New Flexible Silk
The production of an extremely soft and elastic silk yarn is now a commercial possibility with the completion of a lengthy series of studies conducted in Japan. This new type of silk yarn, called woolly silk, was developed by assistant Professor Shiro Goto, of the Kyoto University of Industrial Arts and Textile Fibres, after four years of study. At a glance, the new silk yarn looks like a kinky hair but when it is pulled, it stretches to three times its normal length. An experimental piece of doth made of —gk the new silk yam feels like ?. clotil made of extremely t “ ln woollen yarn and is as clastic as rubber.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 2
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114New Flexible Silk Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 2
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