Luxury Trims & Passementerie: The Details That Make a Room
The most memorable interiors are often defined by the details. A beautifully chosen decorative trim can transform a simple pillow, drapery panel, Roman shade, headboard, or upholstered chair into something that feels completely custom.
At The WorkRoom, we offer an extensive collection of designer trims and luxury passementerie, ranging from tailored tapes and braids to tassels, fringe, cords, gimps, embroidered borders, beaded trims, and classic bullion fringe.
These finishing touches may be small, but their impact can be extraordinary.
What Is Passementerie?
Passementerie is the traditional name for decorative trimmings used to embellish fabric, upholstery, drapery, furniture, and soft furnishings. The category includes everything from decorative tape and braid to fringe, tassels, cords, tiebacks, borders, and elaborate ornamental trims.
Once associated primarily with formal and traditional interiors, passementerie has become an important part of contemporary decorating as well.
Today's designers use trim to introduce color, texture, contrast, and definition without changing the entire fabric scheme. A graphic tape can give plain linen draperies a tailored architectural edge, while a dimensional fringe can completely transform a solid velvet pillow.
The result is a room that feels more considered, layered, and personal.
Designer Trims at The WorkRoom
Our online trim collection brings together thousands of decorative options from many of the textile industry's leading design houses.
Explore trims from Schumacher, Lee Jofa, Brunschwig & Fils, Kravet, Kravet Couture, RM Coco, Scalamandré, Nina Campbell, Osborne & Little, Designers Guild, Mulberry, and Threads, with styles suited to everything from contemporary interiors to richly layered traditional spaces.
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Our collection includes tape trim, braid trim, fringe, tassel trim, cord, gimp, embroidered trim, beaded trim, decorative borders, bullion fringe, drapery tiebacks, chair ties, and outdoor trim, making it easy to find the right finishing detail for nearly any decorating project.
How Designers Use Decorative Trim
One of the most popular applications for designer trim is along the leading edge of drapery panels. A narrow tape or embroidered border creates a defined vertical line and can introduce just enough pattern or color to give a window treatment a custom appearance.
On pillows, trim can be used around the entire perimeter or applied as a decorative band across the face. Even a simple solid fabric can take on an entirely different personality when paired with a contrasting braid, fringe, or cord.
Trim is equally effective on upholstered furniture. Decorative gimp can conceal upholstery tacks and seams, while braid or tape can emphasize the shape of a chair, bench, or headboard.
For a more understated look, designers often pair a fabric with a trim in a closely related color. This tone-on-tone trim adds texture and dimension while keeping the overall palette sophisticated and restrained.
For greater impact, a contrasting trim can become a design feature in its own right.
Tape, Braid, Fringe, Tassels and More
Different types of trim create very different effects.
Decorative tape and braid tend to create a cleaner, more tailored look and work beautifully on draperies, Roman shades, pillows, upholstery, and bedding.
Fringe trim introduces texture and movement. From delicate cut fringe to dramatic bullion fringe, it can soften the edges of pillows, ottomans, curtains, and upholstered furniture.
Tassels and tiebacks bring another layer of ornamentation and are particularly beautiful with custom drapery.
Cord and gimp trim provide a refined way to finish seams and edges, while embroidered and beaded trims introduce additional pattern, craftsmanship, and dimensional detail.
There is no single way to use passementerie. That versatility is precisely what makes it such a valuable decorating tool.
Specialty Luxury Passementerie
In addition to the designer trims available to shop directly on our website, The WorkRoom also offers access to three exceptional specialty trim houses whose complete collections are available by request.
Houlès Trimmings
For more than a century, Houlès has been associated with French decorative arts and sophisticated passementerie. The collection encompasses borders, tapes, braids, fringes, cords, gimps, tiebacks, and specialty trimmings created for both classic and contemporary interiors.
Houlès is particularly beautiful when a project calls for a trim that feels refined rather than overly decorative. Its thoughtful use of color, proportion, and texture makes the collection easy to layer with luxury fabrics from both European and American textile houses.
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James Hare Trimmings
British textile house James Hare is known for its luxurious silks and understated approach to design. Its trim collection follows the same philosophy, with elegant tapes, braids, borders, cords, fringes, and other passementerie designed to complement refined interiors.
James Hare is an especially appealing choice when the goal is subtle luxury—a beautiful finishing detail that enhances the fabric without dominating it.
The complete James Hare trim collection is available through The WorkRoom by request.
Samuel & Sons Trimmings
Few names are more closely associated with luxury trim and passementerie than Samuel & Sons.
The collection spans decorative tapes, borders, fringes, cords, gimps, braids, tassels, tiebacks, bullion, and specialty trims for both traditional and contemporary interiors. The WorkRoom offers access to the complete Samuel & Sons collection by special order, including styles and colorways that are not displayed for direct online purchase.
From subtle upholstery details to elaborate custom window treatments, Samuel & Sons remains one of the industry's most important resources for designers who want truly distinctive finishing touches.
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Why Trim Makes an Interior Feel Custom
Luxury interiors rarely rely on a single fabric or pattern. They are built through layers.
Trim creates another opportunity to introduce those layers without overwhelming a room.
A contrast border can connect a drapery fabric to the color of an upholstered chair. A coordinating cord can echo a shade elsewhere in the room. A tassel or fringe can introduce movement and softness against a structured fabric.
These details help individual furnishings relate to one another and give an interior the collected, intentional quality associated with custom design.
And sometimes the most effective trim is barely noticeable.
A narrow tonal tape or beautifully finished cord may not immediately call attention to itself, yet the room would feel less complete without it.
Discover Designer Trims at The WorkRoom
Whether you're searching for upholstery trim, drapery trim, pillow trim, decorative tape, braid, fringe, tassels, cord, gimp, borders, or luxury passementerie, The WorkRoom offers an exceptional range of designer options for finishing a room beautifully.
Browse our online trim collection from leading textile houses, or contact us for assistance sourcing specialty trimmings from Houlès, James Hare, and Samuel & Sons.
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Because in a beautifully designed interior, the finishing touch is never an afterthought.
