Category: fibre characteristics
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Elder
The photo is of a page from The National Geographic from an issue around the theme of wool. It is a great comparison of the different fibres – and gives a really excellent look at what a single fibre of the main different types of natural fibres look like. Why is this important? Well,…
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Keep On, Keeping On
A local friend phoned this morning. We haven’t spoken for a while (last year?) so it was pleasant to catch up a bit. She advised me that her raspberry bushes were producing well, and I offered a couple tea towels for the fresh fish she and her husband caught and a bowl of fresh…
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Flax vs Cotton
Fabric Science 7th edition page 23 cotton (left) and flax (right) Textile Science 2nd edition page 51 flax A while ago I was reading an article about a new discovery that placed humans working with fibres back even further than we thought previously. Textiles tend to degrade and discoveries were rare, or were dismissed…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…