• Once you've created your window valance, you can add embellishments such as tassels.classic interior image by Paolo Frangiolli from Fotolia.com
  
  Adding a hang scarf to your window treatment is a simple and fast way to give your room major impact. Scarves are most often used for a valance over curtains in coordinating colors. One benefit of scarves is that even when they're used as a valance, the ends drape down the sides of the window to add a new dimension to your treatment.
  
  

Single Drop

• To find how much length you will need for your fabric, measure the width of the window, the length on each side that you want it to hang down to, and then account for a the center drop, usually twice the width of the window. Always account for slightly more fabric so that you don't come up short. Scarf valances are typically sold in 6- and 8-yard lengths. Hang the fabric on either side of the curtain rod and center it. Pull down the middle of the scarf to create the desired length of the drop.
  
  

Double Drop

• This drop requires a bit more effort and a bit more fabric. Attach a curtain hook or holdback at the absolute center of the curtain rod. This step can be skipped if you are hanging the scarf on a rod that has rings you can thread the scarf through at the center. Drape the curtain so that it is held back at the center, and around either side of the rod, with equal lengths of fabric hanging down both sides of the window. Pull the section between the center hook and either side of the rod to create two U shapes that drop equal lengths.
  
  

Intertwined Drape

• Take two scarves of equal length, and gently wrap one end over the other to form soft braids of the two colors. Continue the intertwined effect up and over the curtain rod to form several U shapes of equal drop lengths. At the end of the rod, do a final drape behind the hardware so that equal lengths of fabric fall alongside each side of the window. This will require some practice until you are satisfied with getting a symmetrical treatment.