Stockings From Seaweed?
" SILK stockings made trom seaweed sounds a good conjuring trick," said F. L. Stevens in a Home Service talk on glass silk, trom the BBC recently. "And, of course, it isn’t a trick at all; it’s the kind of discovery that comes trom careful and steady work in the laboratory. When you realise that, every year, 400,000 tons of seaweed are picked up from the Hebrides alone, well, you can see here’s'a supply of good raw material on our doorsteps; very useful when one of our big problems is to save as much shipping space as possible, At a demonstration of this new textile, a piece of it was soaked in. petrol and set alight. The petrol burned away leaving the fabric quite unharmed,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 41
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127Stockings From Seaweed? New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 118, 26 September 1941, Page 41
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