12-Feet x 15-Feet Canvas Drop Cloth HW1215

We live in a converted warehouse and our apartment has huge 14 foot windows. I couldn't figure out how to find curtains that looked heavy and expensive, but also didn't blow our budget out of the water. Then I found these drop cloths and they're perfect. I cut them in half (using the stitched seam down the middle as my guide) and then used iron-on hem tape to hem the unfinished edges(the curtains come hemmed so I only had to finish the edges I cut). I then taped out lines and painted inside them to create 2 navy blue stripes around the outside edges. They came out beautiful! They look tailored and expensive! Bottom line, you could use these for so many different projects - upholstery, pillows, tablecloths, stretch it over foam board or a wood frame and paint on it...etc. The fabric is great quality and it has a really yummy natural smell too. Enjoy!

A blog suggested drop cloths for pillow covers and sun shades and I immediately thought curtains. My soon-to-be-built home is less than 1000sf with a very open floor plan. No doors on the bedroom or study - just one foot wide walls on either side of the entry in the rooms with a 10 ft wide opening into the bedroom and a 6 foot wide opening into the study. These curtains will hang from a large, industrial-style rod with large grommets and looped wire curtain 'hooks'. The hems will be very deep and at least 4 inches off the floor and the curtains will be very full and will sway when closed across the doorways. I bought the smallest size of this drop cloth and put it through the washer and dryer. It's the most gorgeous fabric...soft and slightly 'dimpled' for texture. So I bought more to make my doorway curtains. Going to make aprons out of the smaller one I bought first. Or maybe a summer, outdoor tablecloth. Or napkins. Maybe I need to order more of this stuff!

I bought this to cover a sofa that I bought that is a dark red background with flowers. This sofa I want to put on the patio and needed a heavy canvas material to withstand the Florida sun and weather. This was the best canvas for the price, and I went all over to find the right material. I am going to paint it with fabric paint to have a pleasant looking sofa. The wood part of the sofa is bamboo so I will keep in with the tropical theme of the bamboo. The red part with the flowers just doesn't do the sofa justice. Will send a picture when the sofa is covered. The canvas is a very good quality and will lend itself to the painting and the covering of the sofa.

Very good quality. This is a very large drop cloth & has one seam located about the middle of the piece. I've washed & dried them. Came out of the dryer very very soft. I plan to make "curtains" for my front Veranda style porch. Curtains I can open and close for privacy. I was able to bleach the tan color to a lighter sort of "off white". I think they're great, Quality and value wise!

Judging from the other reviews, some people use this drop cloth material to make curtains. Perhaps an artist would disagree, but it looks good for use as a canvas for painting. At any rate it definitely works to cover floors and furniture for painting the house. A strong double hem surrounds the perimeter of this material and I tied loops with string at each corner, to have tie down capability. I use this drop cloth outside to cover freshly epoxied surfaces for protection from UV sunlight. The cloth could make table cloths, too.

Beware! This is NOT appropriate for house painting! I bought several of cloths and turned them over to my (professional) painter, a man who has painted houses all his adult life. He’s used zillions of drop-cloths. This morning, he showed me where latex paint drips got onto the drop-cloth — and went right through to the brand-new hardwood floor. I notice that many reviewers of this drop-cloth are using it for drapes or a furniture cover, and not for painting. Fine, use it for drapes, but don’t use it for painting. You will likely regret it. Once it’s used, as in our case, you’re stuck with the darn thing. This drop-cloth is fraud. Caveat emptor. (Buyer beware.) Calvin Luther Martin, PhD

I saw a gorgeous photo, which I saved on my ipad as inspiration, of a totally loose slipcovered sofa, and that's how I used this dropcloth. No sewing required. I really have a large-ish loveseat in my den; the measurement from outside of the arm to outside other arm is 76 inches. The back and cushions are typical size-wise. At first I thought the 12 x 15 was entirely too huge, but I figured I could trim the excess after I washed it. I knew from having used two 9 x 12s as bedroom curtains that these do in fact shrink quite a bit. This one was approximately 10 ft 8 inches x 14 ft 3 inches after being washed and dried. Also, it is so bulky that it barely fit in my very large capacity LG front loader so you may need to go to the laundromat. So my inspiration photo had the slipcover puddled on the floor a bit, so I positioned mine like that (with help from my husband) and we tucked down inside the arms and behind the seat cushions. I then used the trick I've read about to keep the fabric in place...I rolled up thin magazines and put rubberbands around them and tucked them down in the crevices. When all tucked in, the dropcloth did not need to be trimmed. The fabric is really nice...kind of linen-like, thick in a good way, and sturdy. My loveseat is navy blue and you see no hint of color through the dropcloth. There are two seams, which are really close to the outer edges of my loveseat seat cushions, so they don't look odd at all. I think if you wanted a more fitted look, the easiest thing (straight line sewing only) would be to remove all the cushions, drape the cloth on it. Then use more dropcloths, cut as needed, and sew pillowcases like the kind on your bed. Plan so no seams show prominently. Fold the excess cloth back or under so you don't see it. If I didn't have the beautiful inspiration photo of the loose slipcover, that's what I would have done. I have on order from amazon two cable knit throw pillows in a light cream color, and I have a cream colored throw on the back of the loveseat. I have a glass and metal coffeetable with a few large books and some "objets d'art" in front. The look is very chic and sophisticated, as highly unlikely as that sounds for a loose slipcover. Highly recommend this dropcloth for home decor projects. 4 stars because they shrink. I'm not complaining, just saying...don't expect 12 x 15.

I bought this to replace a torn canopy cover for our backyard gazebo. The size is perfect, and the weight and strength are EXCELLENT. I had intended to waterproof this with silicone spray, but we threw it up in a pinch without waterproofing, and amazingly, this keeps our back patio dry! WOW! Also, I'd wanted to install grommets for the places we secured it to the frame, but again, we wanted to put this up quickly as the baking summer sun out west made relaxing outside unbearable without shade, so we've just used zip ties through small punctures to secure, and even with strong desert winds this has held up with hardly any tearing of the fabric. Finally, this provides great shade and glare and heat reduction while still letting a nice glow come through.