiere awning fabric and is the standard fabric we use on all of our awnings and retractable awnings.
Durable Sunbrella® fibers infused with color and UV-stabilized pigments, ensuring our fabrics will not fade or become damaged by the sun.
Sunbrella® Carries a 10-year limited sun degradation warranty
Other Fabric Structures
We have designed and installed as well as recovered many vinyl tensioned structures. We have used a few vinyl manufacturers and our most frequent vinyl we use is Serge Ferrari Soltis 502®.
Our customers can choose between Textilene® and Suntex® solar screen manufacturers for our drop rolls. Each offer three solar screen opacities and a variety of colors.
Modern synthetic yarns enhance fabric shade structures with strength and flexibility more than ever before. Coatings, laminates, and top coatings provide outdoor fabrics with protective attributes. Today’s modern shade fabrics can withstand wind, sun, rain and snow, yet they still retain strength, and attractive looks years after year.
NO matter what your design objective, shade sails and shade canopies provide protection from extreme weather and are a more economical approach than comparable masonry or timber structures.
All Shade cloths are rigorously tested in labs and field situations for weathering, durability and flame retardancy. The fabrics we use for shade sails will differ in weight and translucency.
For more information at the materials we commonly use on shade sails and canopies please visit our Shade cloth page. There you will find downloadable fabric swatches of each shade cloth manufacture we use.
