Flock Melody at Blinds By Post is a roller range that keeps its cards close: 4 colourways from £13.98, cassette and motorised versions in the listings, and no descriptive shade names to steer by - the swatches below do the talking. The name itself is the one clue on offer. Flock has traditionally described a raised, velvety surface, and Melody is a mood rather than a hue, so the label points towards texture and softness without pinning down a single colour. Read it as a fabric-first range and judge it by eye.

Who it suits

The roller format is the practical baseline for most rooms: the blind stacks onto its tube when raised, clears the glass completely, and asks almost nothing of the wall around it. Where a texture-led cloth earns its place is in rooms that see the blind up close - living rooms, bedrooms and studies where the window dressing reads as part of the furnishing rather than a flat panel of colour. If the cloth delivers the surface its name gestures at, it will bring more depth at close quarters than a plain weave does.

The fittings follow the usual logic. A cassette headrail encloses the roll for a neater top line, worth having where the blind hangs at eye level or inside a shallow recess. Motorisation suits wide or high glass and windows over sinks and worktops where a dangling chain is a nuisance. And because the range publishes no colour names, samples are not a nicety here but the sensible first step: order swatches, look at them in the room they are destined for, and let your eyes do what the listing titles will not.

The colours

4 colours available

Fitting

The grid above is the range's real shade card, because the shop attaches no colour names to its four colourways - there is no Pebble or Charcoal to anchor your expectations, just the swatches themselves. That is less strange than it sounds for a fabric sold on feel: when a cloth's name leans on texture, how the tone sits in your room matters more than what a label would call it. Treat the four as a family to compare side by side, remember that any surface with depth to it reads differently in morning and evening light, and order physical samples rather than trusting a screen's guess at the finish.

Price by your dimensions

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Price down 4% since 23 Aug. (our checks since 12 Jun)

The entry point sits at the accessible end of made-to-measure rollers, and the from-price belongs to the smallest cut in the size range. Width and drop set the real figure, with the cassette and motorised versions carrying their own steps up from the basic blind - a motor in particular adds cost in any range, so weigh it against how often the window is actually used.

How it compares

Flock Melody is not a Blinds By Post exclusive. The same name appears at Blinds Direct, Roller Blinds Direct and So Easy Blinds among the retailers we track, and each shop prices its own make-up of the cloth independently, so the same window can come out at noticeably different figures from shop to shop. Our Flock Melody comparison puts the four side by side at your measurements; with a fabric several shops cut, it is the obvious check before ordering.

Within the shop's own roller shelf, the sensible comparison is with the plain ranges: they offer wider palettes and named shades for similar money, while Flock Melody's case rests on surface interest. Anyone whose priority is darkness rather than texture should weigh a blackout roller instead, since nothing in this range's naming claims that job.

A note on care

Clean on the assumption that the surface is the point. Dust with a soft brush or the vacuum's upholstery head, stroking in one direction rather than scrubbing, and lift marks by dabbing with a barely damp cloth - rubbing at a raised finish flattens or shines it, and that is the one damage no cleaning undoes. Keep the blind dry, let it roll evenly, and square the cloth on the tube if it drifts towards one end, because a roll that winds off-true creases along the edge over time. Cassette slots gather dust and want the occasional pass of the vacuum; the motorised versions need only fresh handset batteries and sensible restraint about anything electrical.

Likely the same fabric, at other retailers

Flock Melody roller blinds are sold under the same name by more than one UK retailer, and the price scales identically across window sizes - a strong sign it is the same fabric from the same supplier:

  • Blinds By Post this page from £13.98
  • Roller Blinds Direct from £17.86
  • Wilsons Blinds from £21.01
  • Blinds Direct from £23.07
  • So Easy Blinds from £68.15

We match these on the shared name and an identical price curve, not an independent inspection, so treat it as likely the same fabric rather than confirmed - and check the specification and colour at each retailer before buying.

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