Decorative fabric drapery system

Claim 1

A decorative fabric drapery system forming draw drapes arranged as a pair of drapery modules to be supported from a conventional traverse rod mechanism or the like mounted on an adjacent wall surface and movable from extended closed position to retracted open position flanking a wall area to be framed thereby, the drapery modules each comprising an integral fabric web of chosen drapery height formed into three vertically elongated rectangular outwardly facing front panels of a predetermined panel width such that two of such panel widths collectively equal a selected minimum open drapery module span and an intervening rearfold panel between each pair of such front panels, the fabric web for each module also including drapery seam formations laterally bounding said front panels along their full height defining the opposite vertical edges of each front panel, said intervening rearfold panels being of narrower width than said front panels appropriate when folded rearwardly about their vertical center line to extend substantially to said adjacent wall surface, means for securing together opposite vertical edge portions of said respective rearfold panels immediately adjacent and joining said seam formations of the pair of said front panels flanking the same to retain the rearfold panels in such rearwardly folded condition, the middle front panel of said three front panels being connected to the traverse rod system to be folded rearwardly into collapsed position disposing its opposite laterally bounding seam formations in substantially abutting relation when the drapery modules are drawn to retracted open position, and means at the tops of the outermost front panels flanking said middle front panel retaining said outermost front panels continuously in fully extended flat condition so that they always remain in a common vertical plane at both the closed and open positions of the drapery system.