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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a business opportunity here? I get that a big cost of custom treatments is in the labor. What about setting up a workshop in a place with low labor costs like the midwest, and shipping the completed work to this area? Or do they already do that?[/quote]

No. A) they already do that and B) all the profit is in marking up the fabric. Making the panels is practically just a retail service. You might not even “pay” for all the labor (of course, you could call that a discount on the markup. It’s a competitive market so your price is probably P=2(wholesale materials)+.8(labor cost) or something already).

Fabric is really expensive and it takes a lot of fabric to make drapes. One window in my guest room with 1.5 panels is 9 yards of fabric. There are two windows I don’t have the real numbers but let’s say lining and interlining are $5/yard.

If I pick a nice, midrange fabric at $50/yard, I’m looking at

18*60=1080, plus maybe $200 for the rods, before any labor. And those are more like wholesale fabric prices. Plus really I want the $75/yard fabric. [/quote]

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