Abstract: An awning system wherein a screening material piece is provided at the edge connected with the winding rod with a thickened portion, the winding rod being provided with a longitudinal extending cavity having a narrow portion at the surface of the rod and a wider portion inside the narrow portion, the screening material having its thickened portion received in the wider portion of the cavity and extending away from the cavity through the narrow portion thereof, the cavity being open at at least one end of the rod, and bearing arrangements rotatably supporting the ends of the rod, at least one of the bearing arrangements being formed with a passage having at least the same sectional size as the thickened edge portion of the screening material and being so related to the open end of the cavity that the rod is rotatable to a position in which the thickened edge portion of the screening material piece is in the longitudinal direction of the rod removable from and introducable into the cavity through said passage i