Looking for a rather oddball shower curtain rail, or summat similar.

Something like this ?

if its privacy, why not use a fanfold door on castors?

Or simply an ordinary curtain on a big brass rail secured to a curvy wooden frame?

The orientation is correct and I have looked at this and similar. However the vertical support(s) impede the passage of a single hanging. Thus 2 or more hangings would be required and could leave gap(s). Thanks for replying. Nick.

Thanks. Have looked at fanfold doors on castors. Could perhaps do the job but rather ugly and cumbersome. Also perhaps too...err... clinical. Not sure if a brass rail secured to a curvy wooden frame would do the job but I'll think on it. Certainly food for thought. Nick.

The retail trade has the same need for privacy and several answers:

If you have space, the conventional solution is a fixed cubicle with a curtain door. The edges of the curtain can be covered by returns:

A couple of curtain only solutions:

The second can even be taken down and stored away when not needed

Colin Bignell

I don't know about the rail, but for holding one edge of a curtain back to a wall you might do what I did in a shower enclosure.

Do you know the square-section plastic conduit/channel one can buy intended to allow people to hide electrical cables? I used a length of the sort that has a clip on lid, screwing the U-shaped part to a wall (and since it was in a bathroom then running a small amount of sealant along the point where the channel met the wall). Then the thin shower curtain's edge was placed in the channel and the lid clipped on. Of course it wouldn't work if the curtain material was too thick. Something along those lines might help.

Theatrical curtain track used for perimeter blackout drapes in school halls etc

could be suspended from the pitched ceiling with threaded studding or even chains.

magnets sewn into the side hems will hold the curtains into a reveal created by steel electrical trunking similar to that suggested

Owain

Are you sure? They don't in hospitals around beds, the curtains can be run all the way round from completly one side to completly the other.

Looking at the Croydex site (Rods & Rails> Rail systems > Professional) and the image of the ceiling support I'd say it slips into the "upper" running slot leaving the "lower" running slot clear. Give them a call?

If you think about it you don't want a gap in the middle of a shower curtain either.

"Nick" [snip]

Go to the appropriate suppliers for medical curtain track which is supplied with wall and ceiling suspension and has roller curtain hooks.

The track on mine is the same as used in the (newish) local hospital. I bought it from the same place as the shower thirty years ago. I don't know of any bathroom places that sell it these days.