Velcro Design Analysis

Can you tell that the tabs here are not slidable along the rod? They have been securely tied down to the rod on the inside of the tab! The tying "ribbons" have been sewn onto the inside of the tabs, which are open flaps with a velcroed end. After tying the flap securely onto the rod, the flap can be flipped over and velcroed onto the inside of the top edge of the curtain … This way, the curtain can be hung up and taken down without having to remove the rods. Taking the rods down is quite a task, requiring some un-screwing, not to mention the handling of its length and weight. This Velcro design, originally intended to eliminate the need for rod-removal, turned out to be a significant advantage when it comes to attaching the ribbons onto the
This way, you can have the best of both worlds - have the tabs securely fastened, yet, not leave any tell-tale signs!

Both the hidden ribbons as well as the conspicuous ribbons served the purpose well enough. The former was actually more suitable for thicker fabrics with Velcro-fastened tabs, whilst the latter looked great for the softer kind of fabric and for smaller, fixed-loop kind of tabs.

And the solutions to my wind-swept curtain problem are not limited to these two … Some years later, when the novelty of the decorative ribbons wore out and when I got sick of tying dozens of ribbons after each curtain wash, I came up with another idea - I just used blu-tack to stick the inside of the tabs onto the rod! Creative juices are limitless if we keep them flowing … if we keep challenging ourselves!

The best part of all these solutions is in the cost - about a dollar a year for each window! Affordable to say the least! Am I glad I did not entertain my extravagant thought of changing all the curtains in the house back to the dated rail-track system! Didn't I tell you that the entire curtain experience challenged my out-of-the-box thinking to its limits? A most satisfying experience
My experience over the years tells me that this simple piece of paper is a much sought after instrument. This is a somewhat curious phenomenon. To me, such certificates should not have much value, simply because they show merely what have gone in, the inputs, but carries no indication whatsoever as to how well the substance taught has been assimilated. Perhaps, in paper qualification-fanatical Singapore, such certificates are deemed to raise an employee's marketability. Anyway, the WHY of it all is not important. I recognise that it is a customer requirement. And that’s sacro-sanct! So, whatever the reasons for the demand, I have always taken the task of designing this instrument as seriously as I deliver my seminars, courses and training programs. This means that I would like to design a certificate that my participants will be proud to own, will admire like a piece of art, and that will stand out amongst their collections. Till this day, I am still trying to figure out the answer to this puzzle. Help me out ... I am going to present you with two certificate designs. Which certificate would you rather have, if you were one of my