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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 1988:

The Girl in the

MILK Dress

THINK I'll wear my wooden dress, dear. You

and Bobby can look smart in his new fish clothes.

This sounds like a snatch of conversation either from a film which is trying to show how our ∙early ancestors lived, or from a futuristic picture of the things that we may expect in the years to come.

But actually it la much more like present-day affairs, for the clothes people are wearing to-day, are made from all sorts of unpromla- ing materials.

Some of the materials mentioned In this article are at present being worn only

in countries where the alm is to make as much as possible from home-produced materials.

Yet he would be a bold person who would like to say that within ten years we shan't find them on the market in this country-and even the people who wear them probably won't realise that they are anything out of the ordinary.

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'E'LL start off with wood, which the modern chemist transtorms into rayon or artificial silk.

As an idea of how vast the rayon trade has become, we shall prob- ably make 150,000,000 lb. of artif- cial silk in this country during 1938, and there is a big rayon in- dustry in almost any country you could care to mention.

Artifelat silk is really and truly compound known as cellulose, and wood is built up of cellulose and other materials, only the building into a tree is carried out by the most remarkable chemist- Nature.

Wood, chiefly from spruce and fir trees, is treated with chemicals, and the cellulose is sent on to tho market in the form of thin sheets of what is known as sulphite wood pulp.

There are at least four different ways of handling the pulp to turn it into artificial silk.

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WO outstanding pro- cesses give us Viscosc แnd acetatc rayon, which make up most of our supply of artificial silk.

But the form called nitro-cellu- lose, which goes into explosives, is particularly interesting, as an Eng- lishman, Dr. Hooke, suggested as long ago as 1004, that artificial allk might be made in this form.

In the two big modern rayon processes the wood pulp is dissolved in certain chemicals to give a syrupy liquid. This is then squirted through a number of very fine holes, and the threads which come out fall into a tank full of acid or alkuil to form threads which can be woven into the most beautiful and delicate cloths.

The possibilities of wood becom- ing clothes don't end there, how- ever. Artificial silk can be turned Into material which is much more like wool than silk. If the long continuous threads of rayon are cut into short pleces and these pleces are then twisted up to- gether into a thread, we get what is known as staple Abre.

As a result of continuous ex- periments they are now able to give staple fibre the same "crimp'

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No, she may not be wearing one yet, but scientists have found how to make dresses from wood, and from milk, and they'll look just as nice as the model here.

as wool, and even to imitate the sort of scales, that you can see on wool when you look at it under a microscope.

Wood isn't going to be allowed to have things all its own way. though, as a source of artificial textile fabrics, and in the last year or so big advances have been made in manufacturing wool out of milk,

Here again, milk wool isn't an. entirely now thing, for a process for making milk into a fibre suit- able for weaving was patented in

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Germany about 30 years ago. To all utents and purposes, though, wo look on milk wool as being an Italian invention, and it generally goes under the name of Lanital, which the Italian Inventors gave to it.

The starting point for Lanital is a substance known as casein, which is found chiefly, in skim milk, but which can also bo pre- pared from certain kinds of beans. If you take skim milk and re- 11070 all the butter-milk and

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water the cascin remains. Chemists treat the cascin with certain materials and turn it into a form In which it can, be forced through fine nozzles, just as in the manu- facture of artificial silk.

It is collected in a tank of acid. washed with water to remove any traces of acid, and is then dried before passing on to the manufac- turer to be made up into sults.

N the last few weeks' another new substituto fabric

haa been an- nounced this time by Germany. The source this time is not wood or milk, but fish,

Up to the present, little informa- tion has been given about this pro- cess, but apparently albumen from fish-and we know albumen best ns the material which makes up the white of an egg-is treated by the chemist, turned into a suitable solution, and, once again, formed into threads by forcing it through a series of fine holes.

If this 3h wool is mixed with artificial silk and woven up into cloth, the resulting material is said to be strong, to wear well, and to give clothes which are warmer than similar garments made from rayon. The synthetic material isn't

going to have it all its own way, however, and here is a very short note on some amazing tests that the Russians have carried out recently,

They experimented with special food for the sheep, giving them small doses of a sub- stance called thallium.

With certain doses the sheep grew fleeces which were already coloured, so that there would not be any need to dye the wool. With a change in the dose the wool kept its ordinary colour, but the sheep moulted, and so saved all the trouble of shearing.

This work hasn't gone very far yet, as obviously it isn't like an ordinary chemical process, and in the earliest attempts they found that they got coloured wool, but killed the sheep!

We may well wonder, then, what we shall wear next, for the modern scientist seems able to turn almost anything into something else.

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1 Few women, they say, are good at this branch of knowledge but numbers cannot be divorced from it (11),

7 Disease of which the end is past

(7).

a Fabulous monster (7),

10 Add in this valley

happy (4).

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11 Not a pleasing name for a girl

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13 This

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