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From: "Jon Whiting" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 6:17 PM
Subject: Hair Cloth Manufacturing
>A local industry in Thurlstone, Yorkshire, in the early 19th century was
>the
> production of 'Hair cloth'. This cloth was apparently used in the chemical
> industry for packing certain chemicals.
>
> Could anyone give me more information on this? What sort of hair was used?
> How was it spun/woven? How large was the industry? Is it still
> manufactured?
>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
in the french, you have the "Feutre" material used to produce hats. Like the
Austrian / bavarian made "Loden" used for winter time, wich is thicker.
So are we thinking about the same kind of stuff ? the "feutre" for hats was
produced by a vacuum system pushing small previously precisely cutted
hairlike materials on the surface of some perforated mold ( or could be a
screen) inside a confined glass covered box and such succion accumulated
those small parts intrically mixed to form a kind of resistant cloth (wich
could be thick or relatively thin as hat users will know: marines or
canadian mounties on the thick side, and christian dior or Italian hats on
the thin side).
was your hair cloth used to pack fragile materials (stored f.i. in flasks or
glass bottles) or directly used with some chemicals?
which ones, then ?
such "feutre" was also excellent when used to filter liquids. You had the
option to fabric any shaped kind of filter, and supposedly hair material can
resist many chemicals.
If more is needed i'll check some old encyclopedias, just call back.
Cheers.
Patrick (Mexico)
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