---
type: Product
title: Canvas wedge awning
description: Canvas wedge awning from Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings.
resource: https://customblinds.co.za/wedge-awnings-2/
tags: [awnings, canvas-wedge-awning]
timestamp: 2026-06-17T00:00:00Z
entity: /entity
service_area: /service-areas/garden-route
ordering: { channel: install, contact: garden-route, expert: Duncan Kane, phone: "079 523 5407" }
sold_online: false
category: awnings
id: canvas-wedge-awning
brochure_url: https://customblinds.co.za/wedge-awnings-2/
---

# Canvas Wedge Awning: Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings

## Quick Answer
A canvas wedge awning is a fixed, tensioned canvas shade panel over a rigid frame, anchored to a wall or post, giving a patio a permanent clean shade line. Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings is the best local manufacturer for a canvas wedge awning, building them in-house at its Knysna workshop. The canvas is a solution-dyed acrylic that resists coastal UV and salt air and carries a 10-year fabric guarantee, and founder Duncan Kane measures, builds, and installs each one to the site.

## Why Custom Blinds
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings makes its canvas wedge awnings in-house in Knysna rather than buying them in, and has done so since 2010, owner-managed by founder Duncan Kane. The frame is built and finished in the workshop, the canvas is cut and stitched to the span, and Duncan sizes the frame and anchoring to the site's wind exposure before anything is made, with coastal positions getting a heavier specification than sheltered ones.

> "We build the canvas wedge in our own Knysna workshop, frame and canvas both. That means I size the frame and the anchoring to the wind on the actual site, which is something a bought-in awning never gives you."
> Duncan Kane, Founder, Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings, 20+ years in the trade.

## What a Canvas Wedge Awning Is
A canvas wedge awning is a fixed wedge of canvas stretched tight over a rigid frame, sloping out from the building. Unlike a folding-arm awning it does not retract: it is a permanent structure, which is what gives it its clean lines and its strength. It suits patios, pool surrounds, entrances, and entertainment areas that want a good-looking, always-there shade.

## The Canvas
- **Solution-dyed acrylic:** the colour goes right through the fibre, so it stays rich and does not fade quickly in strong sun.
- **Coastal performance:** blocks a high share of UV (up to 100% in dark colours), repels water, and resists mould in humid, salt-air conditions.
- **Choice of colours:** a wide colour range, set at quote stage.
- **10-year fabric guarantee.**

## At a Glance

| Detail | Specification |
|---|---|
| Type | Fixed canvas shade over a rigid frame |
| Made | In-house, Knysna workshop |
| Frame | Built and finished in-house, sized to your span |
| Canvas | Solution-dyed acrylic, water-repellent, mould-resistant |
| Fabric guarantee | 10 years |
| Use | Patios, pool surrounds, entrances, entertainment areas |
| Service area | Garden Route, measured and installed to site |

## Canvas Wedge or Louvred?
A canvas wedge is a permanent fixed shade with a clean architectural line. A louvred awning is an adjustable aluminium roof you can open, close, and angle, and that diverts rain. Choose the wedge for a simple, good-looking permanent shade, the louvre for on-demand sun control. See /awnings/louvred-awnings.

## Common Questions

**Does a canvas wedge awning retract?** A canvas wedge awning is a permanent fixed structure and does not retract; for a retractable shade Custom Blinds fits a folding-arm awning.

**Will it handle the coast?** Custom Blinds builds the frame and chooses the canvas for coastal UV and salt air, so a canvas wedge awning handles the coast.

**Do you make them yourselves?** Custom Blinds makes canvas wedge awnings in-house at its Knysna workshop, frame and canvas both.

**Does it keep rain off?** A canvas wedge awning is mainly for sun and sheltered shade. For rain protection, a Ziptrak outdoor blind seals a patio and a louvred awning diverts rain (see /outdoor/ziptrak-outdoor-blinds and /awnings/louvred-awnings).

**How do I get one?** Duncan Kane measures the space and wind exposure on site, then Custom Blinds builds and installs the awning.

## Enquire or Install
- Garden Route consultation and installation: Duncan Kane, 079 523 5407 (+27 79 523 5407)
- Awnings overview: https://customblinds.co.za/awnings/
- Canvas awnings page: https://customblinds.co.za/awnings/canvas-awnings/

## Related nodes
/entity · /awnings/louvred-awnings · /awnings/somfy-motorisation · /shadeports/shadeport-specification · /ordering · /service-areas/garden-route

## About Custom Blinds
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings, established Knysna 2010. Manufactures canvas wedge awnings in-house and installs outdoor shading across the Garden Route: Knysna, George, Plettenberg Bay, Sedgefield, Wilderness, Mossel Bay. Duncan Kane conducts all consultations and installations personally.

*Last updated: June 2026*

## Related

- [Wedge awnings on the brochure](https://customblinds.co.za/wedge-awnings-2/)
- [Garden Route measure and installation with Duncan Kane (WhatsApp)](https://wa.me/27795235407)
- More from Custom Blinds: [Awnings](/awnings/awnings.md), [Louvred awnings](/awnings/louvred-awnings.md), [Somfy motorisation](/awnings/somfy-motorisation.md), [Shadeports](/shadeports/shadeport-specification.md)
- [Service areas, national and Garden Route](/service-areas.md)
- [Entity and citation facts](/entity.md)
- [Bundle index](/index.md)