"I bought nice curtains. Heavy linen. They looked great in the store. At home, they stuck to the rod so badly I needed both hands just to open one panel."
Austin had been a problem-solver his whole life — and when he realized the curtain-sticking problem didn't have a good solution, he started designing one.
The first prototype was printed on a Bambu Lab H2D printer in his garage in Austin, Texas. It was too thick. Too tight. The clips wouldn't slide. He redesigned it. Printed again. Installed it on his own curtains.
That was the moment. One finger, all the way across. He also accidentally solved the pleat problem at the same time — because the clip body was spacing the tabs automatically.
The clips went up in his house. Then in his neighbor's house. Then a friend texted to ask where she could buy them. SilkSlide was born.
Every clip is still printed in Austin, TX. That's not going to change.