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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 39, 23 September 1867, Page 234

Wooii teom Pine Teees —-The mating of wool from the foliage—if such it may be called- I —of fir woods and pine forests has at length been brought to a satisfactory conclusion. For particulars of the proeess by which the needle-like vegetation is converted into a wooly fibre, we refer to 1 an article “ Wool.from Pine Trees,” published in - Chambers’s Journal in 1852. • It attracted some attention at the time; and then seemed to be forgotten; but in'Austria and Silesia, the experimental- process has grown into one of manufacture. At a factory in Breslau, pine-tree wool is now spun and woven into a kind of flannel, which is largely used in-hospitals, barracks, prisons, in that city and in Vienna, with manifest advantage, for pine-*wool drives away all disagreeable and noxious insects from the localities in which -it is used. ; It can be used as stuffing for chairs, sofas, and mattresses, in the same j way -as horsehair; and some qualities are made into a kind-of cloth, of which garments of many kinds oan- be made.; It is said to be favorable to health as well as to cleanliness. The waste liquor from the pine-vats yields a valuable medicine, and from the waste fibre, gas is manufactured to light the factory.