HEALTHY CLOTHES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 10

HEALTHY CLOTHES

Striking results have already arisen from tests of the health value of wool, cotton, artificial silk, and other textiles which are being made in the Department of Textile Industries at Leeds (England) University, under the auspices of the New Health Society. As a result of preliminary investigations it has been shown that wool and viscose can take up moisture more . efficiently than cotton, and that under similar conditions they can hold moisture for approximately double the length of time that cotton can. The relative figures are:—Wool, 16; viscose, 16; silk, lljl cotton, 8; Celanese, 74; linen, 7. “The research, said Dr. Caleb Williams Saleebv, chairman of the clothing committee of the New Health Society, in an interview, “will cover the hygienic properties of wool, cotton, silk artificial silks, linen, and ramie, and it will include the effects of dves. The fabrics will be submitted to seven distinct tests, covering air-containing and transmitting properties, heat-retaining properties, moistureabsorbing and drving properties, act’on of light on dved and undved fabrics, '.ight-tvansmitting properties, washableness, psychological, ir ritant, and other effects, local and gen eral. So exhaustive are these experiments, for which new scientific apparatus has alreadv been constructed, that they will mean constant research work for a period of probably three years,”