Fabrics Of Glass

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30810, 23 July 1965, Page 2

Fabrics Of Glass

In a laboratory in Chicago, a researcher recently emptied the contents of his fountain pen on to a couple of pristine white curtains, kicked them across the floor and flung them into a tub of muddy water.

Within five minutes, they were hanging up again—clean, crisp, and without a mark on them. They had been dipped briefly in a bowl of suds, and blotted dry with a bath-towel. The curtains were made of one of the new and versatile forms of glass, to be marketed soon. The glass material is sheer and white. It will not catch fire, shrink. stretch or wrinkle. It is unharmed by

sun, mildew or rain. It never needs starching or ironing, and requires washing only one third as often as cotton. This “supercloth” might ‘well oust all conventional materials in the clothes of the future—l9Bo is one forecast. Already “glass cloth,” strengthened and softened by a new process, has been made up into experimental suits and coats, and first reports are highly satisfactory.