Fabrics and Tape

Shielding fabrics are conductive textiles that attenuate radiofrequency signals — used for window curtains and bed canopies, mobile shielding tents, DIY Faraday builds, EMC test rooms, and as inner liners in clothing or bags. Attenuation is measured in dB at specified frequencies per IEEE Std 299-2006.

Stocked range: Swiss Shield NATURELL (semi-transparent cotton/copper/silver, 40 dB single layer or 55 dB double — Öko-Tex certified, washable — best for window curtains and bed canopies); Shieldex Berlin RS (silver-coated polyamide with polyurethane backing, average 60 dB across 0.2–14 GHz — for EMC bags, tents, gaskets); Shieldex Zell RS (silver/copper/tin metallised, <84 dB at 0.2–2 GHz — for tents, room shielding, conductive PCBs); Mission Darkness TitanRF (copper/nickel composite, 80+ dB across low MHz to 40 GHz, MIL-STD-188-125-2 tested — sold by the metre for custom builds). Edges must overlap and bond for the published attenuation; for low-frequency electric-field shielding the fabric also needs to be earthed via a single MEN-compliant ground point per AS/NZS 3000.