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Shade Sails – What Are They?

The usage of large pieces of fabric or cloth to provide shade from the sun dates back to Egyptian times. It is recorded that the Romans used large pieces of sail canvas to shade the Coliseum. The sail cloth of the time was rather heavy and inflexible but leant itself remarkably well towards the duty of providing shade. In a lot more recent times a new shade cloth fabric was developed, initially in Australia which was lighter and additional flexible, but still provided a high level of protection from the sun's dangerous UV rays. It was as recently as the Nineties that shade cloth started to be out there on a commercial scale and began to discover acceptance in households as an alternative to parasols or gazebos.

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Posted by Hazel Wig - 2010/03/11 at 1:56 pm

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