ARTIFICIAL WOOL
ROUBAIX TEXTILE FIRMS ACTIVE 0. COMPANIES BEING FORMED LONDON, Tuesday. The Roubaix correspondent of the British United Press says local textile firms are concentrating their attention on two factories where artificial wool is being produced. So far, the manufacture has cost lOd to Is more than natural wool, but when the methods of production have been brought to the highest point of efficiency, it is hoped that the cost will be Is below that of natural wool, also that production will be -steady all the year round. Vegetable fibre similar to that used in papermaking is the basis of the synthetic wool. This is first treated with a bisulphite, then thrown into a soda bath. As it leaves the bath the fibre has the appearance of torn natural wool, but it is allowed to remain some time before undergoing a secret process and treatment with sulphur carbon, which produces a cellulose agglomeration.
The product from the final bath is perfect in its resemblance to natural crude wool. It can .be spun into a continuous thread, cut and carded like wool, and woven into cloth in exactly the same way. Other companies are being formed to exploit the new process.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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201ARTIFICIAL WOOL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9
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