Glimpse is a light-filtering roller blind fabric with a soft, semi-translucent weave that admits a good level of natural daylight while still providing daytime privacy. It is sold under the same name by three UK retailers - Swift Direct Blinds, Blinds By Post, and So Easy Blinds - and the way prices scale as windows get larger strongly suggests they are all cutting from the same, or very closely matched, wholesale cloth.
That said, the similarities in fabric are likely where the uniformity ends. The three retailers diverge noticeably on the choices they give you.
Colour range is the first fork in the road. Swift Direct Blinds carries twelve colours, splitting the core palette into plain and "Twist" variants - Gaze, Blush, Brulee, Oyster, Noir, and Snow appear in both forms. Blinds By Post and So Easy Blinds each list eight colours, adding Sage and Denim but without the Twist variants. If you want a Twist colour, Swift Direct is your only option; if you want Sage or Denim, you must use one of the other two.
Fittings tell a similar story. Blinds By Post is the most flexible, offering standard, cassette, and motorised options. So Easy Blinds offers standard and perfect-fit - useful if you have UPVC double-glazing and want a no-drill installation. Swift Direct covers standard only.
Because the fabric is effectively fixed across retailers, there is no trade-off on cloth quality to weigh up. The decision comes down to the colour you want, the fitting your window needs, and which retailer prices most competitively at the specific width and drop you measured - the headline "from" prices are based on the smallest available size and can shift considerably as dimensions grow.
Lowest at 1200×1200 mm: Swift Direct Blinds at £70.00. Enter your own size below to compare at the window you are buying.
Prices below are for a 1200×1200 mm window. Enter yours to re-rank - we round up to the next standard size, as the retailers do.
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Swift Direct Blindsbest value£70.00 at 1200×1200 mmfrom £10.75
- 12 colours
- Fittings: standard
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Blinds By Post£99.00 at 1200×1200 mmfrom £58.00
- 8 colours
- Fittings: standard, plus cassette, motorised
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So Easy Blinds£100.00 at 1200×1200 mmfrom £68.15
- 8 colours
- Fittings: standard, plus perfect-fit
We match these on the shared name and a price that scales the same way across window sizes, not an independent inspection, so treat it as likely the same fabric rather than confirmed. Construction, exact colourway and fitting can vary between retailers - check the specification at each before buying.