{"id":642,"date":"2015-03-18T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:10:00","slug":"blog-the-history-of-the-roller-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insyncsolar.com\/Staging\/blog\/blog-the-history-of-the-roller-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Roller Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Scotch Holland Roller Shades&nbsp;originated in the early 1700s. They were made from Holland linen, which came from the Netherlands. The fabric was first produced in Glasgow, Scotland, by James Louis Robertson and John King, hence the name Scotch Holland. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insyncsolar.com\/Staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ScreenShot2015-03-18at11.11.23AM.png\" alt=\"History of Roller Shade\" style=\"margin: 10px auto; display: block;\" title=\"History of Roller Shade\"><br \/>The first roller shade made from Scotch Holland linen did not have a spring mechanism. Instead, when the blind was closed, the fabric lay in folds on the windowsill. To open the blind, you had to pull on a cord, which was attached to a top rod. To secure the open blind, you wound the cord around a cleat.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insyncsolar.com\/Staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/victorian-england-factory.jpg\" alt=\"History of Roller Shade\" style=\"display: block; margin: 10px auto;\" title=\"History of Roller Shade\">In 1864, Stewart Hartshorn patented the first spring roller design using a ratchet and gravity pawl. This spring roller window shade was the forerunner of today\u2019s roller shades as it used a spring mechanism to allow fabric to be rolled up or down. The spring roller window shade became very popular in America and several other production plants were opened in the early twentieth century. Below is a drawing of the spring roller and to the right is the crank Star Shade Cutting Machine from the 1920\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insyncsolar.com\/Staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ScreenShot2015-03-18at11.09.43AM.png\" alt=\"ScreenShot2015-03-18at11.09.43AM\" style=\"display: block; margin: 10px auto;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">{{cta(&#8216;7fc41619-393a-44f3-bfac-65f105d8a90e&#8217;)}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Scotch Holland Roller Shades&nbsp;originated in the early 1700s. They were made from Holland linen, which came from the Netherlands. The fabric was first produced in Glasgow, Scotland, by James Louis Robertson and John King, hence the name Scotch Holland. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insyncsolar.com\/Staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ScreenShot2015-03-18at11.11.23AM.png\" alt=\"History of Roller Shade\" style=\"margin: 10px auto; display: block;\" title=\"History of Roller Shade\"><br \/>The first roller shade made from Scotch Holland linen did not have a spring mechanism. Instead, when the blind was closed, the fabric lay in folds on the windowsill. To open the blind, you had to pull on a cord, which was attached to a top rod. To secure the open blind, you wound the cord around a cleat.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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