Venetian blind

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A venetian blind factory had been there in the 1970s.

From Washington Post

"I'm actually standing at a window looking out but you're seeing me through a venetian blind," she says of the tapestry, At A Window, VI.

From BBC

A panhandler enters a subway car, and every eye turns to the floor as smoothly as the slats of a venetian blind sliding shut.

From The New Yorker

A car passed slowly outside, its headlights illuminating the bathroom through an open venetian blind.

From The New Yorker

Molly has locks over the wall outlets and the stove knobs, and rubber baby buggy bumpers on the corners of all pieces of furniture, and all the chests of drawers are secured to the walls so Max can’t pull them down on himself while mounting a one-baby expeditionary force to scale them like K2, and Molly has little self-winding spools that take up the slack on venetian blind cords so that Max can’t turn a window sash into a medieval gibbet.

From Washington Post