BRITISH TEXTILE DISCOVERY
Fabrics From Seaweed
WIDESPREAD USE POSSIBLE (Received November .15, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 14. Professor J. B. Speakman, Leeds University, has announced a textile discovery by which seaweed can be converted into attractive rubrics for stockings, underwear, curtains, and other articles. The discovery is the result ot two years of experiments. When seaweed is transformed into viscous fibres it can be treated for manufacture similarly to rayon. According to Professor Speaktuttn. fireproof seaweed fabrics can be made up for the same purposes as ordinary rayon, but they are cheaper. Woodpulp for ra.Von is increasingly difficult to obtain, but seaweed is abundant. Four hundred thousand tons a year is collected in the Hebrides alone. He added that experimental fabrics produced in Leeds were not only fireproof but: capable of dyeing in 41 shades. Seaweed fibre woven with silk, wool or cotton, resulted in attractive materials capable of many practical uses. .
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 12
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152BRITISH TEXTILE DISCOVERY Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 12
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