Most made-to-measure fabrics live and die in one shop's catalogue. Bamboo Pacific is the exception: a roller blind fabric that turns up, under the same name, at seven of the UK retailers we track. This page covers the Blinds By Post version, where the range runs to 48 colourways with prices starting from £16.80, and where the catalogue lists it three ways - as a standard roller, as a cassette, and as a motorised cassette.

One piece of housekeeping first: despite the name, this is not a bamboo blind. Woven-wood blinds are a different product entirely. What Blinds By Post sells under the Bamboo Pacific name is a conventional made-to-measure roller - a flat panel of cloth on a rolling tube, cut to your window - and everything below should be read in that light.

Who it suits

The opacity on offer is standard, which sets the terms. A standard roller softens daylight rather than blocking it: the room stays bright, the glare comes off the glass, and daytime privacy is covered. After dark with the lights on, outlines can show through - so a bedroom that needs true darkness is better served by a blackout range than by this one.

Where it belongs is the working rooms of the house: kitchens, sitting rooms, home offices, landings. The cassette version boxes the rolled fabric into an enclosed headrail, which suits windows where the top of the blind sits in plain view. The motorised version - built, as the catalogue titles suggest, on the cassette format - earns its keep on tall or awkward windows and anywhere a dangling chain is unwelcome, not least around small children.

The colours

48 colours available

Fitting

The palette is compact at 48 colourways, and only one of them arrives with a name we can quote: Wild Garden Poppy. That is a print name, not a paint-chart one, and it signals a range with a decorative streak - a fabric christened after a flower is promising pattern rather than another flat neutral. A short card is no failing; it makes the choice quicker. But names only carry you so far, and a print in particular needs to be seen at full scale, in your own light, before it goes on order. The sample stage is not optional here - it is the whole game.

Price by your dimensions

Enter your window size. We round up to the next standard size, which matches how the retailer actually quotes you.

Price around its usual level (checked since 12 Jun).

Made-to-measure pricing is a grid: width across, drop down, cost rising with both. The from-price of £16.80 belongs to the smallest size, and the table above does the honest work of pricing your actual window. Measure the width and drop in three places, work from the tightest figures, and remember that the cassette and motorised versions are listed as their own products with their own grids - so price the version you will actually order.

How it compares

Inside Blinds By Post's catalogue, Bamboo Pacific is the compact, name-led option beside the big plain ranges, with the cassette and motorised listings covering the practical upgrades. The more interesting story is outside the shop. This is one of the most widely travelled fabric names on our books: Bamboo Pacific appears at six other UK retailers we track - Blinds Direct, Motorised Blinds, New Blinds, Roller Blinds Direct, Vertical Blinds Direct and Wilsons Blinds - and prices for the same window differ from shop to shop, with the gaps moving as sizes change. The shop that wins at one set of measurements does not always win at the next, and with seven shops selling one fabric, our Bamboo Pacific comparison is the shortest route to the right one for your dimensions.

Look elsewhere if you need real darkness, if you want a forty-shade plain palette to run through a whole house, or if what you are actually after is a bamboo blind in the literal, woven sense - that is a different aisle altogether.

A note on care

Rollers ask very little. Every few weeks, run a soft brush or the upholstery attachment of a vacuum over the fabric, top to bottom, with the blind fully lowered. Treat marks with a damp cloth - dab, do not rub, and never soak the fabric - then leave the blind down until it is completely dry, because moisture rolled into the tube is how mildew starts. Dust the slot of the cassette now and then, run a motorised blind through its full travel occasionally to keep it moving sweetly, and the fabric should outlast the paintwork around it.