This hangs over my classroom door window. When it's lunch time and I want some privacy I untie the ribbon that ties in the middle making it an hour glass shape. I put magnets in the outer seams so that it will hold the covering securely across the window. Oringinally it was for the 'Lock-Down Drills." I didn't want my class or myself to be labeled "Casuality." That is why it is black, with the covering across the window frame it looks like it is just an empty room.